France has threatened three French journalists with potential jail time for using secret documents to reveal the country's involvement in the Yemen civil war.
In a series of reports published in April, investigative journalists from Disclose and Radio France revealed the number of French arms sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Following the publication of the reports in April, Disclose's co-founders Geoffrey Livolsi and Mathias Destal and Radio France journalist Benoît Collombat were asked to attend a hearing at the DSGI headquarters in Paris.
The three journalists refused to reveal their sources after being questioned by the DSGI on the origin of the document, their work and posts on Facebook and Twitter.
The journalists used the hearing to defend press freedom and how it was in the public interest to publish details from the leaked DSGI document.
The law does not cover national security and the journalists could be sentenced under a 2009 French law that considers as an offence the handling of a classified document without clearance or proper authorisation.
Paul Coppin, the head of Reporters Without Border's legal unit, criticised the DSGI for attempting to prosecute the French journalists.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-21/france-threatens-journalists-jail-time-exposing-government-lies-about-yemen
In a series of reports published in April, investigative journalists from Disclose and Radio France revealed the number of French arms sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Following the publication of the reports in April, Disclose's co-founders Geoffrey Livolsi and Mathias Destal and Radio France journalist Benoît Collombat were asked to attend a hearing at the DSGI headquarters in Paris.
The three journalists refused to reveal their sources after being questioned by the DSGI on the origin of the document, their work and posts on Facebook and Twitter.
The journalists used the hearing to defend press freedom and how it was in the public interest to publish details from the leaked DSGI document.
The law does not cover national security and the journalists could be sentenced under a 2009 French law that considers as an offence the handling of a classified document without clearance or proper authorisation.
Paul Coppin, the head of Reporters Without Border's legal unit, criticised the DSGI for attempting to prosecute the French journalists.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-21/france-threatens-journalists-jail-time-exposing-government-lies-about-yemen
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