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Former terror suspects able to sue over control orders
The government has lost an appeal against an earlier High Court decision to allow two former terror suspects who had been under control orders for three years, known as AE and AF, to claim damages for loss of liberty and violations of human rights.
28 July 2010 (external article)
End of Prevent?
The government's controversial preventing violent extremism programme is apparently to be dismantled.
15 July 2010 (282 words)
guardian Section 44 stop and search powers to be restricted
Home secretary Teresa May has announced that police officers will no longer be able to stop and search individuals using section 44 powers under the Terrorism Act, following a European Court of Human Rights ruling which found them to be unlawful.
9 July 2010 (external article)
wandsworth guardian Extradition of Babar Ahmed halted
The European Court of Human Rights has halted the extradition of the four British nationals, including Babar Ahmed, to the US on the basis that extradition would be 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
8 July 2010 (external article)
bbc news Police 'stop and search' powers curtailed in NI
Police power for random stop and searches, use of which increased by 7,000 in 2008/09, have been suspended by the police service in Northern Ireland after a European Court ruled them illegal.
8 July 2010 (external article)
birmingham mail Hidden cameras scheme suspended after community uproar
A scheme by police with funding from a counter terrorism unit involving the use of 218 cameras,72 of which were hidden, in the Washwood Heath area of Birmingham has been temporarily scraped after local concerns were raised.
5 July 2010 (external article)
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Fighting ghosts: an interview with Husein Al-Samamara
Below we publish an interview with Husein Al-Samamara, currently subjected to draconian immigration bail conditions in the UK as he fights against his deportation to Jordan, where he was imprisoned and tortured.
1 July 2010 (3812 words)
click liverpool Neo-Nazi's face jail terms
Aryan Strike Force founders Trevor Hannington and Michael Heaton have been jailed for twenty-four and thirty months respectively for inciting racial hatred and possessing information for use in an act of terrorism.
28 June 2010 (external article)
channel 4 news Guilty verdict for Aryan Strike Force founders
Trevor Hannington and Michael Heaton have been found guilty at Liverpool crown court of race hate and terrorism charges. The convictions are the latest in a series of trials involving far-right extremists over the last two years.
25 June 2010 (external article)
Control orders challenged
In an important ruling for people under control orders, the Supreme Court has recognised that separation from family members can turn internal exile into the equivalent of a prison sentence.
24 June 2010 (675 words)
guardian Terror law reviewer calls for changes to stop and search
Lord Carlisle, the independent reviewer of anti-terror laws, is to call for further police powers to allow random stop and searches after similar laws were ruled unlawful by the European court.
24 June 2010 (external article)
guardian Legal challenge to surveillance of Muslims
Human rights lawyers have begun gathering evidence to challenge Project Champion, the counter-terrorism surveillance project due to start in August, in which two Muslim suburbs of Birmingham will be monitored by 150 numberplate recognition cameras.
14 June 2010 (external article)
bbc news Thousands stopped and searched illegally
Home Office figures show thousands of people were illegally stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act after powers authorised by the act were used incorrectly.
10 June 2010 (external article)
guardian Political radicals monitored in EU surveillance programme
The UK is taking part in a European programme that uses systematic information gathering to monitor 'domestic extremists'.
9 June 2010 (external article)
guardian 150 surveillance cameras to track Muslims in Birmingham
A counter-terrorism grant has funded a £3m project, in which around 150 numberplate recognition cameras have been installed in the Muslim areas of Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath in Birmingham.
7 June 2010 (external article)
guardian Excessive use of stop and search condemned
Five police forces have received written warnings from the Equality and Human Rights Commission after a review in March found they used stop-and search powers disproportionately against black and Asian people.
3 June 2010 (external article)
bbc news Terror suspects win deportation appeal
Two Pakistani students, Abid Naseer and Ahmad Faraz Khan, who were arrested last year on terrorism charges, have won an appeal against deportation.
18 May 2010 (external article)
bbc news White supremacist father and son jailed
Father and son, Ian and Nicky Davidson, have been convicted at Newcastle Crown Court, and sentenced to ten and two years respectively, for offences under the Terrorism Act.
17 May 2010 (external article)
personnel today Court of Appeal rules that secret evidence must be heard in public
A court has ruled that evidence cannot be given in secret in the employment tribunal of a man who was suspended from his role as an immigration officer by the Home Office in 2006, and who is the cousin of a man convicted of terrorist offences.
6 May 2010 (external article)
independent British Muslims on safari 'stopped by MI5'
A report by human rights group Cageprisoners has found that MI5 agents illegally interrogated British Muslims who were detained while on safari holidays in Africa.
6 May 2010 (external article)
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