Overclassification, the Finnish way cjr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cjr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The ruling was issued in a case revolving around a story published by Helsingin Sanomat in December 2017 about the Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency (VKoeL).
One of the defendants received a fine in relation to the publication of an article about an intelligence centre in 2017, while charges against a third journalist were dismissed.
The verdict in the trial of Finland’s largest newspaper for revealing state secrets in 2017 will be announced by the end of January 2023. Worried about the domestic and international impact of the criminal prosecution of journalists in a country ranked fifth in its World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) monitored the proceedings in Helsinki.
The Helsingin Sanomat Case: Prosecuting Journalists in Finland counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.