The Ministry of Defence has just told us that it has lifted its blacklisting of us.
The MOD has now said it “will deal with all outlets, including Declassified, with fairness and impartiality”.
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The MOD has now said it “will deal with all outlets, including Declassified, with fairness and impartiality”.
See thread
The UK government has also formally responded to the Media Alert issued by the Council of Europe on our blacklisting.
The government told the COE: “The Ministry of Defence was wrong not to provide a comment” to Declassified UK.
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The government told the COE: “The Ministry of Defence was wrong not to provide a comment” to Declassified UK.
rb.gy/bbdt9c
The MOD’s lifting of our blacklisting follows the announcement by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace that he has ordered an “independent review”. The MOD told our lawyers @LeighDay_Law it was “wrong” not to give a comment to us and that “we apologise for this”. rb.gy/u9vwml
Thanks to all those people who took action over, and were concerned about, our blacklisting, which raised a broader issue of how public officials deal with journalists critically scrutinising government policies. We'll continue investigating issues the traditional media are not.
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