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Charged under UK terror law for refusing to cough up passwords

RJS (undefined) posted this on Saturday, 20th May 2017, 08:44

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/18/nonprofit_director_charged_terrorism_act_2000/

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British police have charged a man under antiterror laws after he refused to hand over his phone and laptop passwords.

Muhammad Rabbani, international director of CAGE, was arrested at Heathrow in November after declining to unlock his devices, claiming they contained confidential testimony describing torture in Afghanistan as well as information on high-ranking officials. CAGE positions itself as a non-profit organization that represents and supports families affected by the West's TWAT (aka The War Against Terror).

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Schedule 7 was controversial when it was first introduced by the Blair administration. Back then it was claimed by the Labour government that it would be used only in extreme terrorism cases, but since then has been used plenty of times – most notably to hold the partner of Glenn Greenwald over the leaking of the Snowden archives.

Should be interesting.

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