Tommy Robinson says UK police detained him at Heathrow under terrorism law

British right-wing activist Tommy Robinson announced on Saturday that UK police detained him at Heathrow Airport, seizing his phone. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, stated he was held for approximately three hours under the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act.

Robinson's detention follows a week of his extensive online commentary on riots that erupted in Northern Ireland. He had repeatedly posted about violence that swept Belfast after a video circulated showing the stabbing of a man, an attack police are not treating as terrorism. The subsequent rioting targeted homes and businesses of ethnic minorities and foreign residents, which the British minister for the province described as racist thuggery.

Local politicians suggested that far-right agitators online may have helped coordinate or promote the violence. A police spokesperson, without naming Robinson, confirmed that officers stopped a man in his 40s at Heathrow Airport upon his return to Britain from Russia via Turkey. The man was interviewed, and his communication devices were seized before he was released.

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