BRITAIN: Proposed 'control orders' to attack civil liberties

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - 11:00

On January 26, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke outlined planned "control orders", which would enable the government to subject those suspected of terrorism to house arrest, curfews or tagging, without needing to try them. The announcement follows a December Law Lords decision that the indefinite imprisonment without trial of 11 foreign terror suspects was illegal, in part because specific regulations targeting non-citizens was discriminatory. Clarke also announced that the government would continue with the illegal detention of those it cannot deport until the new powers were in place.

From Green Left Weekly, February 2, 2005.

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