British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson said he was detained at Heathrow Airport on Saturday and had his phone seized, after a week when he posted heavily online about racist and anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland.
“My phone has been seized by the police,” he wrote. “Please help kick off my legal fund for defence.”
Robinson tweeted repeatedly last week about violence that swept Belfast after a video went viral showing the brutal stabbing of a man, who lost an eye in the attack.
A Sudanese man has been charged with attempted murder. Police have said they are not treating the attack as terrorism.
In the days that followed, rioters targeted homes and businesses owned by ethnic minorities or foreign residents in what Hillary Benn, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, called racist thuggery.
