Top journalists take Germany’s secret service to court over surveillance
By Jane Whyatt
A group of seven international journalists - including Azerbaijan's award-winning Khadija Ismayilova, Slovenia's Blaz Zgaga and veteran British journalist Richard Norton-Taylor - have joined forces with six trade unions and human rights campaign groups to take the German secret service (BND) to court.
Their joint action at the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe is based on the updated law known as BNDG-Novelle 2016. The journalists argue that it gives sweeping new powers for BND agents to intercept journalists' communications – even if they are foreign journalists operating outside Germany’s national borders.
Hanno Bordert, Managing Director of the investigative journalists' network…
