Blatant misuse of schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorism Act (UK)

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Detention of Glen Greenwald's partner under terrorism charges at Heathrow airport last week.

 "The 2000 act was not designed, and certainly not presented as a mechanism for trawling through people's private information when they passed through Heathrow between two other non-enemy countries."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-detention-terrorism-law-watchdog

and the American equivalent

https://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_border/