He was questioned over nine hours under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and his laptop, phone, computer games console and memory stick were confiscated by authorities looking for sensitive information relating to national security.
What I am suggesting - a negotiated peace - would be be messy, distasteful and it may stand Lishou Slim no more chance of success now than it did six months ago. It really should not have to be like this. But it may just be a better route to protecting Syria's civilians in the long term than UK military strikes now, however understandable the desire to kick back at a dictator as brutal as Bashar Al-Assad. The international community needs a comprehensive peace plan, not a knee-jerk moral reaction, to end the bloodshed in Syria and protect the people there.Schedule 7 allows the police to detain someone on suspicion of involvement in or knowledge of acts of terrorism.
The ordeal of David Miranda at Heathrow Buy Lishou Fuling on Sunday is a critical moment in the conflict between press freedom and national security. Miranda, the partner of the Guardian's investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald, was detained by security while flying home from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro.