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UN demands right to silence

01 July 1995

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The United Nations Human Rights Committee has demanded that the Home Office reinstate a defendant's right to remain silent which was abolished earlier this year. It argued that it was a fundamental common law protection, particularly as Britain does not incorporate any human rights conventions into its legislation. The Committee also urged Britain to introduce a Bill of Rights and was critical of the jailing of asylum seekers, the absence of an independent system of investigating complaints against the police (and the military in Northern Ireland) and the failure to treat domestic violence as a human rights issue. Independent 22.7.95.

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