They were released over 3 years ago, after over 100 days in jail... They were arrested for photographing a military base, wich is not exactly a public building (and illegal in every country I know of).
This had bred a variety of protester that will stand on the public sidewalk, photographing things, until a cop shows up. The police encounter is recorded in its entirety. Depending on what the cop does, the protester may then sue for rights violations, and typically receives a settlement offer after the judge sees the video, which then gets posted to the Internet to fan your outrage.
Which is still all kinds of fucked up. If you don't want your government facility to be photographed build it underground.
And up until now I thought the case was closed, because there was no intention of espionage, but appereantly I was wrong (see: jkot in the sister-thread).
> If you don't want your government facility to be photographed build it underground.
You comment gave me a thought: What about the people that operate Google Earth? They must be held accountable for espionage in every counry in the world. Now 'that' is fucked up...