LONDON: British authorities faced a furor on Monday after they held the partner of a journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose United States (US) mass surveillance programs for almost nine hours under anti-terror laws.

David Miranda—the Brazilian partner of Glenn Greenwald, an American journalist with Britain’s Guardian newspaper—was held on Sunday as he passed through London’s Heathrow Airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro from Berlin.

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