Coalition Against Secret Evidence

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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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7394511/Court-of-Appeal-to-hear-Governments-battle-to-keep-torture-evidence-secret.html

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

Written by anunnaki70

June 14, 2009 at 10:37 pm

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