German Journalists Charged With Treason For Post-Snowden Documents | PirateTimes
German Journalists Charged With Treason For Post-Snowden Documents July 31, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Topic The last time journalists were charged for treason in Germany was the Spiegel affair in 1962. Yesterday the German news site netzpolitik.org (well known and respected for their work reporting on “net-politics”) received a letter from the Federal Attorney General of Germany about investigations of treason. The investigation concerns two of their reporters, Markus Beckedahl and Andre Meister, whom are both accused together with an “unknown” source. “We leaked some internal documents of the secret service of Germany in the spring, documenting that they are building up a mass surveillance …