UK police fabricate evidence against Muslim student

Officers from the professional standards unit of West Midlands police fabricated key elements of the case against the former University of Nottingham student, Rizwaan Sabir, documents have revealed.

The case of the Muslim student revealed that how rampant is Islamophobia within UK universities.

Sabir was snatched by police officers after downloading a manual from a U.S. government website for his research into terrorist tactics for a master’s at the University of Nottingham in 2008.

He was detained under the Terrorism Act and was accused of downloading an al-Qaida training manual for terrorist purposes.

The 27-year-old was released without charge or apology after seven days and six nights in police custody.

The university’s only terrorism expert Rod Thornton condemned the University’s handling of the arrest and treatment of Sabir.

Thornton says that “officers invented claims that he had concerns over the manual which he says are an apparent attempt to justify the arrest and police anti-terror operation, codenamed Minerva”.

“The police were totally unprofessional. After their mistakes they tried to cover them up. I’ve seen some altered police notes, I’ve seen evidence made up. The whole thing seems to be a complete tissue of lies, starting from the cover up of their mistakes in the first place”, added Thornton.

Sabir, now a PhD student at The University of Bath, said, “I have known that the police lied and deceived in order to justify my arrest and treatment and this has now been proven”.

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