Britain Proposes New Anti-Terror Powers
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British officials proposed sweeping new powers to control and monitor suspected terrorists without charge or trial, including house arrests, electronic tagging and curfews.
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Terrorism News, London,Britain is drawing up far-reaching proposals to tackle terrorism, including allowing the use of phone-taps as evidence in trials and special anti-terror courts.
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The home secretary has said that a system of control orders will replace the holding of foreign terror suspects without trial. What is your reaction?
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Britain's highest court ruled on  Wednesday the government could use controversial anti-terrorism  powers but only in watered-down form.
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New measures to fight crime, terror and drugs are at the heart of the UK Government's plans for the next year.
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Evidence gathered through wiretapping will be allowed in British courts for the first time under proposals aimed at bringing more terrorism suspects to justice, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday his government wants new anti-terror laws as he accused the courts and parliament of wrongly stressing the rights of suspects over national security.
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Britain&#39;s law lords have sat as a panel of nine rather than five only once since the Second World War. It is an indication of how seriously they considered the threat to British liberties posed by David Blunkett&#39;s anti-terrorism legislation.
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The British government will introduce new laws to fight crime, terror and drugs in the run up to the next general election. The legislative programme outlined in the Queen&#39;s speech includes plans to introduce
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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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"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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David Blunkett  says measures to beat terrorism could include special anti-terror courts using phone-taping evidence.
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Proposals to allow police to stop and question anyone in the UK under new anti-terror laws are criticised.
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Home Secretary John Reid announced Thursday plans for new anti-terrorism laws as he said three men who absconded from control orders allegedly wanted to travel abroad for terrorist activities.
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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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LONDON: The British Government has detailed a range of new measures to fight global terrorism and organised crime, as the Queen set out its new law-making agenda ahead of expected elections next year.
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Russia's parliament drafted proposals  for an anti-terrorism law Monday, the day it began an inquiry  into the Beslan school siege that killed more than 320  hostages, half of them children.