The arrest of two Northern Irish journalists after they embarrassed authorities by obtaining documents relating to a mass murder “was the kind of operation more associated with a police state than with a liberal democracy”, a court has heard. Their work named alleged murderers and highlighted collusion between the police and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Birney and McCaffrey’s work was used in the film No Stone Unturned, which was directed by the Oscar winner Alex Gibney. The Conservative MP David Davis travelled to Northern Ireland to support the journalists in their legal case. “Press freedom is the most fundamental freedom in modern society because it protects all the other freedoms,” he said outside court.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2019 18:11 UTC