{"id":27068,"date":"2011-09-21T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T09:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27068"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:57:47","slug":"uk-met-police-drop-court-order-against-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27068","title":{"rendered":"UK: Met police drop court order against the Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan police has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/sep\/20\/metropolitan-police-drop-action-guardian\">backed down<\/a> from its threat to use the Official Secrets Act to force Guardian journalists to reveal sources in the phone-hacking scandal investigation. The Met&#8217;s Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Mark Simmons, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/sep\/21\/met-officer-force-guardian-sources\">admitted<\/a> that the attempt was &#8220;not appropriate.&#8221;\u00a0Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian welcomed the withdrawal of the &#8220;ill-judged order&#8221;, and said that &#8220;threatening reporters with the Official Secrets Act was a sinister new device to get round the protection of journalists&#8217; confidential sources.&#8221;\u00a0Index <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/09\/index-condemns-outrageous-abuse-of-power-by-metropolitan-police-in-phone-hacking-investigation\/\">condemned<\/a> the efforts on Friday, and Chief Executive John Kampfner said that the move was &#8220;shocking&#8221; and &#8220;a direct attack on a free press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan police has backed down from its threat to use the Official Secrets Act to force Guardian journalists to reveal sources in the phone-hacking scandal investigation. The Met&#8217;s Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Mark Simmons, admitted that the attempt was &#8220;not appropriate.&#8221;\u00a0Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian welcomed the withdrawal of the &#8220;ill-judged order&#8221;, and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[457,175,727,2469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79164,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27068\/revisions\/79164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}