The police at London’s Luton airport worked through a list of questions. Did Broomfield consider his reporting to be objective? Did he include multiple sources in his work? How did he get paid? What was his opinion about beheadings, and did he ever send anybody a photo of a beheading? “Not answering the questions is a criminal offence, so I complied,” British journalist Matt Broomfield said about the questioning he was subject to in July. His laptop and phone were confiscated and he didn’t receive them back.
UK going full 'murica again. Say it ain’t so
I don’t see how these questions could be relevant, nor confiscating electronics. And I may be showing my Yankee here, but I really do believe everyone has the right to NOT SAY SHIT TO YOU if they don’t want. So “I decline to answer” is perfectly acceptable to every question.
I guarantee I could show this to some people I work with and they’d immediately fire off with “do you WANT biased people to be okay with beheadings to be here?” like that’s some sort of defense or explanation.
I always liked the scene in “Enemy of the State” when will smith’s character is being questioned and he answers with “inappropriate” questions and when one of the guys says “now that is…” “NONE OF MY GODDAMN BUSINESS! YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT. And neither is my relationship yours.”
So they detain him indefenitely without due process. It is the UK we are talking about. The country that had to be told by the UN Special Rapporteur on torture that their treatment of Julian Assange is constituting torture, which they all but ignored.
You cannot expect rights and due process in a politically motivated case in the UK.
