Which country?
It’s just before dawn and you’re getting out of bed, ready to shower, make breakfast and go to work.
Just then, government forces with submachine guns break down your door and forcibly bundle you into a vehicle with blacked out windows. You’re taken to jail on suspicion of a crime – They think you’re a subversive, you might believe things the government says you’re not allowed to, but you’re not allowed to know what.
You’re denied bail and you still don’t know what it is you’re supposed to have done. The government considers the evidence to be secret, such that you can’t see it. Your access to a lawyer is only a few minutes a week, even if he was able to prepare a defence for you, which he’s not allowed to do.
Which country are you in? Iran? Zimbabwe? Maybe Orwell’s fictional 1984 dystopia?
No, you’re in Britain. Manchester, to be specific.
It took senior judges to point out the clear injustice and absurdity of what happened when, to two men from Manchester, this ostensibly western government turned on them.