Britain Detains Partner of Journalist Linked To Snowden
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British authorities detained on Sunday the partner of a journalist with close links to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who currently lives in Russia when the country granted him asylum.
David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen and partner of US journalist Glenn Greenwald who writes for Britain's Guardian newspaper, was questioned for nine hours when he was passing through London's Heathrow airport before being released without charge.
Miranda was returning to Brazil from Berlin and was in transit at Heathrow, Greenwald said in a column posted on the Guardian website.
He added that British authorities seized his partner's laptop, cellphone and USB sticks.
"This was obviously designed to send a message of intimidation to those of us working journalistically on reporting on the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ," Greenwald wrote, referring to Britain's Government Communications Headquarters.
Source: News Agencies, edited by website team
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