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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Zoe Tidman

Attorney General wins bid for injunction to block BBC from identifying ‘MI5 informant’

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The attorney general has succesfully blocked the BBC from airing a programme that would identify a “dangerous extremist and misogynist” who is allegedly an MI5 informant.

The ruling means the show can be broadcast, but only in a way where the alleged covert human intelligence source (Chis) is not identifiable.

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