Police could get anti-terror stop and question powers
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Prime Minister Tony Blair Sunday accused courts and parliament of putting the rights of suspects before national security as it emerged that police may get powers to stop and question people in the street.
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Australia's most populous state has announced it will give counter-terrorism police increased powers to carry out covert surveillance to help them break up extremist cells.
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Spurred by the first terrorist killing in his country, the Dutch justice minister said Monday authorities need broader arrest powers to combat a growing threat from Islamic radicals in the Netherlands.
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Britain's top police officer is calling for phone-tap evidence to be used in court cases involving terror suspects.
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Officers holding 14 men arrested in anti-terror raids in London are given more time for questioning.
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The Metropolitan Police have made more counter-terrorism stops and searches in the last five months than in the whole of the previous year.
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Independent reviewer of counter-terrorism law, Lord Carlile, says politicians should hand over power to decide about maximum detention periods.
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The law protecting people who intervene to stop crime is to be reviewed, the justice secretary will announce.
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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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Anti-terrorism police have been given until Friday to question four men arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences after a newspaper claimed that they were trying to obtain radioactive material for a &quot;dirty bomb&quot;.
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Arrests in Denmark and Germany this week could spur widening investigative police powers.
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Law Lords are to rule on how far the government can restrict human rights in its bid to combat terrorism.
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The government must act quickly to announce what it will do to end the detention of 12 foreign terrorist suspects if it is to avoid an embarrassing defeat at the European court of human rights, a leading human rights QC said yesterday.
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The government on Thursday unveiled controversial plans to extend the length of time terrorism suspects can be held by police and questioned without charge from 28 to 42 days.
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An Indian doctor held in Australia may test tough anti-terrorism laws with a court appeal, his lawyer said on Tuesday as police said they wanted more time to probe possible links to the foiled British car bomb attacks.
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Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza faces yet more questions today after police were given more time to hold him on suspicion of being involved in terrorist offences.