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700 Days Imprisoned Without Trial

Brian B | 16.11.2003 00:13

700 Days. This is how long the British Government have now detained people under new terrorism laws without charging them or putting them on trial.

The website for the Liberty civil liberties organisation has a detention-o-meter showing how long prisoners have been locked up in Britain without any charge or trial. This is now showing as 700 days.

This is what Libery says:

No evidence, no trial, no justice

In high security prisons in Britain, men not convicted, not even charged with any crime are locked up. They have had no trial and don

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UK's Guantanamo Bay

16.11.2003 12:01

See www.statewatch.org. for full report - these men are being held without trial on less evidence than you would need to secure a verdict at County Court.

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