January 13, 2010
In case you’re interested, here’s the order, made under section 3(6) of the Terrorism Act 2000, by means of which Alan Johnson has banned “Islam4UK” under several alternative names. The Order was made on Monday, which suggests it was drafted last week – clearly in response to Anjem Choudary’s threat of a march in Wootton [...]
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January 13, 2010
Yesterday the ECtHR ruled that power to stop and search people under sections 44 and 45 of the Terrorism Act 2000 to search for terrorism-related articles are neither sufficiently circumscribed nor subject to adequate legal safeguards against abuse; they are not therefore “in accordance with the law” for the purposes of the article 8 Convention [...]
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