Guilty of terror offence for not unlocking iPhone
The international director of Cage has been found guilty of a terror offence for refusing to unlock his iPhone and laptop while being detained at Heathrow Airport.Muhammad Rabbani was found guilty of wilfully obstructing a police search under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.He was held under a "sweeping" power, his barrister argued, when he returned from Qatar after attending what he told police was a friend's wedding.After three hours of interrogation Rabbani was placed under arrest after refusing to provide the PIN and password for his devices.Rabbani told the court he had an obligation to protect confidential evidence on his iPhone and MacBook Air from a client of Cage's which regarded serious allegations of torture by "US agents"."It was a case involving the US against an individu...