BZ journalists acquitted of breach of official secrecy

 Two journalists from the Berner Zeitung did not violate official secrecy when they published an internal vote result of the cantonal government in 2004. This was decided by the Bernese High Court. According to SDA, it came to the conclusion that freedom of opinion and information was more important in this case than the state's interest in keeping the voting behavior secret. It therefore overturned the conviction of a single criminal judge from 2005 and upheld the journalists' appeal. The single judge had found the journalists guilty, but did not impose a sentence. The vote in the cantonal council concerned the question of whether the Bernese government should submit a counter-proposal to the tax reduction initiative of the business associations. The two journalists made it public that the two SP and FDP representatives had voted against it.