Article 4GYRN Press Freedom Under Attack: Australian Police Raid Network for Exposing War Crimes in Afghanistan

Press Freedom Under Attack: Australian Police Raid Network for Exposing War Crimes in Afghanistan

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Press freedom groups are sounding the alarm over a pair of police raids on journalists. On Wednesday, Australian Federal Police swept into the headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, reviewing thousands of documents for information about a 2017 report that found Australian special forces soldiers may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan. The raid came one day after police in Melbourne raided the home of Annika Smethurst, a reporter with the Herald Sun newspaper. We speak to Australian professor Joseph Fernandez and Peter Greste, founding director of the Alliance for Journalists' Freedom. Greste was imprisoned for 400 days in 2013 to 2014 while covering the political crisis in Egypt.

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