[Wytwwww]

Sure that's obvious (or not... depending on one's political views), but there must be some legal justification. Or can they put someone in permanent solitary confinement without giving any reason at all in Britain?

I'm reading at some sites that this isn't really true and that he wasn't literally held in a 2x3m cell for 23 hours every day. Although it's not very clear what were the actual conditions.

edit: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2019/11/un-expert-to.... it's very vague and unspecific though..

[lp0_on_fire]

Turns out when governments toss around the words "spy" and "espionage" freely and without regard to their actual definitions they can get away with things like this.

[account42]

> Or can they put someone in permanent solitary confinement without giving any reason at all in Britain?

Well, who is gong to stop them?