A masters student researching terror tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al- Qaeda related material he downloaded has spoken about the “psychological torture” he endured in custody.
Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials were directly relevant to his research, Rizwaan Sabir, 22, was held for nearly a week under the Terrorism Act, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. The student had obtained a copy of the al-Qaeda training manual from a US government website for his research.
The case …