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UK version of Miranda law

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    UK version of Miranda law

    "The nine-hour detention at Heathrow Airport of an ex-Guardian journalist's partner has been ruled lawful.

    David Miranda lives with reporter Glenn Greenwald who has written articles about state surveillance based on leaked documents.

    At the High Court, Mr Miranda claimed his detention under anti-terrorism laws was unlawful and breached human rights.

    But judges said it was a "proportionate measure in the circumstances" and in the interests of national security.

    In his judgement, Lord Justice Laws, sitting with Mr Justice Ouseley and Mr Justice Openshaw, said: "Its objective was not only legitimate, but very pressing.""

    BBC News - David Miranda loses detention legal battle




    #2
    Unfortunately Human Rights Act and the European directive it came from allow countries to hold people for national security reasons.

    However torturing them is a no no.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #3
      Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
      However torturing them is a no no.
      Not even waterboarding???

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        #4
        Originally posted by AtW View Post
        "The nine-hour detention at Heathrow Airport of an ex-Guardian journalist's partner has been ruled lawful.
        If I were a guardian journalist (or his boyfriend, cba to remind myself which it is) carrying leaked state secrets through heathrow, I'd probably think a 9 hour interrogation wasn't the worst thing that could happen to me. Look at Assange - he's got himself marooned in some south american embassy for the forseeable future.

        Anyway, he's a big poof so who cares what he thinks.

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          #5
          I've seen enough lefties complaining about this on FB, all it proves is that they live in cloud cookoo land and should probably move to Scotland
          Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

          No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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