Storm over Euro Court ruling
NZPA-PA London A political storm has erupted after a court ruled that Britain’s antiterrorist laws are in breach of the European Human Rights Convention. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said the detention of four men from Northern Ireland, held for more than four days and then released without charge, breached the requirement that anyone arrested on suspicion of ter-
rorist acts must be taken “promptly” before a court. The judgment put pressure on the Government over the provisions of its new Prevention of Terrorism Bill— and at Westminster there were calls for Mrs Thatcher to reject the court’s verdict. The Government immediately defended the laws and said the security forces would continue to have adequate powers to tackle terrorism vigorously.
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Press, 1 December 1988, Page 8
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