Recently, American Brittany Pettibone and her boyfriend, Austrian activist Martin Sellner of Génération Identitaire, were detained and imprisoned in London, essentially for holding non-politically correct points of view. According to authorities, Pettibone was detained for wanting to interview activist Tommy Robinson.
Conservative @BrittPettibone & Martin Sellner have been detained ILLEGALLY at the airport in the UK
They are to be deported and banned from the UK.
One of the reason is because she was going to interview Tommy Robinson.
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Tyranny is here
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— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) March 10, 2018
Detained at airport on the basis their speech at Speakers Corner MIGHT upset the Muslim population. And boy oh boy, we can’t allow that to happen in Londonistan now can we? #londonhasfallen #londonistan #FreeBrittany pic.twitter.com/IqDmHcbnGJ
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) March 10, 2018
After three days, they were released and allowed to travel to Vienna, where they met Robinson.
According to Pettibone:
Martin & I were denied entry to the U.K. & held in a detention facility because 1.) I intended to interview “far right leader”, Tommy Robinson. 2.) Because Martin intended to give a speech at Speaker’s Corner which they alleged would “incite tensions between local communities”.
— Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) March 11, 2018
Pettibone added:
This is political discrimination, plain and simple. @Martin_Sellner and I will release a detailed video statement as soon as possible.
— Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) March 11, 2018
Robinson spoke with the couple about their ordeal:
As a final note, this is what happens in a regime without a guaranteed right to free speech, free assembly or freedom of association. In short, this is what the radical left would implement in this country if it could…
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