Media News - Thursday, July 09, 2009

Netherlands: press sector sues state for eavesdropping Telegraaf journalists

De Telegraaf says four of its journalists including chief editor Sjuul Paradijs have been phone-tapped by the AIVD secret service. The newspaper, the biggest in the Netherlands, is now taking the State to court with the support of the entire press sector. According to De Telegraaf, its journalists Jolande van der Graaf and Hans Kuitert have for months been phone-tapped, followed and observed. The telephones of chief editor Sjuul Paradijs and deputy chief editor Joost de Haas have also been tapped. The newspaper is taking the Dutch State to court in a joint action together with the Netherlands Association of Journalists union (NVJ) and the Society of Chief Editors. In a summary injunction in an Amsterdam district court on 16 July, they will demand that the AIVD give an account of the "very far-reaching detection methods" that were used and "immediately desist from the eavesdropping, following and observing of Telegraaf journalists." De Telegraaf, the journalists association and the Dutch chief editors group are demanding that the AIVD destroys all data within five days. For each day that the service fails to comply with this, they are asking the court to impose a fine of EUR 25,000. (NIS News)

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