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November 11th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Sunday, the World Association of Newspaper and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said the team will visit the country in January.
The delegation will reportedly meet with government, opposition figures and media representatives.
“A press freedom mission to the United Kingdom is unprecedented and we cannot underestimate our concern for what is happening,” Vincent Peyregne, the CEO of the Paris based WAN-IFRA, said.
“We are concerned that these actions not only seriously damage the United Kingdom’s historic international reputation… but provide encouragement to non-democratic regimes to justify their own repressive actions,” he said.
The move by the organization came after some British newspapers, including The Guardian, came under fire by the government for publishing leaked documents by US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Liam Fox, the former defense secretary, has pushed for The Guardian newspaper to be prosecuted over its role in disclosing Britain’s spying activities. He has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Alison Saunders, urging her to establish whether the newspaper violated any anti-terrorism laws by publishing reports based on leaked documents by Snowden.
Fox also asked the DPP on how a prosecution against The Guardian could be “initiated” and accused the newspaper’s editor Alan Rusbridger of having “no sense of understanding” about the consequences of the disclosures.
This comes as Rusbridger has been called to give testimony to the House of Commons home affairs select committee next month over the newspaper’s publications of the leaked documents.
British Prime Minister David Cameron indicated on October 28 that the government may take action against newspapers for publishing “damaging” intelligence leaks from Snowden.
Cameron suggested measures such as imposing court injunctions on papers or use of D-notices in order to prevent the publication of documents revealing the spying activities of the National Security Agency (NSA).
The Guardian has published a number of reports based on the leaked documents revealing joint spying practices of UK spying agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and its American counterpart, the NSA.
According to the reports, GCHQ has secretly accessed millions of phone calls and electronic communications, using the NSA’s Tempora program to circumvent UK law.
GCHQ head Sir Ian Lobban has said that Snowden’s revelations have made their job “far, far harder for years to come.”
In June, Snowden leaked two top secret US government spying programs, which revealed that the NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been eavesdropping on millions of American and European phone records and the Internet data from major Internet companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.
The NSA scandal took even broader dimensions when Snowden revealed information about the organization’s espionage activities targeting friendly countries.
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