Finland Charges Journalists With Disclosing Defense Secrets
A Helsingin Sanomat newspaper poster in Helsinki, in 2018. Finland is ranked world’s number 2 for freedom of the press.
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Finland, ranked world’s number 2 for freedom of the press, is pressing charges against three journalists for disclosure of a national secret.
Two investigative reporters and their supervisor at the Nordic country’s biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat face a prison sentence of as much as four years for the treasonable offense after the deputy prosecutor general filed charges on Friday. All three journalists deny the charges.