(2013-08-18) Greenwald Partner Miranda Held For Terror Questioning For9 Hours

David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals. The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual... Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles... While in Berlin, Miranda had visited Laura Poitras, the US film-maker who has also been working on the Edward Snowden (NSA) files with Greenwald and the Guardian. The Guardian paid for Miranda's flights... Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7, which critics say is a curtailment of the right to silence.