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Terror-related conviction for Cage director is ‘unsafe,’ High Court hears
People pray outside Westminster Magistrates Court in September 2017, where the director of campaign group Cage Muhammad Rabbani was charged with obstructing or frustrating an examination under counter-terrorism stop-and-search powers
THE terror-related conviction of the international director of advocacy group Cage under anti-terror legislation is “unsafe,” the High Court heard today.
Muhammed Rabbani was stopped at Heathrow airport under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 on his return from Qatar in November 2016 while in possession of documents detailing the torture of Ali al-Marri by FBI agents.
After refusing to provide the passwords to his electronic devices, Mr Rabanni was charged and ultimately convicted of wilful obstruction of a search under the Terrorism Act, for which he received a 12-month conditional discharge.
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