A rocky case. (Geoffrey Howe tries to stop television stations from airing programs on killing of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar)
Economist (US), The, May, 1988
IN THE space of six days the foreign secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, has tried to stop the screening of two television programmes, one by a commercial channel and one by the BBC. He approached, first, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) and later the chairman of the BBC to protest about the showings of two investigative programmes on the killings of three Irish Republican Army terrorists in Gibraltar by the British army's SAS. Both programmes contain interviews with witnesses who claimed that the terrorists were shot while in the process of surrendering. The government claimed that, if the programmes were shown in Britain, they would prejudice the forthcoming inquest in Gibraltar.
Under the terms of the Broadcasting Act, the job of deciding what should...
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