UK Parliament committee: 'Scrap anti-terror detention law'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Terror laws allowing the indefinite detention of foreign nationals without trial should be revoked, an influential parliamentary committee says.
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But the committee said Section 4 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 - which allows indefinite detention - should be replaced with a measure that "does not require the UK to derogate from the right to liberty under the European Convention on Human Rights".

"Other countries have not found it necessary to have any such derogation and we have found no obvious reason why the UK should be the exception."

They added: "While this power has not been used injudiciously or excessively it raises difficult issues of principle and it does not meet the full extent of the threat - for example it does not deal with British nationals."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk_politics/3330221.stm

Blunkett doesn't care. If they're not British citizens, they don't have a vote, so he doesn't feel they have human rights. The hearing into their cases is closed, with the suspects unable to talk to the people meant to be putting their case.