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The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro.
David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals.
The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last under an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.
Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.
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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow[/url]
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Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.[/quote]
Uh, seriously?
What the hell?
Nice to hear the US isn't controlling other nations.
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Terrorism act?
Lol.
Can't even laugh normally. A Lol is much better for this occasion.
It's bullshit how they can get away with stuff like this.
nevermind they were detained by UK authorities what the fuck
[QUOTE=Noss;41884280]This is fucking disgusting and the prime minister should speak up about it.
Shame Cameron is a spineless prick.[/QUOTE]
He'd probably justify it by saying he had porn on his laptop.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;41884136]Nice to hear the US isn't controlling other nations.[/QUOTE]
UK for 52nd State.
[QUOTE=The golden;41884235]Not surprising. US has most of the western world by the balls.[/QUOTE]
we really don't, the government is just going "NEH OUR FREEDOM" and all the other governments are just pissing themselves over nothing and giving into this bullshit
[QUOTE]Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7, which critics say is a curtailment of the right to silence.[/QUOTE]
wtf
how can this even be a thing
also pissing off the media by attacking journalists is probably the dumbest thing you can do in their position
[QUOTE=dass;41884271]Terrorism act?
Lol.
Can't even laugh normally. A Lol is much better for this occasion.
It's bullshit how they can get away with stuff like this.[/QUOTE]I'm waiting for the day when something controversial "happens" and the US is ACTUALLY innocent, but nobody believes them because of shady shit like they've done in the past.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;41884355]UK for 52nd State.[/QUOTE]
Oh hell no.
[editline]19th August 2013[/editline]
Also this is fucking retarded, why are they not allowed lawyers?
I wonder if he was given his Miranda rights before they detained him.
[QUOTE=Solo Wing;41885221]I'm waiting for the day when something controversial "happens" and the US is ACTUALLY innocent, but nobody believes them because of shady shit like they've done in the past.[/QUOTE]
That would be a great summer blockbuster movie.
Actually, I think thats more or less the plot for Modern Warfare 2 :v:
ITS OK TO BE AN ASSHOLE
just label the other person as a SUSPECTED [B]TERRORIST.[/B]
that is just bullying.
[QUOTE=robo126;41886194]What[/QUOTE]
he could have been using call of duty to contact terrorists!!!
[QUOTE=SataniX;41885274]
Also this is fucking retarded, why are they not allowed lawyers?[/QUOTE]
Terrorists don't get rights you bleeding heart!
And don't say "innocent until proven guilty" that sounds arabic to me
[QUOTE=robo126;41886194]What[/QUOTE]
You can store information easily on a console's memory unit.
Terrorism Act 2000 sounds the biggest piece of shit ever, reading on Wikipedia supposedly the stop and search section 44 was deemed illegal by Europe.
It's like they aren't even trying to hide that they have other things that could be really bad for political relations. Forcing others to give them the information they have won't help, it will only steer up more confusion.
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;41886253]You can store information easily on a console's memory unit.[/QUOTE]
Only a [b]TERRORIST[/b] would know that...
No right to have a lawyer and no right to refuse asking any questions. That means you have like no rights left then. It was obvious that they were gonna use terrorism laws for stuff like this, at least to me it was.
And taking his "game console" from him? Sounds like they just wanted to annoy him.
Do you like us yet america we caught this freedom hating scumbag.
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;41891812]Do you like us yet america we caught this freedom hating scumbag.[/QUOTE]
m-maybe this will make a-america san notice me~
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;41891812]Do you like us yet america we caught this freedom hating scumbag.[/QUOTE]
Git offa mah lauwn ya stinkin redcoat!
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;41884355]UK for 52nd State.[/QUOTE]
Don't you mean Fifty-[I]first[/I]?
Or did I fall into a coma and we annexed Canada while I was out?
[QUOTE=Zaravan;41893502]Don't you mean Fifty-[I]first[/I]?
Or did I fall into a coma and we annexed Canada while I was out?[/QUOTE]
Did you miss the big fireworks show in Iraq? They celebrated the annexation back then.
It's been revealed he was carrying secret US documents from Snowden, what this has to do with the UK who knows
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