David Miranda is appealing a court decision that upheld the legality of his detention while carrying Snowden documents in 2013:
David Miranda, the partner of the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, has launched a fresh appeal challenging the legality of his detention under counter-terrorism powers for nine hours at Heathrow airport in 2013. The hearing at the court of appeal in London is an attempt to overturn an earlier decision by a lower court that holding him under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 was lawful.
Around 60,000 people a year are held in such controversial port stops. The Home Office has argued that border controls exist to check on travellers where there is insufficient information to justify an arrest.
Miranda's first legal challenge was supported by The Guardian. This court of appeal challenge is funded by First Look Media, which publishes the online magazine the Intercept . The organisation said the appeal had been brought to defend freedom of expression and journalists' rights.
When Miranda was stopped in August 2013, he was carrying encrypted files containing journalistic material derived from the US National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, his lawyer told the appeal court.
[...] Last year three high court judges dismissed the challenge brought by Miranda, accepting that his detention and the seizure of computer material was "an indirect interference with press freedom" but said this was justified by legitimate and "very pressing" interests of national security.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Thursday December 10 2015, @05:32PM
Sadly I am sure you would find many people ready to defend the bullet to the head approach, too. It's almost as if people want to be enslaved.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @06:00PM
It's because for some reason they think they will be part of the group that will make the decisions in a statist society.
Protip to the world: If you are reading this, then you will not be making any of those decisions.