George Galloway on being 'Detained at Gatwick'

 

What happened: On Saturday, Sept. 27, George Galloway (71) and his wife Putri Gayatri Pertiwi were stopped for hours at Gatwick under Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 (the “hostile state activity” power). Police seized devices; no arrests were made. They’d just flown in from Moscow via the Gulf.

Read one way, the Gatwick stop looks less like routine border security and more like a message: fly back from Moscow with sharp views on UK foreign policy and the state can pull you aside, clone your phones, and trawl your contacts without ever alleging a crime. 

Schedule 3 gives officers that power on “hostile activity” grounds without prior suspicion, which critics say turns every dissident, journalist, or inconvenient politician into a data source on demand—devices seized, cloud sessions still authenticated, and entire networks mapped before a lawyer can blink.

  Galloway calls it a fishing expedition; the Met calls it lawful procedure; the effect is the same—hours of questioning, no arrest, but a quiet harvest of communications that can be laundered into other cases through parallel construction. 

The next test is legal: KRW’s push to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal could force disclosures on what was copied, how long it will be kept, and who gets to see it. Until then, the real deterrent isn’t a charge sheet; it’s the knowledge that crossing the wrong geopolitical wires may earn you a suspicion-free strip of your digital life at the border.


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