UK to end no-trial detention
2005-01-26 21:14
London - Britain is to end a controversial policy of detaining foreign terror suspects without trial, replacing it with a series of "control orders", Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced on Wednesday.
The suspects, who would be kept in prison for the time being, would eventually be subject to sanctions such as curfews and electronic tagging instead, Clarke told parliament.
The decision follows a ruling by Britain's highest court of appeal in December that the anti-terror law under which the detainees - estimated by reports to number 12 - were held contravened human rights laws.
- AFP