{"id":197327,"date":"2008-02-13T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/a-victory-for-civil-rights-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:07:00","slug":"a-victory-for-civil-rights-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/a-victory-for-civil-rights-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victory for Civil Rights in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 Muslim students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/02\/13\/internet_extremism_appeal_victory\/\">had their convictions for perusing Jihadi websites overturned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court declared that, &#8220;Difficult questions of interpretation have been raised in this case by the attempt by the prosecution to use [anti-terrorism law] for a purpose for which it was not intended, &#8230;. We do not consider that it was made plain to the jury [in the original trial] &#8230; that they possessed the extremist material for use in the future to incite the commission of terrorist acts. We doubt whether the evidence supported such a case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not in the US, but I&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Muslim students had their convictions for perusing Jihadi websites overturned. The appeals court declared that, &#8220;Difficult questions of interpretation have been raised in this case by the attempt by the prosecution to use [anti-terrorism law] for a purpose for which it was not intended, &#8230;. We do not consider that it was made plain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,997,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-internet","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}