UK repeals terror law due to human rights violations

Detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK’s highest court has ruled.

In a blow to the government’s anti-terror measures, the House of Lords ruled by an eight to one majority in favour of appeals by nine detainees.

The Law Lords said the measures were incompatible with European human rights laws, but Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the men will remain in prison.

He said the measures will “remain in force” until the law was reviewed.

Most of the men are being held indefinitely in Belmarsh prison, south London.
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Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, in his ruling, said: “Indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial is anathema in any country which observes the rule of law.

“It deprives the detained person of the protection a criminal trial is intended to afford.” BBC

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