Law lords hear terror suspects&#39; appeal
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Government powers enabling foreigners to be detained without limit under emergency anti-terror laws threaten the values they were designed to protect, the law lords were told today.
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The men can be detained until 1.30pm on October 1 after an extension was issued under the Terrorism Act. Three of the men were arrested in a &quot;pre--planned&quot; operation by officers from the Metropolitan Police&#39;s
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Emergency powers to intern suspected foreign terrorists indefinitely in Britain are a breach of their human rights, the law lords were told.
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Britain has about 2,000 terror suspects, hundreds more than was previously thought, a top British official said Tuesday as he urged lawmakers to extend how long police can hold terror suspects before they are charged.
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Nine law lords have ruled that legislation allowing foreign nationals suspected of terrorism to be locked up indefinitely and without trial, contravenes human rights laws.
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Lawyers for terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui on Tuesday asked all the judges on a Southern appeals court to consider whether Moussaoui can have direct access to al-Qaida witnesses and whether the government can seek his execution.
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An attorney for families of Sept. 11 victims asked a court Friday to seek testimony from an al-Qaida suspect in Syria, saying it could lead to a stiffer sentence for a man convicted in Germany of aiding the suicide hijackers.
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By George Jones, Political Editor and Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor. The law lords ruled by an eight to one majority that the indefinite detention of foreign suspects without charge or trial in Belmarsh prison breached their human rights.
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LONDON -- Eight men charged with conspiracy to murder in a trans-Atlantic terror plot made their first court appearance yesterday in a case that has added to the fierce debate over Britain's terrorism laws and heightened fears in the country's Islamic community of an anti-Muslim backlash.
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Members of a U.S. military commission are being challenged by defense attorneys who say their ties to the war on terror could affect their ability to fairly judge four detainees charged with war crimes.
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Barristers who represent foreign terrorism suspects held in British prisons without trial raise concerns.
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Three men charged under Britain's anti-terrorism laws on suspicion of seeking to obtain radioactive material to make a nuclear device made a brief first appearance Saturday before a London court.
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Nine foreign terror suspects begin a challenge in the House of Lords against their detention without trial.
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The Supreme Court said on Friday it would hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners on their right to challenge their indefinite confinement, a test of President George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism.
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Senior police officers renew calls for a change in the law on how long a terror suspect can be held without charge.
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Nine foreign terror suspects held indefinitely without charge in what critics have dubbed "Britain's Guantanamo" began a legal challenge against their detention at the UK's highest court on Monday.
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The Home Secretary is to respond to a ruling that holding foreign terror suspects without trial breaches human rights laws.