THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch appeals court has convicted two former intelligence agency staff of leaking state secrets to a journalist about security measures for a visit by the Dalai Lama.
The employees of the General Intelligence and Security Service, a man and a woman, were sentenced Thursday to 16 months and 8 months respectively by The Hague Appeals Court. Their identities were not released, in line with Dutch privacy laws.
Prosecutors had appealed after the two were acquitted by a lower court, which ruled that evidence against them was illegally gathered when the spy agency tapped the phone of the reporter from top-selling daily De Telegraaf in 2009.
Investigators also searched the reporter's home in what De Telegraaf's editor, Sjuul Paradijs, called an attack on the freedom of the press.
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