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UK: Committee for the Administration of Justice press release

01 July 2007

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Calls for internment must be resisted (pdf) The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) today urged that the UK authorities bear in mind the “unmitigated disaster” that internment proved to be in Northern Ireland when considering appropriate lengths of detention without charge.

Background: Lock terror suspects up indefinitely say police (Observer, link) The proposal, put forward by the President of the Association of Police Chief Officers (ACPO), Ken Jones, who said: "'We are now arguing for judicially supervised detention for as long as it takes" (the current limit for detention without charge is 28 days). This drew the following comment: "It is coming to the point when we have to ask serious questions about the role of ACPO in a constitutional democracy,'" said Shami Chakrabarti, director of the civil rights group Liberty. "We elect politicians to determine legislation and we expect chief constables to uphold the rule of law, not campaign for internment."

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