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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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