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Indymedia server seized
imc-uk-features - 23.01.2009 02:52
On 22 January 2009 an Indymedia server was seized by the Police in the UK. This was probably related to postings about the recent UK SHAC 7 trial.
Police, from Kent UK, had e-mailed imc-uk-contact in the morning requesting that personal information about the judge in the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) trial be removed from the site. However this information had already been quickly removed in line with IMC UK policy. The e-mail also requested information relating to the poster be retained. Indymedia as an open posting news service does not log such information about its sources.
The warrant, as yet not seen by Indymedia, was we believe, specifically for this one server colocated in Manchester which is a mirror of the site. So it can only be concluded that the judge didn’t check the legality and validity of the request to remove it, and that the police wanted to attack the infrastructure within the UK.
Other sites that have been affected as a result of this seizure include London Indymedia, the global Indymedia documentation project server, la Soja Mata – an anti-GM soya campaign focusing on South American development, Transition Sheffield and a Canadian campaign against the 2010 olympics.
 Website: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419838.html
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| Read more about: media vrijheid, repressie & mensenrechten | | supplements | | On journalism integrity | -- - 23.01.2009 04:13
Seeing that Indymedia is a newssite it might argue a source protection clause. Stating that the consequence of one posting should not lead to a general case seeing that this would lead to a legal infringement on the current position of source protection seeing that much of the news (and extra info) is done anonymous. Therefore a case on one posting would carry through into infringement upon the protection of sources which would mean a straight out attack on the requirement of free news gathering in this case the news sources are the postings and the outlet being indymedia. Creating a case which would put out jurisprudence on the obligation of indymedia to reveil the origin of a posting would be a infringement on their means to gather and be a newssource and therefore a attack on freedom of press.
Sounds like a case for the Journalism Federation!
And I remember that some time ago servers of Indymedia had been seized and there was an outcry by journalism federations look up the story..
Oh and good hunting...
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