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Heathrow

Former hamlet in Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, site of Heathrow Airport

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Dec 12, 2025
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What are notable UK cases where people were arrested for tweets and what were the legal outcomes?

UK police have increasingly arrested people over social-media posts, with reporting that forces made “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) for offensive online communications cited...

Dec 14, 2025
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Graham Linehan offensive tweet

Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow in September 2025 on suspicion of inciting violence over a set of X posts that included the line, “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is c...

Jan 2, 2026

are people actually getting arrested in uk for harmless social media posts

Yes — police in the UK are arresting people over social media activity, and recent reporting and parliamentary records show thousands of such arrests a year, but the raw numbers do not by themselves p...

Oct 3, 2025

What were the specific cybercrimes allegedly committed by those arrested in the UK?

Two recent UK arrests are linked to alleged large-scale cybercrime: two teenagers, Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers, were detained over an August 2024 attack on Transport for London and broader activity...