Media snapshot on secret evidence
March 2010
The Guardian
Government attempts to keep torture case secret: Afua Hirsch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/08/rendition-torture-case-secret
Committee urges ministers to abandon control orders: Andrew Sparrow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/26/ministers-urged-abandon-control-orders
The Telegraph
Court of Appeal to hear Government’s battle to keep ‘torture’ evidence secret
December 2009
BBC
Suspects win High Court case on secret evidence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8388547.stm
The Guardian
High court judgment says suspects cannot be detained without being able to answer charges made against them: Haroon Siddique and Ian Cobain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/01/secret-evidence-trial-terrorism-government
The government’s policy of imprisoning terror suspects without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence may now be over:Andy Worthington.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/dec/02/secret-evidence
July 2009
The Guardian
Personal testimonies of those detained under Britain’s secret evidence laws
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/slow-torture
The Independent
The secret trials that besmirch Britain’s immigration law: Paul Donovan.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/paul-donovan-the-secret-trials-that-besmirch-britains-immigration-law-1762076.html
Holding suspects on secret evidence disgraces justice – letter from Paul Donovan.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-immigration-and-justice-1734435.html
June 2009
The Guardian
CASE letter concerning the control order judgment on Thursday:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/12/letters-secrecy-undermining-justice
Law Lords give ruling on secret evidence: Alan Travis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/10/secret-evidence-legal-status
The Independent
Law lords ban use of secret evidence: Michael Savage
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/law-lords-ban-use-of-secret-evidence-1702165.html
Institute of Race Relations
No To Secret Evidence: Frances Webber
http://www.irr.org.uk/2009/june/bw000029.html
The Wardman Wire
Diane Abbott podcast interview: Trials using Secret Evidence, By Charon QC
http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2009/06/25/dian-abbott-podcast-interview-trials-using-secret-evidence-by-charon-qc/
April 2009
The Independent
Deportees should have rights too: Paul Donovan
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/paul-donovan-deportees-should-have-rights-too-1674767.html
New Statesman
Out of control orders: Paul Donovan
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/04/taleb-deportations-algeria
February 2009
Faraj Hassan came to the UK in 2002, fleeing persecution in his native Libya. He was arrested shortly thereafter and spent 15 months in detention without trial before being eventually charged under the Terrorism Act in 2003 and served with an Italian extradition warrant. Although the extradition order was ultimately suspended he continued to be detained for another four years on the basis of secret evidence in HMP Long Lartin, with the government seeking to deport him to Libya. Whilst his deportation was ruled unlawful, he is now subject to a control order in addition to a UN financial sanction which prevents him from obtaining any income.
Listen to Faraj speaking about his ordeal here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQHW8LQtzYY
March 2007
The Guardian
‘G’ recalls the last few years of detention and living under Control Orders and SIAC bail conditons.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/mar/28/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices
