Rights group wants answers over UK leaks reaction
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In an unusual warning, Europe's top human rights organization said Wednesday that Britain's reaction to the exposure of the United States' vast international surveillance programs had potentially troubling consequences for free expression.
Using language usually reserved for authoritarian holdouts in Eastern Europe or the Caucuses, the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe asked British authorities to explain why they ordered the destruction of computer equipment held by the Guardian newspaper -- the publication at the center of the revelations -- and the detention of a reporter's partner at London's Heathrow Airport. (AP)
