UK: adoption of a controversial new control-order law
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,...United Kingdom: Control orders to replace detention without trial
On 26 January, the Government announced plans to replace administrative detention of foreign terror suspects with a regime of control orders. The orders would apply equally to UK and foreign citizens and range from restrictions of movement and communication to house...
Return to position of principle: time to repeal anti-terrorism law
The ICJ and JUSTICE, its British section, call for the repeal of the law that allows for indefinite administrative detention without trial.
Law Lords rule against 9-11 law – time for governments’ review of preventive detention
“Yesterday’s ruling of the Law Lords is a landmark for human rights and the rule of law”, says ICJ Secretary General, Nicholas Howen.
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