Sentences with phrase «terror suspects under»

The Home Office has denied speculation that Charles Clarke is about to drop plans to place terror suspects under house arrest.

The Home Secretary has been warned that plans to place terror suspects under house arrest may be overturned by the courts.

Mr Reid was speaking after Scotland Yard took the unprecedented step of releasing the identities of three missing terror suspects under a control order.

Not exact matches

However, it is the third terror suspect to go missing under the control order system, and has raised questions about its efficiency.

Ministers have previously acknowledged flaws in the system, which was introduced under the Terrorism Act 2005 after the law lords ruled the indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge at Belmarsh prison was unlawful.

Control orders were agreed under immense pressure, with the expiration of the government's derogation from the European convention on human rights looming within a matter of days, and with it the threat of the unconditional release of several terror suspects from Belmarsh.

The issue of control orders, under which terror suspects are placed under «virtual house arrest», is the one of the most sensitive civil liberties issues for ministers as opposition to Labour's authoritarian counter-terror policy was seen as part of the glue that made the coalition possible.

The Deputy Prime Minister mounted an extraordinary defence of a decision under the controversial legislation to allow two Pakistani terror suspects to walk free in the UK, despite warnings that they pose a serious threat to the British public.

Under fire for overseeing a covert CIA Thailand prison that waterboarded terror suspects, Gina Haspel offer ed assurances at her Senate confirmation hearing that she's learned lessons from the past.

People suspected of being Tories being detained under the terror act?

But her history as base chief at a black - site prison in Thailand in 2002, where techniques such as waterboarding were used on terror suspects, came under scrutiny during the confirmation process.

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.

Pelosi has been under fire this week for conflicting statements she made on whether or not she was briefed by the CIA about so - called «enhanced interrogation techniques,» such as waterboarding, being used on terror suspects.

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.