Law Lords rule on torture

The Law Lords have ruled very strongly against the use of evidence obtained by torture, wherever the torture took place. This landmark judgement means that the government must step down from its attempts to use torture based evidence in the cases of alleged terrorists.

In this instance the judiciary has acted correctly, as the legal buffer to an increasingly illegally-minded and murderous government. This is a major boost to the human rights movement in the UK, and represents a step back from the brink.

Other good news: Pinter's Nobel prize acceptance speech was a wonderful and hard-hitting piece of work. Margaret Thatcher's in hospital.

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December 8, 2005 | Filed Under 'Terror', Politics, UK 

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2 Responses to “Law Lords rule on torture”

  1. nos on December 12th, 2005 6:09 am

    good news tom…. any thoughts on the aussie riots?

  2. Tom on December 12th, 2005 11:24 am

    To be honest, they weren't reported here. From what I can see, the whole thing was instigated by neo-nazis, and this doesn't surprise me at all. Australia - for all its multiculturalism - has more overt racism than any other country I've spent time in, and John Howard's jingoistic scaremongering probably doesn't help.

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