Sarah
Wilkinson is one of two journalists who have recently been arrested for posting
material about the war in Gaza. The other journalist is Richard Medhurst. Both
of them were charged under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and arrested by
counter-terrorism officers for "allegedly
expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed
organization."
Both
of them deny doing so and say they have been targeted by the British police for
reporting on Israel's war in Gaza in an attempt to silence critical voices and
restrict reporting. Medhurst was arrested on a plane while Sarah Wilkinson was
arrested at home by a large group of police officers and taken to a police
station. Sarah says that her house was ransacked and property and money
confiscated. She alleges that the police wouldn't show her a search
warrant and scattered her mother's ashes that were in the loft. She alleges
that she was initially denied access to a solicitor and access to her
medication for Crohn's disease.
Sarah
also alleges that at the police station she was asked to provide personal
details of her Palestinian contacts and their locations. She says that she
refused to do so because she suspected that these details would be passed to
the Israeli’s
At
the police station, she claims that the police asked her why she thought the
Palestinians were better than white people. She told the police this was a
deliberately racist question. She alleges that items that were confiscated from
her home, including her passport, were not listed by the police who she says,
also hid property in her home. Sarah said that her bail conditions are so
restrictive that she's effectively living under house arrest. Is this further evidence of how Britain is
creeping its way into a police state?
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