Veteran street organiser, activist, and documentary maker Tommy Robinson has been cleared of a charge under British terrorism law over refusing to give police the access code to his mobile phone.

A British judge has acquitted Tommy Robinson, who was being prosecuted under his legal name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, of failing “to provide the PIN access code to your mobile” to a police officer, because the prosecution was unable to prove the detention of Robinson was legally undertaken in the first place.

Robinson had been stopped at the UK border last year while trying to drive to Spain. Detained under terrorism laws, officers demanded his mobile phone, and Robinson refused, stating that he worked as a journalist and had confidential information on the device and had to protect his contacts. I

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