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CAGE Director Convicted of Terror Offense for Refusing to Provide Pin

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Mon Sep 25, 2017 at 04:35:15 PM EST
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Muhammad Rabbani, the Director of CAGE has been convicted in the UK of a terrorism offense for refusing to provide the pin number to cell phone and password to his laptop during a search at Heathrow Airport. He was returning from a wedding in Syria.

He was convicted at Westminster Magistrates' Court of one count of wilfully obstructing a stop-and-search under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act.

... Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act gives officers their right to stop and search people "with or without suspicion".

He was given a conditional discharge and fined. [More...]

He testified at the trial that among the documents on his laptop:

Giving evidence on Monday, he said that he had a large volume of documents relating to a Qatari client allegedly tortured in the US on his devices.

"It was a case involving the US against an individual who was allegedly tortured over the course of 12 or 13 years in US custody," he said.

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    that just makes me sick (none / 0) (#1)
    by ruffian on Mon Sep 25, 2017 at 08:15:14 PM EST
    I'd rather have them use a law to destroy my device altogether if they are the suspicious of it.

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