Meet Sally

The security services planned the arrest of the journalist with painstaking care. They bugged her contacts and assembled an elite squad to take her down. On 8 May 2007, eight detectives swarmed into her home and seized her address book, mobile, laptops and bank statements. In a simultaneous raid, a second team searched her newspaper office – going through everything from filing cabinets to boxes of Cup-a-Soup by the office kettle… … …I cannot say conclusively why they are prosecuting her, or if she has committed a crime, but I can tell you what her alleged crime is: being a journalist and doing what journalists in free countries do every day. Grauniad

Chilling.

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