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UK: Reactions to the government's new plans to tackle terrorism

01 August 2005

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Gareth Peirce is lawyer who has represented many terror suspects in the British courts commented on the Prime Minister's statement:

"There is nothing I can say as a lawyer that can adequately react to so terrifying an announcement. This is a statement of dangerous self-delusion, deliberately ignoring history, legality, principle and justice."

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