London: Six British journalists are suing Scotland Yard over documents that show the police had them under surveillance for more than a decade.
Britain's National Union of Journalists says a public records request showed extensive surveillance of the six—who include three photographers, a video journalist, an investigative journalist and a reporter—by London's Metropolitan Police stretching back more than a decade.
The lawsuit adds to a drip-drip of public disclosures about British police secretly seizing journalists' telephone records in leak investigations.
Several senior officers have recently acknowledged using anti-terrorism powers to uncover journalists' sources by combing through the records, drawing concern in Parliament and outrage from media groups.
British police declined to comment on the lawsuit announced on Thursday.
