Laverty, who has won the Palme d’Or for his collaborations with director Ken Loach, was detained by officers in Edinburgh on Monday.

It is understood that Laverty faces a terrorism charge for wearing a T-shirt stating: “Genocide in Palestine time to take action”.

In other cases, the garment has been alleged to be in support of Palestine Action, a protest group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the Labour Government in July.

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    We aren’t happy with the rate of implementing fascism, and the polls show we could next elect a guy who will speed it up even more.

    Dark, dark days in the UK and USA. Here’s hoping for more transatlantic cooperation between those of us opposed to it.

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      Us and Uk are leading the pack, the rest of the westod regimes will follow obediently like a dog.

      Global capital captured all of these regimes and global capital wants the authoritarian from with them at the top.