Journalists arrive at court for hearing into claims they were spied on by police
Journalists Trevor Birney (left) and Barry McCaffrey have arrived at court in London for a hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal into allegations state authorities were involved in unlawful covert surveillance of their work.
In 2018, McCaffrey and Birney were controversially arrested as part of a police investigation into the alleged leaking of a confidential document that appeared in a documentary they made on a Troubles massacre as Loughinisland.
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