Police Escalate the British State's War on Independent Journalism

http://original.antiwar.com/cook/2024/10/21/police-escalate-the-british-states-war-on-independent-journalism/
Date Written:  2022-10-22
Publisher:  Antiwar.com
Year Published:  2022
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX25388

The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn't about terrorism – except the UK government's. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britain's collusion in Israel's genocide

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Ten Metropolitan police officers made a dawn raid on the home of investigative journalist Asa Winstanley and seized his electronic devices under the UK's draconian Terrorism Act. A letter from the Met indicates that the associate editor of the Electronic Intifada is being investigated by the force for "encouraging terrorism."

Winstanley is the latest – and most high profile – independent journalist to be targeted by counter-terrorism police in recent weeks. Earlier, Richard Medhurst was arrested at Heathrow airport on returning to the UK from a trip abroad. Then Sarah Wilkinson was arrested and her home ransacked.