by MONITOR
TEN foreign men who have been held in Britain's Belmarsh prison since December 2001 were told yesterday by the Court of Appeal that the Government is entitled to continue to imprison them without bringing them to trial, under the AntiTerrorism, Crime and Security Act. The men had previously applied to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (which sits in secret) for a review of their cases but were refused on the grounds that the Home Secretary held sound material that showed them to be a risk to national security. The lawyers for these detainees argued at the Court of Appeal that this unspecified sound material probably came from the interrogation of prisoners at America's Guantanamo Bay detention facility and may have been obtained by ill-treatment or torture and should therefore be inadmissable, but the judges decided by 2-1 that no evidence had been produced to support this allegation.
NO RIGHTS AT ALL
12/08/2004 00:00
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