HELSINKI - THE PROSECUTOR DEMANDS CONDITIONAL IMPRISONMENT FOR THE HS JOURNALISTS AND THE REMOVAL OF THE VIESTIKOEKESKUS ARTICLE - DEFENSE: ALL INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE FROM PUBLIC SOURCES

THE PROSECUTORS demanded a conditional prison sentence of at least one and a half years for Helsingin Sanomat’s journalists.

The journalists are accused of revealing a security secret and attempting to reveal a security secret.

The charge concerns an article published by Helsingin Sanomat in December 2017 about the Finnish Defense Forces’ Communication Test Center. According to the prosecutors’ point of view, the newspaper intended to publish more information considered to be kept secret in follow-up stories.

By Anne Kantola HS, Susanna Reinboth HS