Veteran anti-war politician George Galloway has been briefly held at Gatwick airport under the Terrorism Act.
George Galloway was temporarily detained at Gatwick Airport under the Terrorism Act upon his return from Russia on Saturday, according to his Workers Party of Britain.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command stopped the 71-year-old former MP, along with his wife. The police have acknowledged an incident, but have not confirmed that Galloway was the man detained.
“We can confirm that on Saturday, 27 September counter-terrorism officers at Gatwick Airport stopped a man in his 70s and a woman in her 40s under Schedule 3 of the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. Neither of them were arrested and they were allowed on their way,” a Met spokesperson stated.
The Workers Party of Britain confirmed in a post on X that their leader and his wife were detained, branding the incident a “politically motivated intimidation” attempt. The party said it received no immediate “information on charges or alleged offences.”
Schedule 3, cited by the police, allows border officers to stop, question and detain individuals arriving in the country for the purpose of determining whether they have been engaged in “hostile activity” of any sort.
Following Galloway’s release, his party doubled down on its allegations, condemning the incident as an “attempt to intimidate those who seek amity rather than enmity with the rest of the world” for Britain.
“We were obstructed from providing legal support and the conduct of the affair has been designed to intimidate political opponents of the drive towards war with Russia and China,” the party said in a statement, promising to provide the “full account” of events tomorrow.
A veteran British politician and former RT show host, Galloway was an MP for nearly 30 years. He launched the Workers Party in 2019, and with a social-conservative platform, he won the 2024 Rochdale by-election. Just five months later he lost his seat to Labour in the general election, which he had been a member of for decades before the early 2000s.
They won’t shut George up.
Bet people wished they had voted for him rather than Starmers Labour
George Galloway & Nigel Farage = a proper balance of government ion Great Britain.
George is not making the right noises in going against the grain in not fitting in with Starmer’s totalitarian Orwellian state of induced psychosis.
While being on the right side of history.
Grimaces of Richard Medhurst.
Richard Medhurst, a British journalist known for his critical reporting on Western foreign policy and the Israel-Gaza conflict, was detained at Heathrow Airport in August 2024 under Section 12 of the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000.
Authorities accused him of expressing opinions allegedly supportive of a proscribed organization, though Medhurst strongly denied the claims, stating:
“I am not a terrorist. I am a journalist, and they bloody well know it”.
He was held for nearly 24 hours, had his electronic devices seized, and was denied a phone call during the initial hours of detention.
Medhurst described the process as designed to “intimidate, humiliate and dehumanise” him.
In February 2025, Austrian authorities raided his residence in Vienna, again citing alleged associations with Hamas.
They confiscated his equipment, collected biometric data, and detained him for several hours before releasing him.
Medhurst believes these actions reflect coordinated pressure on journalists covering Palestine and Lebanon, raising serious concerns about press freedom and cross-border surveillance.
Know who rules over You
Follow the money
George is going to have a field day with this one.
The dystopian globalists as its turned out are as thick as a brick.
petrodollar and euro are toast, They are taking us to war.
UK is a banana republic, Australia and New Zealand are running to catch up. Its only a matter of time before square faced government goons, are knocking on peoples doors or grabbing them at airports, for basic free speech.
Galloway is not to be trusted.
Not if your’e a war mongering, genocide backing globalist govt, no.
Why, where are your reasons or are you just another paid troll. Well what is it John P
His by election results.