Amnesty condemns UK’s ‘human rights violations’

Amnesty International has today accused the British government of “serious human rights violations” in its annual report. The human rights group says the Terrorism Act introduced in the wake of the London bombings last summer contains “sweeping and vague provisions that, if enacted, would undermine the rights to freedom of expression, association, liberty and fair […]

MI5 cleared over London bombings

The security services cannot be blamed for failing to prevent the July 7th London bombings, a parliamentary report finds today. The security and intelligence committee says the “sheer scale” of work facing the intelligence services and their “comparatively small capacity to cover it” explained their failure to prevent last summer’s attacks, which killed 52 people. […]

Reid: Security services are properly funded

The security services have been given the resources they need to tackle terrorism in the UK but can only expand at a certain rate, John Reid insisted today. The home secretary was responding to a parliamentary committee report on the London bombings of July 7th, which said the failure to stop the bombers was due […]

Foreign torture evidence ruled inadmissible

The law lords have today ruled that foreign evidence that might have been obtained under torture cannot be used against terror suspects. Responding to appeals by eight terror suspects, they ruled that torture should always be condemned and to allow it to be part of the British justice system would bring that system into disrepute. […]