Police are stopping more London photographers from taking photographs under the anti-terror laws than ever before, it was reported this week. Among the victims is Reuben Powell, a white, middle-aged, middle-class artist, who has been photographing and drawing life around the capital’s Elephant & Castle for 25 years, was arrested last week. Photographing the old…
By Madeline Chambers and Matthew Jones British police said they would deport seven Algerians seized as national security threats, hours before the Government unveiled plans to hold terror suspects without charge for up to three months. A Home Office source said the men were former defendants, accused but never convicted, of involvement in a 2002…
PARIS (Reuters) – A top European human rights watchdog said on Wednesday Britain’s anti-terrorism laws breached European standards and could force London to opt out of parts of the European Convention on Human Rights. Despite improvements, Britain still tended to see human rights as an obstacle to the criminal justice system, the Council of Europe’s…
