Sentences with phrase «detention for terror»

«Ninety days (pre-charge detention for terror suspects) had not been asked for by the intelligence services.

Mr Brown said he would continue his strong stance on «sometimes quite controversial issues» like the 42 - day limit pre-charge detention for terror suspects or public sector pay.

He brought embarrassment on the government when, as chief whip, he sent a note to Keith Vaz thanking him for his help with the crunch vote over 42 - day detention for terror suspects and saying he trusted he would be «appropriately rewarded».

Parliament was right to reject government proposals to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects to 90 days, a Home Office minister has said.

Not exact matches

He calls for a Royal Commission on the future of policing, but wants to maintain both «operational independence» and the ability for chief constables to argue contentious and partisan political points, such as the detention of terror suspects for up to 90 days.

The pre-charge detention limit for terror suspects was the topic de jour, with the Conservative leader attacking Mr Brown's preferred extension to 42 days from the current 28 - day limit.

And Mr Blair said the question of extending the detention time limit for terror suspects beyond 28 days would be included in these - making clear he still supported the idea.

The government is considering bringing back proposals to allow the detention of terror suspects for up to 90 days without being charged, Tony Blair has confirmed.

The counterterrorism bill proposes raising the maximum limit for terror suspects» pre-charge detention from the current 28 days to 42 days, but only after the home secretary has come before the Commons.

The committee's views on detention of terror suspects will also make good reading for critics, as it finds that it has yet to see evidence to justify the time terrorist suspects can be held without charge.

Though normally voting with the Labour Whip, Thornberry voted against her party's government on national security matters, regarding the detention of terror suspects without charge for 90 days in the Terrorism Act 2006, on the same matter for 42 days in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, and against the renewal of Trident.

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Damian Green announces reduction in pre-charge detention limit for terror suspect from 28 to 14 days

I admire his stance against the Patriot Act, as well as his efforts on campaign finance reform and against torture and indefinite detentions of terror suspects without any mechanism for judicial review.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke today re-emphasised his determination to introduce control orders for terror suspects before the current regime of indefinite detention runs out next month.

Following the rejection of a previous bill under Tony Blair's government to allow the detention of terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge, [103] Brown championed a new bill extending the pre-charge detention period to 42 days.

ID cards and «28 days» (the current maximum pre-charge detention period for terror suspects), I think we can thrash it out.

The new leader of the House of Lords is to ask Gordon Brown to drop plans to force through the detention of terror suspects for up to 42 days.

-- For documentary and photojournalism, photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black for their «Negative Publicity,» a project that looked at the CIA's use of secret detention centers during the war on terrFor documentary and photojournalism, photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black for their «Negative Publicity,» a project that looked at the CIA's use of secret detention centers during the war on terrfor their «Negative Publicity,» a project that looked at the CIA's use of secret detention centers during the war on terror.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.