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Article: Terror laws shouldn't be left to politicians: British expert

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March 8, 2006
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New Delhi, March 8 -- India should consider appointing an independent review commission to examine anti-terrorism legislation in order to improve its functioning, Britain's watchdog on terror laws has suggested.

"The working of terror laws is too tricky to be left just to the political class. A commission could help for meaningful debate," Lord Alexander Carlile, a Liberal Democrat who is the official overseer of anti-terrorist legislation in Britain, told IANS in an interview.

Currently on a tour of four countries in the subcontinent to study anti-terror laws and prepare a new report for a "proposed new definition of terrorism" for Britain, Carlile has been meeting up lawmakers, ...

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