Sentences with phrase «civil liberties campaigners»

However the decision to ban their right to march is unlikely to sit comfortably with civil liberties campaigners.

The complacency of civil liberties campaigners means the only pressure the government gets is from the securocrats and tabloids.

The UK may block an extradition on the basis of procedural grounds but not for any other reason, raising concerns from civil liberties campaigners.

The measure, criticised by civil liberty campaigners as a «snooper's charter», has been taken out of a more general Home Office and Ministry of Justice - sponsored crime and courts bill, which ministers need to get on to the statute book as fast as possible.

If civil liberties campaigners can not win the arguments now, free from press hysteria, under a supposedly sympathetic government, they never will.

Obtaining such information from the US could circumvent existing British law prohibiting these kinds of measures, which civil liberties campaigners are already opposing in home secretary Theresa May's «snoopers» charter» proposals.

Civil liberties campaigners branded it a «dark night for British justice» this evening, after MPs defeat attempts to water - down the secret courts bill.

The government is following the wording of the ruling, but has insisted on innocent people's DNA being kept for six years - angering civil liberty campaigners.

Tory MP and civil liberty campaigner David Davis told BBC Radio 5 Live: «Secret agencies naturally do not want to come out in a public area, they don't want to people to know what they are doing.

We therefore congratulate two Tory MPs - Eurosceptic backbencher and civil liberties campaigner Sir Richard Shepherd and former Whip and headteacher Dame Angela Watkinson.

DESPITE strong opposition from American civil liberties campaigners and even religious groups, the FBI can now eavesdrop on phone calls made on digital telephone systems.

English Pen, Big Brother Watch and other civil liberties campaigners brought the action following revelations about GCHQ's collection of internet data from millions of people not under any suspicion.

The comments quickly took the fire out of civil liberties campaigners, and just in time to nip a potential Liberal Democrat rebellion in the bud.

Limited rebellions saw the coalition's majority reduced to 32 and 40, ending frantic efforts by civil liberties campaigners to persuade backbenchers to challenge the government.

Despite opposition from civil liberties campaigners, the advanced imaging technology (AIT) scanners are now in operation at the two airports, and will be followed by Birmingham airport at the end of this month, followed by a nationwide roll - out.

Civil liberties campaigners have said the scans represent an invasion of privacy and their introduction may yet be challenged by the Human Rights Commission.

Tonight's vote over 42 - day detention is going to be «very, very close» with the full pressure of the government machine being brought to bear, civil liberties campaigners are saying.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

The difference between now and the New Labour years is that civil liberties campaigners are not on the back foot.

Anti-Corbyn MPs are using the confirmation of the civil liberties campaigner's peerage as a new stick to beat him with, given the Labour leader previously said he would not nominate anyone to the Lords.

Anti-Corbyn MPs criticise peerage just weeks after the civil liberties campaigner presides over a «whitewash» into Labour anti-Semitism.

But the move enraged privacy and civil liberty campaigners, who were promised that the government would act to roll back the «database state» when it entered Downing Street.

Civil liberties campaigners have reacted with outrage at the government's plans, contained in the Queen's Speech, to give law enforcers wider scope to monitor details about private phone calls.

Civil liberties campaigners could contest proposals which would see the police handed the discretion to remove videos from internet sites, even with judicial approval.

Civil liberties campaigners have spoken out against laws that could see young people added to the sex offender register for taking explicit pictures of themselves.