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Police Service of Northern Ireland officers confront U.K. loyalists as they try to force their way into Belfast City Hall in 2012. Police arrested two journalists in relation to allegedly stolen confidential documents about a 1994 massacre. (AP/Peter Morrison)

CPJ demands release of journalists arrested over documents in Northern Ireland

August 31, 2018 12:21 PM EDT

New York, August 31, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on police in the United Kingdom to immediately release producer Trevor Birney and journalist Barry McCaffrey, who were arrested on suspicion of stealing confidential documents today, according to the Belfast Telegraph and other news reports.