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Britain Detains Partner of Journalist Linked To Snowden

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.
Britain Detains Partner of Journalist Linked To Snowden
A British Metropolitan Police Service spokesman had stated a 28-year-old male had been detained at Heathrow airport under provisions of the 2000 Terrorism Act, which gives British border officials the right to question people suspected to be related in preparation or execution of acts of terrorism.

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.
Britain Detains Partner of Journalist Linked To Snowden
Rio de Janeiro-based Greenwald has interviewed Snowden and used 15,000 to 20,000 documents that Snowden passed to him to reveal details of the US National Security Agency's surveillance methods.

"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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