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Clearly the immediate provocation is the plan to hold terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days; but Davis sees this as part of a wider attack on civil liberties, and in this context he refers to the creation of a «database state».

Such appeals have included the legality of detaining terror suspects without trial, whether the deaths of six Iraqis at the hands of British soldiers was covered by the Human Rights Act, and the extradition of General Pinochet».

The list has been one of the government most controversial tools for combating terrorism because critics say it treats innocent people as terror suspects without presenting evidence against them.

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.

He ruled that the detention of foreign terror suspects without charge breached their human rights, said Britain's decision to invade Iraq breached international law and was a committed and outspoken defender of the Human Rights Act.

Mr Cameron attacked proposals to allow the 90 - day detention of terror suspects without charge, which the government is expected to reintroduce next year.

[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.

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.

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.

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Gordon Brown has today called for an extension in the time 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.

The archbishop of York has warned that extending the time terror suspects can be held without charge to 90 days is getting close to creating a «police state».

The government has formalised plans to hold terror suspects for 42 days without charge with publication of the counterterrorism bill.

Britain's top lawyer last night expressed doubts about the government's intention to reintroduce plans allowing police to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge.

Control orders allow terror suspects to be closely monitored when there is insufficient evidence for prosecution or deportation, and Mr McNulty claimed: «Without control orders these individuals would be free to continue to engage in terrorist - related activity.»

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

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

The joint committee on human rights also questions plans to extend the time a terror suspect can be held in police custody without charge from its current limit of 14 days, saying it has yet to see evidence to justify this.

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.

Police can continue detaining terror suspects for up to 28 days without bringing charges, after MPs renewed the power last night.

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.

Pataki did say it's appropriate to make distinctions between non-citizen terror suspects and US citizens like Faisal Shahzad, who has admitted to his role in the Times Square plot, adding: «The Christmas Day bomber should not have been given the Miranda warnings... he is an enemy combatant, a terrorist without those rights.»

The head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, told MPs that terror suspects may need to be held for up to 90 days without charge, and callls for parliament to pass measures now rather than in an emergency.

He welcomed her to her role and without mentioning the newspaper reports asked about terror suspects who had fled Britain to join Islamic State while on police bail.

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

The government originally wanted increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from 14 days to 90, but this was reduced to 28 after 49 Labour MPs and opposition parties voted against it, giving Tony Blair his first Commons defeat.

The former lord chancellor has added his concerns to the body of opinion doubting the government's plans to extend the length of time terror suspects can be held without charge.

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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.

It is worth remembering that control orders were introduced primarily for foreign terror suspects that could not be deported (specifically those detained without trial at Belmarsh prison).

The publication of the study follows Gordon Brown's support this weekend for an extension of the 28 - day limit on the time 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.

As such it is debatable that an extension to the time terror suspects can be detained without trial is actually needed.

The committee found that seven of the current 15 terror suspects had been on control orders for more than two years, and two were thought to have been detained without trial before that.

2004: House of Lords rules that the indefinite detention without trial of foreign terror suspects at Belmarsh jail is unlawful.