UK urged to review terrorism laws
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A UN committee asks the UK to review its policy of detaining terrorism suspects without trial.
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British Home Secretary David Blunkett on Sunday unveiled proposals for more far-reaching laws to tackle terrorism if the Labor government wins the next election widely expected in May next year.
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UK Home Secretary David Blunkett outlines proposals for tough new measures to combat terrorism.
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Nine Law Lords are set to a make a major ruling on the extent to which the government can restrict human rights in its bid to combat terrorism.
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Britain's top law enforcement official said Wednesday that individual rights must be balanced against collective security in the face of the threat of terrorism.
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LONDON - A British parliamentary committee accused the government on Sunday of breaking European human rights law with its curbs on terrorism suspects and urged it to do more to prosecute suspects ...Comment
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Home secretary says the terror threat facing UK is 'higher than it has ever been' as she unveiils new laws
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The nation's chief of homeland security said Sunday that the U.S. should consider reviewing its laws to allow for more electronic surveillance and detention of possible terror suspects, citing last week's foiled plot.
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The government must act quickly on the Law Lords&#39; ruling that detention of foreign terror suspects without trial is unlawful, Mary Robinson has said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government stands accused of going down the road towards a police state following proposed new anti-terror laws which have prompted comparisons with repressive regimes such as Myanmar.
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Independent terrorism legislation watchdog comes out in support of the government's detention plan
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David Blunkett&#39;s emergency anti-terrorism laws came under fire last night after he ruled a suspect interned without trial for nearly three years no longer posed a national threat.
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The British government Wednesday proposed sweeping new powers to control suspected terrorists, including electronic tagging, curfews and house arrest of people who have not been convicted of crimes.
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"We cannot have a reincarnation of the old 'sus' laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties."  British police could get powers to stop and question anyone in the UK under proposed tough new anti-terror laws. via Boston Today
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The government is considering new tough anti-terrorism laws to prevent an al Qaeda attack including plans to target suspects even if they have not committed an offence, Home Secretary David Blunkett will say today.
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The government's anti-terror laws unfairly target Muslims and should be repealed, MPs hear.
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The government's own human rights body has recommended to President Hosni Mubarak that he scrap emergency laws he says he needs to fight terrorism, but which have been widely condemned as antidemocratic.