Locking Up Journalists: A Sign of the Times?
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I will never forget the first time I was locked up and interrogated as a journalist. I would go through it more than once in my career, but the first time was the hardest and it affected the rest of my life – not just in how I felt about my work, but my overall sense of security.
I was investigating human rights abuses on the Isle of Jersey, a UK Crown dependency and $2 trillion tax shelter. I was detained for questioning, photographed, fingerprinted and then locked in a room under Heathrow Airport for more than 12 hours, with the guards threatening to hold me indefinitely while they shouted expletives and rooted around in my luggage. By no means a fun time and I doubt anyone afterward felt very proud of themselves.
Source Fool.com
