Peter Dow is a Scottish scientist and a republican socialist whose legal human rights are cruelly violated by the police and courts in Aberdeen, where he lives. Peter Dow's political defence blog publishes the truth about the wrongful and unjust royalist arrests, prosecutions, convictions and punishments he endures.
(f) not to use the social media platform 'X' previously known as Twitter
(g) not to make reference to any MP, MSP or Lord Advocate in any social media
After a sleepless weekend in police custody and facing the SNP GESTAPO's threat of remand to Saughton (HMP Edinburgh), I accepted (temporarily) the draconian bail conditions offered.
Saturday, 14th March, began with my tweet to the SNP Conference with hashtag #SNP26
Soon 2 plain clothes detectives from Police Scotland were at my flat door insisting on arresting me. They hurried me into locking the flat up and they drove me to Kittybrewster Police Custody Centre after reading another trumped-up charge from their smartphone. On what pretext I can't remember - was it the "John Swinney's Gestapo women of Scotland - the Taliban's useful idiots" video
which had set them off - or was it the
"BASTARD JOHN SWINNEY😡 Afghan girls, same age as Dunblane victims, are sold into marriage under Pakistan's Taliban rule as the SNP GESTAPO arrests and prosecutes me for holding the Pakis to account"
I had my finger prints taken by a fragrant Greek woman police officer, which was nice. I asked for a book to read and was offered a paperback copy of "Bravo Two Zero" by Andy McNab. Reading about very brave men in a much more dangerous situation than police custody was fortifying to my own courage.
Later in the day, a prisoner transport van transported me and my borrowed copy of "Bravo Two Zero" from Aberdeen to Edinburgh. (Annoyingly the prisoner cell light was on a timer and it kept switching itself off and I had to repeatedly remind the van staff to put the cell light back on).
It was dark by the time we arrived at St Leonards Police Station where the cells are not as "luxurious" (sarcasm) as Kittybrewster - no intercom, no basin with trickle of water to wet your hands and no way to flush your own toilet - just a push button "help" light. The dim lighting made reading my paperback very difficult.
There I was imprisoned in spartan conditions through Saturday, all day Sunday until a bigger van took all the St Leonards prisoners to Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday morning. I asked for and was granted a court custody cell to myself which is less stressful for me.
I had an interview with a mental health nurse where I declared myself to her to be "Fit for court".
Late in the afternoon I was handed a bundle of legal papers, told I couldn't keep them, but I could read them now.
Just from memory they were seeking an order to remand me to HMP Edinburgh, a letter offering legal advice for those facing a "solemn" procedure (with jury and longer prison sentences) and a letter saying that I didn't have to attend the hearing in April as per my signed undertaking to the police of 27th February.
So then I was taken upstairs to the court room where I was asked if I was Alastair Dow?
I told the court that I was Alastair Peter Dow, Bachelor of Science with Honours, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh.
The Sheriff wasn't interested in my supplementary details and said they didn't normally ask for a plea at this stage (of a solemn procedure presumably) but the matter of bail was addressed at this stage.
I suggested simply being ordained to appear (no additional bail conditions beyond the routine).
The fiscal depute said, "in this case" (a politically-motivated witch-hunt) he was prepared to offer bail with the additional bail conditions to get off X etc (see above).
I told the court "Those bail conditions are acceptable to the defence".
With that the Sheriff granted bail with those conditions and ended the hearing.
Short and sweet because that was the quickest and surest way out of the hell of custody. The legal argy-bargy about bail conditions could wait for another day.
The court staff reclaimed the bundle of legal papers and I was soon a free man.
I urgently bought some mouthwash from a shop on Princes Street because my dental health needed it by then and mouthwash is refused in police or court custody.
Then the bus back to Aberdeen for around 10pm.
I encountered a house-breaker snooping around the hallway of our block of flats, presumably sensing an opportunity with my empty flat over the weekend but when I opened my flat door he went on his way without a word exchanged between us.
That was me safe and sound again after another rough long weekend for a political prisoner in John Swinney's SNP GESTAPO police state.
The video begins playing an inset of an Afghan girl being stoned to death. The background's central image is an AI-generated image dressing in Nazi SS uniform Scotland's First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney MSP and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar MSP in front of the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The left and right sides of the background feature the women who run the police state in Scotland. They are -
Kate Forbes MSP, Deputy First Minister, Dorothy Bain KC, Lord Advocate Ruth Charteris KC, Solicitor General Jo Farrell, Chief Constable of Police Scotland Alison Johnstone MSP, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament Christine Grahame MSP, SNP member of the parliament's corporate body Claire Baker MSP, Labour member of the parliament's corporate body Maggie Chapman MSP, Green member of the parliament's corporate body. Lynsey Hamill, Director of Operations at the Scottish Parliament - operations including the Social Media "Monitoring" (actually GESTAPO censorship) unit.
Then Peter Dow speaks saying -
"An innocent Afghan girl was stoned to death after Pakistan helped the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Hello. I'm Peter Dow from Aberdeen.
SHAME on the EVIL WOMEN AT THE CORE OF JOHN SWINNEY'S GESTAPO which is arresting and prosecuting me to try to stop me saying one word to help the women and girls of Afghanistan - that word being "Paki" meaning "Pakistani".
Swinney's Gestapo claims - 'Ooh, you can't use THAT word - that's "racist", that's "prejudice", that's a "hate crime", that's a "breach of the peace"'.
Well, no, actually, it's not. I'm correctly using the word "Paki" to hold Pakistanis to account for Pakistan's crimes against humanity.
So shame on Kate Forbes, Dorothy Bain, Ruth Charteris, Jo Farrell, Angela Constance, Alison Johnstone, Christine Grahame, Claire Baker, Maggie Chapman and Lynsey Hamill.
Shame on John Swinney and all his Gestapo's men and women, who are a disgrace to Scotland.
The Scots should call off Swinney's Gestapo police state and let me do my feminist duty. Thank you."
Yesterday, Friday 27th February, just after representing myself at a "Defence for the Accused" hearing in Edinburgh Sheriff Court, as I was leaving the courtroom, I was arrested by two officers of Police Scotland and taken to St Leonards police station, where at a recorded interview, I owned up to my harmless, dutiful political posts on X, which they charged me was some sort of "crime" and after 5 hours, they liberated me from custody on condition that I attend another court hearing and that I don't mention someone on social media.
Jo Farrell, Chief Constable of Police Scotland
But my property was NOT "liberated" with me. I can't forgive Chief Constable Jo Farrell's thieving pig bastards for stealing my laptop and smartphone for "evidence" that the prosecution won't ever need to prove the complained-about posts were mine. 😡 I, however, need the laptop which I had in court with me to display digital productions evidence for the defence on the courtroom monitor. So the police seizing of my laptop is police criminality by ATTEMPTING TO DEFEAT THE ENDS OF JUSTICE and CONTEMPT OF COURT.
I also used that laptop for science duties in the service of humanity, so police obstructing science by seizing my laptop is police criminality by a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
Scotland needs a new Chief Constable who will focus on real crime and stop police officers taking their orders from the Scottish Parliament's Gestapo to take political prisoners, crush democracy and commit various other crimes in the process.
I was in custody for about 5 hours and was dropped off at Edinburgh bus station and back to Aberdeen after midnight - long day.
The Scottish Parliament's Gestapo was set up by MSPs of the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body - Jackson Carlaw (Conservative), Maggie Chapman (Greens), Claire Baker (Labour), Alison Johnstone (was Greens now Presiding Officer), Christine Grahame (SNP).
John Swinney (left) and Anas Sarwar (right) in fetching Nazi SS uniform pictured outside the place which inspired their vicious assault on Scottish democracy - Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This Press and Journal story - Aberdeen ‘political activist’ Peter Dow guilty of sending racist tweets - may be hidden behind a paywall so I have taken the liberty of copying and pasting the text below so that everyone can read it free of charge. Text in pink ink is my own blog editorial comment.
Firstly, to insist that my tweets were neither "racist" nor illegal and that Sheriff Wallace has grossly miscarried justice - he caused a mistrial by refusing to hear the defence case in full, he falsely convicted me and he imposed a cruel fine of £740, which will take me 2 years to pay off at £30 per month, which is all I can afford to pay from my Universal Credit social security benefit.
P&J: Aberdeen ‘political activist’ Peter Dow guilty of sending racist tweets
Peter Dow sent a series of racist messages directed at a former First Minister, calling for mosques to be closed and Muslims deported.
They were meant as public political tweets, they were certainly not "racist" and were not intended as private messages to anyone. I have called for mosques to be closed and for imams to be deported but I have opposed a blanket deportation of all Muslims, because as of now my politics is much more selective about which Muslims I would or would not advise to deport, though I have noted that mass-deportation was once the policy of Spain, see Wikipedia Expulsion of the Moriscos and I have defended the human right of freedom to express "deport them all" rhetoric.
By Reporter December 18 2025, 11:30 am
Peter Dow was found guilty following trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Image: DC Thomson
A self-described political activist and terrorism expert has been found guilty of sending racist tweets aimed at the former First Minister Humza Yousaf and others.
Peter Dow had attempted to defend himself in Aberdeen Sheriff Court over a series of messages he posted to the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, last year.
They included calling for Muslims to be deported and branding Humza Yousaf a “P***”.
Not all Muslims. On multiple occasions in the trial I gave evidence that Malala Yousafsai was an example of a Pakistani and a Muslim in this country whom I love and would never wish to deport, so it is a shame that the P&J story misrepresents my defence.
But at Aberdeen Sheriff Court this week, the 65-year-old discovered he had lost the case and was fined £740.
Trial comes to end with guilty verdict
Dow, who previously told the court his interests included politics, science, and “the ladies”, repeatedly maintained his posts were political rhetoric.
He also urged the court to return his Dell desktop computer, which had been seized in the police raid, calling its absence a “crime against humanity” because he could no longer continue his scientific research.
His attempts to explain why he was distrustful of Pakistan and its government eventually led Sheriff Ian Wallace to remind Dow that his right to hold certain views was not why he was at court.
The sheriff would later remark it was “unfortunate” that the Edinburgh University degree holder made such explanations the core of his defence.
Former First Minister Humza Yousaf.
In sentencing him, Sheriff Wallace said: “It’s not about whether the accused is entitled to hold or express political views. It’s not about whether he’s entitled to criticise, for example, the politics of the government of Pakistan.
Wallace is a lying bastard as this case is precisely an attempt to stop me expressing my political criticisms of the political policies of certain Pakistani diaspora politicians like Humza Yousaf and Kaukab Stewart in their treacherous support of Islam, Islamic terrorism and in particular the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its lying officials, from consular diplomats to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, as Pakistan secretly supports Islamic terrorism.
“It’s unfortunate he’s made this the focus of his approach to this case.
No, it's unfortunate I was stuck with such an incompetent and malicious sheriff.
“This case is about whether the accused has committed the offence libelled on the specific occasions libelled.”
Sheriff Wallace went on to say that he was “satisfied” that Dow had behaved criminally by sending racially aggravated messages to Mr Yousaf and Kaukab Stewart.
There is nothing "racially aggravated" about the use of the word "Paki" as an abbreviation for "Pakistani", as I use the word.
He additionally found him guilty of a breach of the peace for a message he sent describing politicians as “surrender monkeys” alongside a hashtag which included the word P***.
I peacefully typed on a keyboard from my own home. I caused no "breach of the peace". The police smashing my door down, arresting me, ransacking my home, stealing my computer was the only "breach of the peace" and it is shameful to hide that truth.
Peter Dow led his own defence
The trial itself had been a protracted affair with Dow attempting to introduce video evidence of crimes committed by Muslims to the court, including a clip of what he said was a woman being stoned to death
and footage of the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
One witness statement (David Fernandez) said he complained to the police because I was making comments against Muslims. The defence was entitled to rebut the witness statement/testimony and Wallace was wrong to forbid that in full measure.
One of the few clips that he was allowed to play was the introduction to a BBC documentary on Pakistan and its ties to the Taliban, which Dow used to explain why he held his views.
Another clip I was allowed to play was of President Bush using the word "Pakis".
Peter Dow at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Image: DC Thomson
Dow’s inflammatory messages were sent between February and June 2024 from his personal X account. It has about 170 followers.
The postings call for politicians he was at odds with to “f*** off to Gaza”, the deportation of Imams, the closure of mosques, and referred to Mr Yousaf as a “P*** s***-stirrer” alongside what had been described as “deliberately eye-catching” images intended to draw attention.
“This is a judgment that I’ve come to,” Dow said of Pakistan.
“I’m not prejudiced on a racial basis. It’s got nothing to do with race or colour.”
Dow, leading his own evidence, continued by branding Mr Yousaf’s relationship with Pakistan as “naïve” and suggested that the SNP politician was “privy to Pakistan’s secrets”.
This photograph of Yousaf meeting with the Pakistani Prime Minster was shown but my suggestion is that he, the Pakistani Prime Minister, was privy to Pakistan's secrets but that Yousaf was naïve.
He said: “I don’t believe Pakistan has been held properly to account for killing our soldiers – or helping.
“I’m using it specifically as an abbreviation for Pakistani. It’s like calling a British person a Brit.”
Kaukab Stewart Image: Russell Cheyne/PA Wire
Equalities minister Ms Stewart was also targeted by Dow.
His evidence in defence of racist messages aimed at her online included a screenshot of her Scottish Government profile, which states Ms Stewart was born in Pakistan.
I would never defend "racist" messages but defended my non-racist tweets using the word "Paki" variously for effect - as here in the phrase "pack of Paki lies" and in the "PAKI LIES" large typeface for superposition.
Dow said he used the P-word because it was shorter, and likened it to newspaper headlines.
Collage of selfies with black women
The trial would go on to include unsubstantiated claims by Dow, of Hollybank Place, Aberdeen, that he could have saved thousands of Scottish lives during the Covid pandemic by offering links to “published science documents” he had authored.
When queried by the sheriff on the veracity of the journals in which he was published, Dow revealed: “Well, I published them myself on my blog. As you know, I’m unemployed.
“[The work] sets a picture of me not being recognised for my talents.”
Dow then showed an image he titled “Peter Dow is not a racist”, which was a collage of selfies with black women.
This was the collage shown in court, although it does not appear in the P&J's story.
Noting that there were only black women in the images, some of which he met on dating websites, Dow lamented that there were no Asian women present.
“The point is, I have an open and welcoming attitude towards people of different colours. I am not racially prejudiced. As it happens, these are all mostly black women rather than Asian women, but if I can get an Asian girlfriend, I’ll be very happy,” he said.
Courtroom attack on BBC
Dow also used his time in court on Wednesday to go on to attack the BBC, which he blamed for “brainwashing” people.
The BBC, he claimed, was responsible for this by censoring the word P*** and that it was “really important” he win his court battle so others were free to use the word in future.
He told the court: “The BBC usually gives Pakistanis a free pass by beeping over the word P***.”
Kaukab Stewart was also a target for Dow. Image: PA
‘A good Muslim is going to volunteer to be a suicide bomber or a terrorist’
On Muslims, Dow said he feared a loosening of “checks and balances” as they came to be in positions of authority.
“The more Muslims we appoint as sheriffs, as prosecutors, as politicians making the law, then there’s going to be a process of weakening of those checks and balances,” he said.
“It’s not to do with the colour of skin, I don’t trust Muslims in authority because I’m worried about our country – not immediately, but over the years and decades ahead.
“It’s a horrific prospect.”
Bizarrely, Dow would go on to read a version of the Declaration of Arbroath, which promised to oppose “Muslim rule”.
What would be "bizarre" would be for Scots to surrender our country to a Pakistani- / Muslim takeover by the likes of Humza Yousaf, Kaukab Stewart or Anas Sarwar.
Suicide bomber remarks
Queried on his post that said Muslims should be deported, Dow added “intelligent students” and those opposed to the Taliban would be welcomed.
He explained: “What my policy would be [is] to close the mosques, so that they wouldn’t feel they were welcome as Muslims. Their Muslimness wouldn’t be welcome.
But if academically good students can manage to do without a handy mosque then why not welcome such talent to Scotland?
“A good Muslim is going to volunteer to be a suicide bomber or a terrorist.”
A good Muslim does whatever he is told by an Imam, believing his reward will be in heaven.
The case called at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Image: DC Thomson.
Defiant to the end
Late into Wednesday afternoon, the trial came to a close with Dow branding the fiscal depute in the case, Alan Townsend, a criminal and calling for him to be disbarred.
He also refused to ever change.
“I feel I’ve got to do these things,” he said.
“It’s my duty. I’m not going to change. I think I’ve got a duty to hold Pakistanis to account and I’m going to keep doing that. And if I think using the word P*** is appropriate, that’s what I’m going to do.
“I’ve got to do this. It’s my duty.
“I’ve tweeted the word P*** in the last year several times a day, many more times than I would have done. And the reason I’ve tweeted it so much, not to Scottish Parliament accounts, is because of the court case.
“So if this court case was a plan to stop me using the word P***, it’s backfired spectacularly because I’ve used it all over the place.”
As the room emptied, Dow could once more be heard asking Mr Townsend for the return of his desktop computer.
Well I suppose I could always appeal the verdict to the Sheriff Appeal Court.
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is secretly organising terrorism to kill our friends and loved ones for the glory of Islam.
Hello. I'm Peter Dow, speaking to you from Aberdeen.
Immigrant Pakistanis and their Muslim sons and daughters are taking over our country -Humza Yousaf, Kaukab Stewart, Anas Sarwar, Sadiq Khan, Shabana Mahmood - they are opening the floodgates for millions of their fellow Muslims to move here and take everything they can get.
Pakistanis may take our lives or simply take our freedom to say one word of criticism against Pakistani rule.
But the BBC usually gives Pakistanis a free pass, by beeping over the word "Paki", brainwashing our politicians, lawyers, police and journalists to censor the word "Paki", giving Pakistanis an exemption they don't deserve from democratic scrutiny and accountability.
So who in Scotland will defy the woke trends by typing or saying the word "Paki" in defence of our democratic human right of freedom of expression? I will obviously.
But John Swinney won't. Swinney doesn't have the independence of mind to defy the BBC's woke trend-setters.
Swinney is a puppet - and the only question is - who is pulling Swinney's strings this week - is it the UK or is it Pakistan?
I have received a letter from the Procurator Fiscal EDINBURGH, dated 5 November 2025, notifying me of a new case in respect of this tweet on X.
Let's unpack those images attached to my tweet.
Thankfully there has been no new police raid on my flat so far in association with this case. There's never been any need for any such police raids when I am quite open and honest about owning up to tweets on my @_Peter_Dow account on X.
Darren Steadwood is once again the Scottish Parliament GESTAPO witness who has reported my tweet to the police.
Once again, the charges are false and my tweets lawful - so not as mischaracterised by the PF's Edinburgh's complaint, to which I replied using the provided envelope to a mail handling facility in Paisley - pleading NOT GUILTY.
