Less than one in 20 held under anti-terror laws is charged

[dogday]

Less than 4 per cent of the people arrested under anti-terror laws since the September 11 attacks five years ago have been convicted of terrorist offences, it was disclosed yesterday.

Following warnings from Muslim groups over the growing alienation of large sections of the community, the Government faced demands for an overhaul of anti-terrorist legislation.

Ministers also came under sustained fire in the House of Lords for their use of control orders against terrorist suspects, with peers warning that the policy could backfire by attracting support for extremism.

Statistics released by the Home Office disclosed that 1,166 people were detained between 11 September 2001, and 31 December last year on suspicion of involvement in terrorism


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[Kagemusha]

1. Conversely the govt there claims there's hordes of terror plots

and terror sympathizers plotting against the country and all that is good and true, so there's a vast amount of terrorists that they aren't convicting, but who are guilty as hell. So more and more power is required to detain people they can't get convicted in a court of law because the threat is just that dire and the courts are so inadequate.