Reid’s Curfew Orders on Six Terror Suspects Illegal, say Judges
Britain’s three most senior judges last night delivered a humiliating blow to home secretary John Reid’s anti-terror campaign by ruling his “virtual house arrest” powers incompatible with human rights law. The appeal court judges dismissed a plea from Mr Reid to overturn the earlier high court decision to quash the control orders against six Iraqis, which included a daily 18-hour curfew, saying they found Mr Justice Sullivan’s ruling that they amounted to imprisonment by other means “compelling”.
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