[DanBC]

The fact that Snowden has to go to Putin's Russia to escape the US and find freedom of speech should make people realise just how weird the situation is and iust how terribly the US and EU have behaved.

The UK detaining the spouse of a journalist for 9 hours, and the courts saying that was fine, was appalling.

[josephlord]

You missed the worst bit, not only did they detain him they did so under terrorism legislation on the basis that the information he might have been carrying might be useful to terrorists.

The fact that the courts backed this interpretation brings all the terrorism legislation into (further?) disrepute.