The case – which also involves a challenge to the police seizure of computer material related to the US National Security Agency NSAA) contractor Edward Snowden – will now go to the court of appeal.
The Yukos official said the seizure of computer servers "could interfere" with what he called the "industrial activities of the company," including the production and transportation of oil at subsidiaries.
Three high court judges dismissed the initial challenge in 2014, accepting that Miranda's detention and the seizure of computer material was "an indirect interference with press freedom" but justified by legitimate and "very pressing" interests of national security.
Last year three high court judges dismissed the challenge brought by Miranda, accepting that his detention and the seizure of computer material was "an indirect interference with press freedom" but said this was justified by legitimate and "very pressing" interests of national security.
The real penalties are the disruption of business, the cost of lawyers and the seizures of computers and cash — as much as several thousand dollars at a time.
The spokeswoman said: "A second search warrant was executed by the Nauru police force this morning on a Save the Children office in Nauru, involving the seizure of some computers.
ABC News disclosed the seizure of the computer in its "World News Tonight" broadcast this evening, and the seizure was later confirmed by two people briefed on the investigation.
Mr. Trulock, who resigned from the department last year and has been a major critic of the government's handling of the espionage inquiry, said the seizure of the computer drive was an effort to intimidate him into silence.
After a quick search of his room, resulting in the seizure of his computer equipment and paperwork relating to the site, O'Dwyer was taken by the City of London police to his local police station.
But the high court ruled that Miranda's nine-hour detention and the seizure of his computer equipment was lawful because although it was "an indirect interference with press freedom", there was not only compelling but "very pressing" evidence of a risk to national security.
