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UK reiterates willingness to consider US request to accept Guantanamo detainees
April 28, 2009 by Andrew Gilmore
UK Justice Minister Jack Straw said Monday that his country would still be willing to consider a US request to take in terrorism detainees held by at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, if doing so would aid in the closure of the facility. Speaking at a meeting with his US counterpart, Attorney.... [more]
UK House of Lords drops 42-day detention period from anti-terror bill
October 13, 2008 by Joe Shaulis
The UK House of Lords on Monday rejected a proposal supported by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to increase the amount of time authorities may detain terrorism suspects without charge. The upper house of Parliament voted 309-118 to amend an anti-terrorism bill by eliminating a highly contentious.... [more]
UK terrorism detention bill criticized by former intelligence chief
July 9, 2008 by Deirdre Jurand
A former British intelligence bureau chief told the House of Lords Tuesday that a proposed anti-terror bill allowing authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days is impractical and unprincipled. Elizabeth Manningham-Buller, who resigned as the head of MI5 last year, said.... [more]
UK PM defends 42-day terrorism detention bill, security proposals
June 17, 2008 by Mike Rosen-Molina
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday spoke in favor of a controversial anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days in a speech he presented to the Institute for Public Policy Research. Brown said that stronger safeguards are needed to.... [more]
UK bill allowing six-week pre-charge detention of terror suspects violates human rights [comment]
June 13, 2008 by Andrew Wood
Judith Sunderland: On June 11, 2008, the UK House of Commons narrowly approved a measure giving the government the power to detain terrorism suspects for up to six weeks (42 days) without charge. Such lengthy pre-charge detention is manifestly incompatible with the UK's obligations to gua....... [more]
Top UK opposition MP resigns to protest 42-day terrorism detention bill
June 12, 2008 by Deirdre Jurand
The UK shadow Home Secretary resigned his parliamentary seat Thursday in protest at House of Commons passage Wednesday of an anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days. Conservative Party frontbencher David Davis called the Labour.... [more]
UK Commons approves 42-day terrorism detention without charge limit
June 11, 2008 by Deirdre Jurand
The UK House of Commons Wednesday voted 315-306 in favor of an amendment to a proposed anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days. Rights groups, opposition MPs and even some governing Labour Party backbenchers sharply criticized the.... [more]
UK police split on 42-day detention without charge as Commons vote looms
June 10, 2008 by Bernard Hibbitts
British law enforcement and security officials appear sharply split on the advisability of extending the detention without charge limit for terror suspects to 42 days in the run-up to a Wednesday vote on a contentious new anti-terrorism bill in the House of Commons. Unnamed senior police officers.... [more]
UK Home Secretary limits terror detention bill
June 3, 2008 by Deirdre Jurand
A proposed UK anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days has been amended to only apply in cases of grave and exceptional terrorist threats, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said Tuesday. Current British law authorizes detention....... [more]
Human rights commissioner warns UK 42-day detention plan could set bad precedent
June 2, 2008 by Deirdre Jurand
A proposed anti-terror bill that would allow British law enforcement authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days should not be passed as it could set a bad precedent for other countries, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights said during a BBC Radio 4 in....... [more]
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