Sentences with phrase «for terror suspects»

The home secretary has denied suggestions that he will try once again to introduce 90 - day detention for terror suspects following last week's alleged terror plot.

Last week the security minister appeared to get into trouble after questioning the need to extend the 28 - day detention period for terror suspects.

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

As one of his very first acts as president, Obama signed an executive order to close the military prison for terror suspects within a year.

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.

«Some experts believe Cuba could become a gateway to the U.S. for terror suspects from Europe.

The Lords handed another defeat to the government last night, as peers ignored its opposition to independent commissioners for terror suspects.

He also cultivated a close relationship with the US: Mukhabarat cells became one of the destinations for terror suspects who had been «renditioned» by the CIA.

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.

Bush — yes; Obama — yes Military tribunals instead of open trials for terror suspects?

Obama was responding to comments Cheney made to CNN's «State of the Union» on March 15, when he said the president is making the nation less safe by closing the Guantanamo prison and ending interrogation practices that Bush administration critics consider torture for terror suspects.

In particular, he challenged the Government to scrap control orders and reduce the pre-charge detention period for terror suspects from 28 days to 14.

On a rare, and unannounced, visit to the home of the U.S. military's prison for terror suspects, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis offered a pep talk to American troops — and urged them to always be ready for war.

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.

Gordon Brown says increasing pre-charge detention for terror suspects to 42 days is the «right way to protect national security».

Gordon Brown told the Conservatives they should «think again» on the case for an extension of the pre-charge detention limit for terror suspects to 42 days in today's prime minister's questions.

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.

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

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».

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.

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

Tony Blair suffered his first defeat as prime minister in 2005 when MPs rejected his call for the pre-charge detention limit for terror suspects to be increased from 14 to 90 days.

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

Despite the availability of more proportionate alternatives, Reid and Brown have both insisted that they want to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects.