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Anti-Zionist academic David Miller detained as Starmer’s war on anti-genocide speech continues (skwawkbox.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What crime is he suspected of and by whom ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Being involved with a proscribed terrorist group, on account of attending the funeral of their leader and putting messages of support on social media. That's in addition to other smoking guns like being paid by Iranian state media.

I'm not sure why you're having difficulty understanding this. Hezbollah is a terrorist group.

And suspected by the police. That's who investigate crime, silly billy. Who were you expecting to be questioning him, Batman?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

You will of course have read the article, and got the bit where it said :

Miller was held for three and a half hours under Section 7, which deprives detained people of their right to silence and privacy despite carrying no assumed suspicion

Can you take us through what happened cognitively, at this point ?

Because it means the police didn’t have to suspect him of anything. And there is nothing that says this did suspect him of anything .

We really need you to nail this bit, before we can explain the concept that “guilt by association “ is not a real thing, at least in English law.

It’s the same legal standard that means if your mom sells crack, you aren’t automatically a crack dealer also.