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Schedule 7

The latest news and comment on schedule 7 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000

April 2024

  • Protesters outside the British Embassy in Paris

    Met police to pay ‘five-figure sum’ to French publisher arrested under anti-terror laws

    Ernest Moret was held en route to a book fair amid fears police are using counter-terrorism powers to target activists

March 2020

  • A Muslim woman at Heathrow’s terminal 5.

    Met police concedes forcing woman to remove hijab at airport was wrong

    Critics say female Muslim travellers have been targeted. An out-of-court settlement suggests they are right

August 2019

  • Passport control at Gatwick airport.

    Detention of Muslims at UK ports and airports 'structural Islamophobia'

    Dossier by Cage attacks ‘suspicionless stops’ under anti-terror laws and highlights minuscule rate of convictions

October 2017

  • Aircraft at Edinburgh airport

    Schedule 7 brings back bad Irish memories of 1970s miscarriages of justice

  • Owen Jones

    If my sister can be drawn into the anti-terror net, imagine the risk to others

    Owen Jones

April 2017

  • An easyJet plane at Luton airport

    Met police investigating Muslim man's wrongful arrest over terrorism

    Innocent youth worker calls on force to apologise after he was detained at Luton airport on way to family holiday in Turkey

August 2016

  • Syrian refugees

    I was held after reading a book on a plane – we need to rethink our terror laws

    Faizah Shaheen
  • Faizah Shaheen

    Sales of Syrian culture anthology soar after woman held for reading it on plane

  • Faizah Shaheen

    What to do when the book police arrive: read on

    AL Kennedy
  • Faizah Shaheen

    British woman held after being seen reading book about Syria on plane

May 2016

  • Fingerprints

    Police deleted biometric profiles of at least 100 potential terror suspects

    Delays and failures by police, border and security services led to fingerprint and DNA records being inadvertently deleted

November 2014

  • A police guard in London. Theresa May said Isis had given 'a renewed sense of purpose' to subversive

    Counter-terrorism and security bill: proposals and pitfalls

    Ministers hope to win cross-party support for bill introducing first major new coercive measures since 2010

May 2014

  • David Miranda

    David Miranda allowed to appeal against ruling on Heathrow detention

    Partner of former Guardian reporter to challenge high court ruling on legality of his detention under counter-terrorism powers

February 2014

  • Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe profile picture

    Muslim man stopped by police was wrongly refused access to solicitor

    High court rules that Abdelrazag Elosta underwent '45 minutes of unlawful questioning' after being held at a London airport
  • David Miranda

    David Miranda detention at Heathrow airport was lawful, high court rules

    Detention of former Guardian journalist's partner was justified by 'very pressing' interests of national security, judges say
  • by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo

    Terrorism and Britons fighting abroad

    Letters: Will the west never learn from its recent disastrous intervention in Libya and earlier 'liberation' of Iraq?

December 2013

  • Passport control at Heathrow airport

    Asian people 11 times more likely to be stopped at UK borders, analysis finds

  • David Miranda

    UK terror law watchdog calls for end to detention at borders without suspicion

November 2013

  • Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed

    The real question about the terror suspect who fled in a burqa: did MI5 bring him here illegally?

  • Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed

    Like Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, I went on the run as a 'terrorist'

    Cerie Bullivant
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