England's Supreme Court Strikes Down Blairs Fear Tactics
Good News: England's Supreme Court Strikes Down Blairs Fear Tactics
In a tremendous victory for the people living in the United Kingdom, Britain's highest court of appeal ruled the government cannot detain people in jail indefinitely without a trial. This means England won't be able to hold people in secret jails any longer. Hopefully, courts in the United States will reach a similar conclusion and decide in favor of the rule of law and against government-sponsored fear...
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2575
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Law lords condemn Blunkett's terror measures
'The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these' - Lord Hoffmann - in yesterday's judgment
http://207.44.245.159/article7500.htm
HOUSE OF LORDS: OPINIONS OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL FOR JUDGMENT IN THE CAUSE
Read the judgment. pdf format
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/ukterror121604opn.pdf
UK Keeps Terror Suspects in Jail, Despite Judgement
The Law Lord judges ruled 8-1 in favor of the men whose imprisonment under draconian anti-terror laws, some for as long as three years, has become a cause celebre for rights activists who call their predicament "Britain's Guantanamo Bay."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20041216/wl_nm/security_britain_dc
http://snipurl.com/bfzq
US guards abused me, claims Guantanamo Briton
A Manchester man released from Guantanamo Bay told Europe’s top human rights body today he was beaten, shackled, kept in a cramped cage and fed rotten food as part of “systematic abuse” while in American custody.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/12/17/story180921.html
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In a tremendous victory for the people living in the United Kingdom, Britain's highest court of appeal ruled the government cannot detain people in jail indefinitely without a trial. This means England won't be able to hold people in secret jails any longer. Hopefully, courts in the United States will reach a similar conclusion and decide in favor of the rule of law and against government-sponsored fear...
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2575
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Law lords condemn Blunkett's terror measures
'The real threat to the life of the nation, in the sense of a people living in accordance with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these' - Lord Hoffmann - in yesterday's judgment
http://207.44.245.159/article7500.htm
HOUSE OF LORDS: OPINIONS OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL FOR JUDGMENT IN THE CAUSE
Read the judgment. pdf format
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/ukterror121604opn.pdf
UK Keeps Terror Suspects in Jail, Despite Judgement
The Law Lord judges ruled 8-1 in favor of the men whose imprisonment under draconian anti-terror laws, some for as long as three years, has become a cause celebre for rights activists who call their predicament "Britain's Guantanamo Bay."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20041216/wl_nm/security_britain_dc
http://snipurl.com/bfzq
US guards abused me, claims Guantanamo Briton
A Manchester man released from Guantanamo Bay told Europe’s top human rights body today he was beaten, shackled, kept in a cramped cage and fed rotten food as part of “systematic abuse” while in American custody.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/12/17/story180921.html
From Information Clearing House
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