United Kingdom: Creating a shadow criminal justice system in the name of "fighting international terrorism"

United Kingdom: Creating a shadow criminal justice system in the name of "fighting international terrorism"

Index Number: EUR 45/019/2001
Date Published: 16 November 2001
Categories: UK, Western Europe

This briefing focuses on Part 4 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, which is entitled "Immigration and Asylum". Part 4 lays out procedures for Executive certification of a person as a suspected international terrorist and a risk to national security, and their consequent indefinite detention, as well as the exclusion from asylum procedures for people certified by the Executive as being suspected international terrorists. \n\t