Here is a new article I just found about it: https://www.defendevropa.org/2018/heritage-identity/breaking-identitarian-leader-martin-sellner-detained-uk-police-inciting-hatred-tension-local-communities/
Excerpt:
The British chapter of Generation Identity just released a statement saying that Austrian identitarian leader Martin Sellner, accompanied by his girlfriend Brittany Pettibone, has been detained by the airport police in England. The cause of the detention? Apparently, the speech Sellner was supposed to give this Sunday on the topic of free speech would be causing tension among local communities and possibly incite hatred.
Here is the full statement from the British GI chapter:
“Yesterday, Martin Sellner and Brittany Pettibone were detained by the UK Government and effectively declared political dissidents. The government has decided that Martin’s talk about free speech is too dangerous to be heard. Don’t worry, some of our activists will be reading his speech at Speakers’ Corner at noon tomorrow in his stead. We can’t allow either the far left or the government to silence us!”
Here is some more information:
Southern went further by asking if it is now safe at all for people with openly held right-wing opinions like her to travel to England if they risk detention like her friends.
Daring to criticise Islam, a believe system which should be open to criticism like any other, puts you at risk of being put in jail in the UK. When ‘thoughtcrimes’ become punishable, the police state has clearly arrived.
Ask it Britain first leaders Jayda Fransen and Paul Golding, who were recently convicted of stirring up racial hatred for exposing Muslim grooming gangs.
The late Christopher Hitchens warned about these sorts of developments back in 2009 and the detrimental consequences they would lead to by supporting the ridiculous notion of criminalising the made up term of Islamophobia: