UK must choose: human rights powers or anti-terror legislation
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The UK government wrongly allowed the indefinite detention of foreign terrorist suspects without trial, the country&#39;s top court ruled.
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Facing growing resistance on Capitol Hill, the White House may give in a little on legislation governing the treatment of terror suspects
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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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Rushed through parliament in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the act states that a non-British national can be detained indefinitely if the secretary of state suspects that person of being a terrorist and he or she is believed to be a risk to
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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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Britain&#39;s top court is considering a legal challenge to an anti-terrorism law that allows the indefinite detention of foreigners without charge or trial.
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LONDON : The United States faced rare criticism over human rights from close ally Britain, with an official British government report taking Washington to task over concerns about Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay jail.
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LONDON -- In a rebuke to Tony Blair's government, Britain's highest court yesterday ruled that the country's policy allowing indefinite detention of foreign terrorism suspects violates European human rights laws and is discriminatory.
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The Law Lords&#39; ruling against the detention of foreign terrorism suspects without trial will have widespread implications - potentially affecting existing and planned anti-terror
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Lord Falconer calls for a 'common sense' approach to human rights, in a bid to end misunderstanding of the law.
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Britain is considering a raft of sweeping new anti-terrorism laws including special courts to try terror suspects without a jury, Home Secretary David Blunkett said in an interview today.
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Britain&#39;s Law Lords has ruled that detaining terrorism suspects indefinitely and without trial violates their civil rights under the European Convention... Britain&#39;s highest court has ruled in favor of nine
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A key but controversial plank of Britain's post-September 11 security policy was thrown into disarray as the country's highest court ruled that detaining terror suspects indefinitely without trial violated human rights laws.
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Britain's highest court ruled on  Thursday against the detention of foreign terrorism suspects  without trial, in a major judgment on how far human rights can  be restricted in the "war on terror."
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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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Detaining foreign terrorism suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK's highest court has ruled. What is your reaction?
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Control order imposed under anti-terrorist legislation on a British convert to Islam to be overturned