BERLIN — Two German journalists are demanding that authorities drop a treason probe against them in the wake of officials sacking the country's top prosecutor for his role in what has become a national scandal about privacy, government secrets and press freedom.

"There's no information about when this crappy proceeding is going to be scrapped — there is no talk of that," said Markus Beckedahl, editor-in-chief of the Netzpolitik blog, speaking this week before a packed crowd in Berlin's cyperpunk-esque hacker space, c-base.

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