Separation of powers by three branches is still a key idea in the western world

source:  www.date-hub.com.
 Looks like little bit absurd,
but please, do not laugh.

The best newspapers all around free North world have written the controversy letter to David Cameron inter alia, for one over the detention of the partner of a Guardian journalist.
The group of chief editors are surprised by the recent acts by officials of (british) government

 against our colleagues at the Guardian and deeply concerned that a stout defender of democracy and free debate such as the United Kingdom uses antiterror legislation in order to legalise what amounts to harassment of both the paper and individuals associated with it. Moreover, it is deeply disturbing that the police have now announced a criminal investigation.

We hope this is not to be seen as a step against journalists doing journalism.

Perhaps domestic security must be upheld, it is equally important to protect open public debate,
recall with criticism by the chief editors of Denmark’s Politiken, Finnish Helsingin Sanomat, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and Norway’s Aftenposten signed the open letter, which is also published today on the Guardian’s website.
the UK government’s actions in detaining David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who worked on the Snowden revelations. They confiscated his data and laptop and started a criminal investigation.
David Miranda's detention is a threat to press freedom, has said Bo Lidegaard, editor-in-chief at Politiken.

The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger also said that UK intelligence officials had supervised the destruction of a computer hard drive at the Guardian offices, but that in the digital age that would not affect the paper’s ability to report the information Snowden had passed on.

According to this open letter it is deeply disturbing that the police have now announced a criminal investigation .

We hope this is not to be seen as a step against journalists doing journalism. The implication of these acts may have ramifications far beyond the borders of the UK, undermining the position of the free press throughout the world, 

wrote the editors.

The free press plays a crucial role in this regard, also in situations where information revealed by the press is most inconvenient to governments and the intelligence community.