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...will release five of nine British citizens now detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within the next 24 hours, according to British Home Secretary David Blunkett...
Speaking at Harvard Law School (HLS), Blunkett announced last evening that the five Britons being released from the military prison may face trial at home...
...Home Secretary since June 2001, Blunkett is responsible for dealing with international crime and terrorism. His anti-terror initiatives include provisions that allow indefinite detention of aliens who cannot be deported until they have a place to go. There have been 14 detentions in Britain under this provision...
...discriminatory, harsh and, paradoxically, ineffective at targeting homegrown terrorists, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said he was thinking of changing it - by extending the same stern measures to British citizens. Which approach makes Europe safer? The American camp at Guantánamo Bay may be the most notorious attempt to bypass legal protections for the accused in the name of fighting terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package...
...Hugill. The committee of British parliamentarians, which blasted internment for foreign terror suspects, also criticized the government for not trying alternatives that might be equally effective, like electronic tagging and intensive surveillance, or giving prosecutors more tools to convict terrorists in open court, like admitting wiretap evidence. Many think Blunkett is already planning to retreat to this safer ground. Outside the courthouse where Mzoudi was acquitted stands a slate-gray stone monument inscribed simply, "1933." A nearby plaque remembers those "abused, killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich...