6 Dec, 2013
Asians 11 times more likely to be stopped at UK borders, analysis finds – theguardian.com
Fresh concerns that Asian people are more than 11 times more likely than white people to be stopped at British airports and ports and questioned under counter-terrorism powers have been raised by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
A new experimental pattern of analysis of the ethnicity of the 50,000 people a year who are stopped to determine if they are involved in terrorism suggests that stereotyping rather than intelligence may be a key factor in the use of the powers under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
The powers, which were used in August to stop and seize documents from David Miranda, the partner of the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, require no prior suspicion and can only be lawfully used to determine whether an individual is “concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”.
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