Britain Proposes Detaining "Terrorist Suspects" for 3 Months w/out Charges

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Consensus fails as Clarke outlines terror bill

Matthew Tempest, political correspondent
Thursday September 15, 2005


The cross-party consensus on anti-terror legislation broke down today, as the home secretary, Charles Clarke, proposed detaining terror suspects without charge for three months.

The Liberal Democrats immediately opposed both longer detention periods, which the police have requested, and the intention to create a new offence of "glorifying terrorism".

David Davis, the Tory home affairs spokesman, echoed the first objection, saying the government had "yet to make a convincing case" for extending the maximum period of detention.

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Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights pressure group Liberty, said: "Three months' detention without charge is the very antithesis of justice. This new British internment (is) as damaging to fighting terrorism at home as to defending our reputation around the globe."

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