A court has ruled that the seizure of journalist Asa Winstanley’s electronic devices in a raid on his home by UK “counter-terrorism” police last year was patently illegal and an attack on the rights of journalists.
A court has ruled that the seizure of journalist Asa Winstanley’s electronic devices in a raid on his home by UK “counter-terrorism” police last year was patently illegal and an attack on the rights of journalists.
Judge Lucraft said: “The Court would be hard-pressed to find a more obviously unlawful order than the one made [by the police] in this case.”
It is known that the police targeted Winstanley over his public posts on Twitter and did so on the directions of “a UK-based counter extremism think tank” – almost certainly one of the Israel lobby groups he has been exposing in his journalism for the past several years.
Winstanley writes: “I have spent the last 15 years reporting in detail on many pro-Israel organisations in the UK — including the Community Security Trust, which has close ties to both to Israeli intelligence agencies and to the British police.”
More details in the next post 
posted by Satish Sharma at
05:11
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