Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop | Computer Weekly A lawyer representing Hamas in a legal case in the UK is challenging the legality of the seizure of his mobile phone after he was stopped and questioned by police. Welsh police stopped Fahad Ansari’s ...

Lawyer who represented Hamas seeks judicial review and injunction after police seized his work phone containing 98% legally priviliged material
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BAME people about 70% of those held at UK ports under terror laws, data shows Campaigners say logs since 2021 show disproportionate targeting of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds

Racialised people make up about 70% of those held at British ports of entry under counter-terrorism laws, although 41% of terrorism arrests in 2021 were of extreme rightwing suspects (includes comment by Netpol) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti... #Schedule7

The Ghosts of the Worldwide Surveillance Apparatus Show Their Hand Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.

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