Northern Ireland police unlawfully put reporters under surveillance, tribunal rules

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Northern Ireland's police force unlawfully placed two investigative journalists under surveillance to try and find out their source, a London tribunal ruled on Tuesday. Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey sued the Police Service of Northern Ireland after their homes and offices were raided and they were arrested over a documentary that alleged police collusion in the 1994 murder of six Catholic soccer fans. The 2017 documentary "No Stone Unturned" named a Protestant paramilitary gunman it said police believed had shot six fans in one of the most notorious episodes of Northern Ireland's "Troubles".

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