Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook
“The UK government and police – the British state – made clear on Friday they are waging a war of intimidation against the country’s independent journalists in a desperate attempt to silence them. Ten Metropolitan police officers made a dawn raid on the home of investigative journalist Asa Winstanley and seized his electronic devices under the UK’s draconian Terrorism Act. A letter from the Met indicates that the associate editor of the Electronic Intifada is being investigated by the force for ‘encouraging terrorism.’ Winstanley is the latest – and most high profile – independent journalist to be targeted by counter-terrorism police in recent weeks.” (10/22/24)