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George Galloway and wife detained 'for hours' by counter terror police
George Galloway has said he and his wife were held by counter terror police for several hours at a London airport before being released without charge on Saturday.
Mr Galloway and his wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, were allowed on their way after being stopped under the terrorism act, the Metropolitan Police said. The former MP, 71, said he had his phone and laptop confiscated at Gatwick Airport, claiming officers stopped him "for no reason at all" other than to "gain access to our communications".
Reports said the couple had returned to the UK from Moscow via Abu Dhabi. Mr Galloway detailed the incident in the introduction to Sunday's edition of his online broadcast Mother Of All Talkshows.
"Not a single effort was made to show cause for having detained me and her with armed officers in public in an English airport," he said. Addressing viewers, he continued: "If they can arrest me under the terrorism act at an English airport, what hope have you got?" Officers questions ranged "far and wide, right down to Gayatri's famous fingernail painted in the Palestinian colours.
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