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The partner of the Guardian journalist behind a series of stories on US surveillance tactics was detained for almost nine hours on Sunday at London Heathrow Airport under British anti-terror legislation.
Metropolitan Police confirmed that David Miranda, husband of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was held up as he passed through the airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro from Berlin.
“A 28-year-old man was detained at Heathrow Airport under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000,” said a police spokesman.
“He was not arrested. He was subsequently released,” he added.

The Brazilian government said it had objected to the detention of one of its citizens and expressed “grave concern” about steps taken by the British authorities that led to Miranda being “held incommunicado” at the airport.
A statement from the foreign ministry in Brasilia said its embassy in London contacted British officials prior to Miranda’s release and that Brazil would also be seeking an explanation from US officials about the incident.
Greenwald analysed and published information on documents released by former US security operative Edward Snowden, which revealed mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
Some of Miranda’s electronic equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles was confiscated, according to the Guardian.

	David’s detention was unlawful and inexcusable

	Widney Brown, Amnesty International
“We were dismayed that the partner of a Guardian journalist who has been writing about the security services was detained for nearly nine hours while passing through Heathrow airport,” said a spokesman for the paper.
“We are urgently seeking clarification from the British authorities.”
Greenwald later wrote an article on the Guardian website in which he said he had received an early morning phone call regarding Miranda from someone identifying themselves as a security official at Heathrow.
“The security official told me that they had the right to detain him for up to nine hours in order to question him, at which point they could either arrest and charge him or ask a court to extend the question time,” he stated.
“The official - who refused to give his name but would only identify himself by his number: 203654 - said David was not allowed to have a lawyer present, nor would they allow me to talk to him.”
Greenwald, who called the Guardian after the phone call, wrote that the security officials “spent their time interrogating” Miranda about the NSA reporting which he and other contributors to the newspaper are doing.
Rights group Amnesty International, meanwhile, said Miranda was “clearly a victim of unwarranted revenge tactics.”
“It is utterly improbable that David Michael Miranda, a Brazilian national transiting through London, was detained at random, given the role his husband has played in revealing the truth about the unlawful nature of NSA surveillance,” said Widney Brown, senior director of international law and policy at Amnesty.
“David’s detention was unlawful and inexcusable. He was detained under a law that violates any principle of fairness and his detention shows how the law can be abused for petty vindictive reasons,” he added.
Former NSA contractor Snowden received asylum in Russia on August 1, after spending more than five weeks stranded in a Moscow airport avoiding extradition to the United States.
He is wanted by Washington on espionage charges linked to his media disclosures about the secret details of US surveillance programs.
Miranda’s detention sparked a furore on Twitter, with several prominent British voices weighing in.
“Holy CRAP - what is our government up to?” the actor Stephen Fry wrote on the microblogging website, attaching a link to Greenwald’s Guardian article about Miranda’s detention.


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Husband of NSA leaks journalist detained under anti-terror legislation


Metropolitan Police confirmed that David Miranda, husband of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 as he passed through the airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro from Berlin.


Partner of Snowden journalist detained at London’s Heathrow for 9 hours

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