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UK shame and US pride

By John Hirst

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UK shame and US pride

"I was struck by the symbolism of the coincidence. Within a day, the House of Commons passed the 42-day detention clause and the US supreme court decided that Guantánamo detainees did have the right to apply to the federal courts to challenge their detention under habeas corpus. A source of shame followed by a source of pride. On the surface, 42 days without charge is minuscule compared with the six years spent in Guantánamo Bay by hundreds of equally uncharged detainees. I do not believe that anyone in British detention would be subjected to anything like the kind of interrogation and treatment - whether you call it torture or not - dished out to the Guantánamo captives.

So why are you getting so excited about 42 days, I was asked? If it were just that, I would not be. But whereas the Americans' behaviour was one, admittedly hugely exaggerated, reaction to the events of 9/11, the British legislation is part of a systematic erosion of our civil liberties. Guantánamo, however grotesque, is a one-off, which may soon end; but 42 days is part of a pattern which includes ID cards, CCTV cameras, and a host of other measures whittling away our rights and the rule of law. Unlike Guantánamo, the British laws are meant to last".

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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