Greenwald charges are `existential threat´ to journalism in Brazil, says Edward Snowden
(The Guardian Brazil)

Prosecutors´ decision to charge US journalist with cybercrimes decried as abuse of powerPress and internet freedom advocates - including Edward Snowden - have criticised a decision by Brazilian federal prosecutors to charge the journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes as a blatant abuse of power and an existential threat to investigative reporting in the country.Prosecutors claimed on Tuesday that Greenwald, 52, `helped, encouraged and guided` a group of hackers who obtained phone messages between key figures in a sweeping Brazilian anti-corruption investigation. Related: Brazil`s charges against Glenn Greenwald reek of authoritarianism | Trevor Timm Continue reading...