Shamed

New StatesmanJuly 27, 2009

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The anti-terror laws introduced by the government since 2001, it says, consistently employ "broad and vague terms" that leave "scope for political bias" and render our criminal justice system "neither fair, nor just, nor lawful".

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Shamed

The British government stands accused. A special Amnesty International report on this country's human-rights record, details of which are published for the first time here, lays out a shocking catalogue of erosion of liberties and downright abuse, most of it in the name of the war against terror. A chilling picture emerges from its pages of a country panicked by a security nightmare and ripping up its own freed...

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