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# University research falls foul of the Terrorism Act
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/university-research-falls-foul-of-the-terroism-act/
- Published: 2008-05-27T20:05:34.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:40:36.000Z
- Author: ourKingdom editors
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

Dejan Djokic has [an article on the main opendemocracy site](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/a-democracy-of-suspicion) reflecting on the recent arrest under the Terrorism Act of an employee and a postgradaduate at the University of Nottingham for possession of an Al-Quaida handbook. They were released after six days when it was realized they had downloaded the material off a US government website and had been using it for research. Yet one of the men, Hicham Yezza, still faces deportation after living in the UK for thirteen years. The episode reflects a growing climate of suspicion and fear according to Djokic - dangerous not only for academic freedom, but for democracy itself. Read the article [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/a-democracy-of-suspicion).