# Mohammed Hijab suggests UK counter-terror police tried to recruit him as informant

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/mohammed-hijab-suggests-uk-counter-terror-police-tried-to-recruit-him-as-informant/
- Published: 2026-11-06T12:45:36+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T13:39:38+00:00
- Original publisher: Middle East Eye (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mohammed-hijab-suggests-uk-counter-terror-police-tried-recruit-him-informant
- Topics: Trending, UK, Weird & Viral, World

## Key points

- Hijab says police notes included “Doesn’t want to be an informant.”
- He says officers examined more than 10,000 messages.
- The circumstances and the redacted notes remain unclear.

## Summary

British YouTuber Mohammed Hijab says counter-terrorism police tried to recruit him as an informant after detaining him at Gatwick Airport and examining his devices. The claim is based on a line in notes he says were disclosed through a subject access request; the circumstances are unclear, and police had not responded to a request for comment by publication.

Hijab says officers read more than 10,000 messages and returned his phone on 11 September. A letter he shared refers to a Schedule 7 examination at Gatwick on 12 May 2025 and says the retention of his property was being handled under a changed power, while clarifying that this did not necessarily mean he was under criminal investigation. Hijab has separately said he was interviewed under caution in an ongoing investigation relating, in his view, to activism, but provided no evidence for his claim that Israel was trying to interfere with him.

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