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08/01/07

The policy of locking up some prisoners until it is considered safe to free them is in crisis after it was condemned as “arbitrary, unreasonable and unlawful” by the High Court. Two inmates, a sex offender and a man convicted of attempted robbery, won a landmark challenge to the system of indeterminate sentences, which have no fixed end-dates.They argued they could not demonstrate their eligibility for release as offending behaviour courses were not provided at the jails where they are held...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2823108.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Terrorism suspects held under virtual house arrest in Britain suffer "Kafkaesque" treatment in special courts that review secret evidence against them, a committee of legislators said on Monday.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL2936079920070730



British students jailed for possessing "extremist" literature

Such is the atmosphere created by politicians and the media after the attempted terror bombings in London and Glasgow earlier this month that there was very little opposition in the media to what are police state measures-the jailing of these youths merely for downloading material readily available on the Internet.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/terr-j31.shtml


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