Lawyer who brought Hamas case claims he was unlawfully detained by police

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Lawyer who brought Hamas case claims he was unlawfully detained by police

Fahad Ansari launches legal action against UK home secretary after his phone is seized at Holyhead port

A lawyer who filed Hamas’s challenge to proscription claims he was unlawfully detained under the Terrorism Act, with his phone containing legally privileged information examined because of his client.

Fahad Ansari, who issued legal proceedings on Wednesday against the home secretary and the chief constable of north Wales police, was stopped by officers at the port of Holyhead on 6 August as he returned from a family holiday in Ireland with his wife and four children.

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