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Elaine Moore bomb charges dropped

01 September 1998

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Elaine Moore, a 21-year old Irish woman from Dublin, who was arrested in July after moving to London to work for a computer company, and accused of conspiring to cause explosions, had all the charges against her dropped in October. Ms Moore was held in the all-male Woodhall prison in Milton Keynes, Bucks, an experience that her solicitor, Gareth Peirce, described as "appalling": "On top of facing those charges she was held in isolation in an all-male prison which is used for the most dangerous and disruptive prisoners." Ms Moore was arrested at her Hampstead home after a raid by the anti-terrorist squad under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The PTA, which has long been criticised by civil liberties groups for its indiscriminate and arbitrary powers, is to be supplemented by even more draconian and unaccountable measures that Amnesty International have condemned for "violat[ing] the government's human rights obligations under international law."

Amnesty International "A briefing on the legislative measures proposed by the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Omagh bombing" 28.8.98.

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