British comedian Graham Linehan was arrested at the Heathrow airport, Monday, for three of his X posts, reigniting accusations that the United Kingdom is failing to protect free speech.

Linehan was boarding a flight from Arizona to London when a U.S. official told him he “didn’t have a seat and had to be re-ticketed.” Linehan made another flight to London, and when he stepped off the plane at the Heathrow airport, he was greeted by five armed police officers, who told him he “was under arrest for three tweets,” as he recounted in a Substack post .

A van took him from the tarmac to the Heathrow police station, where his belt, bag and devices were confiscated. Then he was locked in a small prison cell. Linehan said, “I kept waking up wondering if it was all actually happening.”

Then Lin

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