{"id":459685,"date":"2025-09-29T05:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459685\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:58:18","slug":"ex-british-mp-george-galloway-detained-under-uk-terrorism-act-questioned-on-china-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/459685\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-British MP George Galloway detained under UK terrorism act, \u2018questioned on China views\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Former British member of parliament George Galloway has said he was held by counterterror police for nine hours at Gatwick Airport and had his phone and laptop confiscated before being released without charge.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Galloway, 71, said officers stopped him for \u201cno reason at all\u201d other than to \u201cgain access to our communications\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The ex-MP and his wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, were allowed on their way after being stopped on Saturday under the Terrorism Act, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reports said the couple had returned to the UK from Moscow via Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a ranting introduction to his Mother Of All Talk Shows broadcast, Galloway said officers had questioned him about his views on Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Galloway said he had travelled to the UK to give a speech in London at an event expected to be attended by the Chinese ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British member of parliament George Galloway has said he was held by counterterror police for nine hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[521,748,51,1395,1700,393,4884,3749,388,12,1144,391,712,47141,93,53,16,15,978,1764,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-459685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-hong-kong","18":"tag-lifestyle","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-opinion","22":"tag-scotland","23":"tag-south-china-morning-post","24":"tag-sport","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-wales","30":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115286055746899760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}