Sentences with phrase «period terror suspects»

Terror watchdog Lord Carlile this morning said he was «completely convinced» by the need to extend the period terror suspects can be held without charge in complex cases.

The government is currently trying to push through measures that would extend the period terror suspects can be held without being charged.

MPs have rejected the government's case for an extension of the period terror suspects can be held without charge.

The former attorney general today told MPs he was «not persuaded» of the need to extend the period terror suspects can be detained without charge beyond its current 28 - day limit.

Not exact matches

Mr Grieve warned holding terror suspects for prolonged periods encouraged media speculation and risked prejudicing a future trial.

Government safeguards to increase the period for which terror suspects can be held without trial were today dismissed as «meaningless».

[18] The announcement came a day after the narrow passing of a parliamentary vote on the Counter-Terrorism Bill, which would extend the limit on the period of detention of terror suspects without charge in England and Wales, from 28 to 42 days.

Shadow home secretary David Davis yesterday insisted there was not a «shred of evidence» to support government plans to extend the period for which terror suspects can be held without charge.

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 game takes place in Taiwan in the 1960s, the middle of a period known as the «White Terror» where the country was under a long period of Martial Law, and fear of Communism and Mainland China led to an era of brutal government suppression of the media and suspected Communist Sympathisers.