Liberty on Control Orders – What you can do
Liberty is steping up its campagin against control orders. Useful materials about control orders can found at www.unsafeunfair.org.uk
Liberty is asking concerned individuals to take action, particularly lobbying their MP and signing Liberty’s petition.
Control orders are unsafe and unfair – take action to end them today
The new coalition government has sought to bind itself together with the language of civil liberties. May’s Queens Speech included a number of welcome commitments such as scrapping ID cards, looking at the police’s DNA database, protecting the right to trial by jury, and boosting the right to peaceful protest.
But what about control orders?
Control orders, the previous Government’s unsafe and unfair alternative to charge and trial for terror suspects, were only ever intended to be temporary. To stay in force, the policy needs to be renewed by Parliament each year. Now is the time to act to prevent the policy being renewed once more. The Tories have previously called the controll orders “inherently objectionable”, and the Lib Dems pledged to repeal control orders in their 2010 manifesto. In fact neither party has voted for them for the last three years.
What are control orders?
Control orders place terror suspects under broad and indefinite restrictions – like curfews, tagging and constant monitoring. Without the chance to defend themselves in the courts and test the evidence against them, controlees live in a state of limbo between suspicion and proof.
Take Action
But now is the time to act. This unsafe and unfair policy must be abolished at the earliest opportunity. Help your elected representatives see that control orders safeguard neither our security nor our liberty
- Lobby your MP to vote against control orders
- Sign up to our Petition to End Control Orders and help us get to 5,000 names
- Join Liberty, enable us to continue our vital work
- Find out more at www.unsafeunfair.org.uk
