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Article: Government offer over terror detention branded 'inadequate'
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- June 5, 2008
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Government efforts to win support for 42-day terror detention
without trial were struck a serious blow today when an influential
parliamentary committee said it remained opposed to the extension.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has outlined a series of concessions
in a last-ditch bid to head off a highly-damaging Labour backbench
Commons revolt next week.
But the joint committee on human rights said the changes were
"inadequate" and the Government had still failed to show there was a
growing threat to the UK justifying the longer period.
The committee, chaired by Labour MP Andrew Dismore, said the
extra safeguards set out by Ms Smith "are inadequate to protect
individuals against the threat of ...