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Subject: United Kingdom: Emergency legislation: trial not indefinite detention is the answer

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Date Posted: 15:45:40 12/03/01 Mon

* News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty
International *

13 November 2001
EUR 45/018/2001
200/01

Amnesty International UK has reacted with alarm to the UK
government's announcement that indefinite detention without trial
provisions are to be introduced in new proposed anti-terrorism
legislation ? to be published by the government today.

Amnesty International warned that the measures risk leading to
the imprisonment of innocent people without charge or trial.

Amnesty International UK Director of Communications Richard
Bunting said:

"People who carry out heinous crimes and human rights abuses such
as the horrific attacks on the USA on 11 September must be
brought to justice.

"If UK laws need tightening to allow the prosecution and trials
of such people, then they should be tightened, but without
undermining basic rights.

"The answer to well-planned acts of outrage is well-planned
policing, international co-operation, public vigilance,
surveillance and proper judicial procedures ? all in conformity
with international standards."

Amnesty International reminds the Government that 'internment'
measures have resulted in human rights violations and failed to
deter political violence in several parts of the world, including
in Northern Ireland.

Amnesty International has outlined its concerns in a submission
to the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee Short Inquiry into
the proposed Emergency Anti-terrorism Bill. The Committee is due
to question the Home Office on Wednesday 14 November 2001.

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