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UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the protecting-privacy dept.

An anonymous reader quotes The Guardian: The human rights group Cage is preparing to mount a legal challenge to UK anti-terrorism legislation over a refusal to hand over mobile and laptop passwords to border control officials at air terminals, ports and international rail stations... The move comes after its international director, Muhammad Rabbani, a UK citizen, was arrested at Heathrow airport in November for refusing to hand over passwords. Rabbani, 35, has been detained at least 20 times over the past decade when entering the UK, under schedule 7 of terrorism legislation that provides broad search powers, but this was the first time he had been arrested... On previous occasions, when asked for his passwords, he said he had refused and eventually his devices were returned to him and he was allowed to go. But there was a new twist this time: when he refused to reveal his passwords, he was arrested under schedule 7 provisions of the terrorism act and held overnight at Heathrow Polar Park police station before being released on bail. He expects to be charged on Wednesday.
Rabbani "argues that the real objective...is not stopping terrorists entering the UK, but as a tool to build up a huge data bank on thousands of UK citizens." And his position drew support from Jim Killock, executive director of the UK-based Open Rights Group. "Investigations should take place when there is actual suspicion, and the police should be able to justify their actions on that basis, rather than using wide-ranging powers designed for border searches."

5 of 284 comments (clear)

  1. Re:His name gives it away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are no English surnames beginning with Q,..

    There are: Surnames beginning with Q

  2. Re: His name gives it away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Anyone can declare themselves an Imam"

    1. Imam (leader) in Shi'a Islam refers to one of 12 people born over 1000 years ago. Most certainly no one can declare themselves an imam.
    2. The "Imams" you refer to are either Sunni or Wahabbi not Shi'a.
    3. 100% of "Muslim" terrorists are Wahabbi. The leader (Imam) of Daesh (ISIS) for example.

  3. Re: His name gives it away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wrong. Right-wing white supremecists commit most acts of terrorism.

    https://medium.com/p/trump-false-claim-foreign-born-domestic-attacks-54e99b0e11b6

    Don't let the door hit you in the arse on your way out.

  4. Re:Radical atheism does it too! by dunkelfalke · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hitler was a Catholic, Stalin was a Georgian Orthodox seminarist going to become a priest before he changed his mind.
    Checkmate my arse.

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    "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
  5. Re:Cage Group by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Telegraph is not a reliable source of information on this matter. Wikipedia has a much more balanced article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You may not like them, but they are not anything like the Telegraph describes.

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