British authorities recently paid a graduate student £20,000 in damages, after police arrested and held him for seven days for downloading an al Qaeda training manual as part of his university research into terrorist tactics; in 2008, Rizwaan Sabir, a graduate student at the University of Nottingham was detained by police under the Terrorism Act for downloading material for illegal use; police held Sabir in custody for seven days without charging him or issuing an apology; the £20,000 comes from an out of court settlement, in which Nottingham Police agreed to pay him to avoid going to trial; Sabir is currently a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde studying domestic UK counterterrorism policy