[news] Anti-Terrorism legislation under fire in US and UK

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"American and British judges have ruled that their governments cannot go on detaining suspects without giving them acceptable recourse to the courts. In the latest such ruling in America, last week, a judge found that Mr Bush had greatly exceeded his powers in continuing to detain without charge Jose Padilla, who is accused of conspiring to build a radioactive 'dirty bomb'. And on Thursday March 10th, Mr Blair was in a head-on confrontation with Parliament's upper house, the Lords, which voted, for the third time in four days, to reject key parts of a new anti-terror bill that the prime minister is trying to rush in. The bill must be made law by this weekend, otherwise a court ruling will force the government to let the Belmarsh detainees walk free."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/72735/5330