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On 11 March, the UK parliament adopted a new counter-terrorism law introducing preventive control orders for terrorist suspects to supersede earlier administrative detention provisions. This legislation enables the executive to place far-reaching movement,...
ICJ comments on Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
The ICJ submitted its observations to the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Terrorism (CODEXTER) on the draft Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism.
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In a report on counter-terrorism measures in Spain, Human Rights Watch criticised the use of incommunicado detention, secret legal proceedings, the limitation of defence rights during pre-trial detention and the length of pre-trial detention in terrorism cases in that...United Kingdom: Control orders to replace detention without trial
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