UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida

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seemingly conducting academic research in an imprisonable offence in the UK these days, especially if you are brown in skin colour


UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida
Posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @09:29PM
from the terrism-is-the-root-password-to-the-academy dept.
D Afifi writes

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/232221

"Two political researchers at the University of Nottingham, in the UK, have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for downloading Al-Qaida material from a US government website. The material was to be used for research in terrorist tactics. There has been a huge public outcry, with university staff planning a march to demonstrate against the attack on academic freedom. Yet, one of the students, an Algerian, is still held in custody under immigration charges and is being fast-tracked for deportation."