Partner of Snowden reporter Greenwald begins legal action

David Miranda, the partner of a journalist who has written reports based on leaks by Edward Snowden, has begun legal action to stop the British authorities inspecting data they seized from him, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Miranda's lawyer Gwendolen Morgan said her client was seeking a judicial review of the legal basis for his detention at London's Heathrow airport on Sunday under anti-terrorism laws and wanted assurances from the authorities that property seized from him would not be examined before this.

Meanwhile, Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted of giving classified US files to WikiLeaks, will be told at 10 am EDT on Wednesday how much of his life will be spent in a military prison, a US Army spokesman said on Tuesday. Manning, a 25-year-old private first class, could face as up to 90 years in prison for giving more than 700,000 classified files, battlefield videos and diplomatic cables to the pro-transparency website.