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Abuse of detention without charge

2013-08-19 15:39:19.014718+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Glenn Greenwald's partner was detained at Heathrow for 9 hours, under Britain's Terrorism Act 2000. As Andrew Sullivan points out, if we were looking for abuse of "terrorism" powers, we just found it.

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-08-19 18:33:55.781509+02 by: Dan Lyke

Yep. They could have done everything they wanted to far more simply than they did, or even gone legitimate and gotten, I don't know, warrants for things; this was just a "nya nya nya because we can" abuse of power.

#Comment Re: made: 2013-08-19 18:13:06.152208+02 by: Jack William Bell [edit history]

It was pretty clear that what they really wanted was any electronic devices and data storage he was carrying. The keeping him locked up for 9 hours thing was just icing on the cake.