A Muslim British woman has been detained on board a plane while reading a book about Syria, suspected of committing acts of terror.
Faizah Shaheen was taken into custody at Doncaster Airport on her way back from her honeymoon trip to Turkey after being reported by Thomson Airways cabin crew and flight attendants for “suspicious behavior,” which amounted to reading a book on Syrian arts and culture.
“I was completely innocent – I was made to feel like a culprit…, I was queuing at passport control and saw police staring at me. I just got through passport control and then two police officers approached me and took me aside and asked me to show my passport again,” Shaheen said.
“I asked what was going on and they said I had been reported due to a book I was reading and was to be questioned under the Terrorism Act,” she added.
Describing the experience as “hurtful and unpleasant”, the 27-year-old said she had been quizzed by the airport…