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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Journalists who were unlawfully spied on have ‘no doubt’ UK reporters are still targeted

Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey
Journalists Trevor Birney (left) and Barry McCaffrey. Birney said: ‘There is no doubt in my mind that there is a dragnet operation in place today.’ Photograph: Lucy North/PA

Two investigative journalists who a tribunal ruled were unlawfully spied on by police have said that they are in “no doubt” reporters continue to be targeted in the UK.

In a landmark judgment, the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) found last week that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Metropolitan police unlawfully carried out covert surveillance on Belfast-based journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey.

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