'Threat to investigative journalism'
Updated on 19 May 2008
Seventeen leading journalists and civil liberties groups warn against "a serious threat to the future of investigative journalism". More4 News reports.
"This legal action poses a serious threat to the future of investigative journalism".
That's the warning from seventeen leading journalists and civil liberties groups, in a letter to The Times.
What's worrying them is the attempt by Greater Manchester police to seize notebooks from a journalist who's been working with a former Islamist extremist now under arrest.
Nina Teggarty reports.
