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October 4, 2005
UK: Charles Clarke's Anti-Islamist Agenda Comes Under Fire
Today, the policies which Britain's Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, introduced to deal with radical Islamists and preachers of hate, have been attacked. Before, he was attacked for those policies by civil libertarians. Then the policies were attacked by the judiciary and the EU.
Now he has different critics. Firstly, police and immigration officials criticized the enactment of these policies, and later Manfrad Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, advised Clarke not to deport militants to any country which is suspected of committing torture. Even if a country had agreed that it would not commit acts of torture against deportees, Nowak claimed that this was no guarantee.
This morning, the Times described how Clarke, who had five suspected Islamists arrested early on Monday, had been blamed by police and senior immigration officers for only arresting the "small fry" while the big sharks were still walking free. We reported yesterday on those raids. This morning, the details of one of the five detained in pre-dawn raids, were sketched out a bit more fully by a corredpondent from the Western Mail. The militant suspect, originally from Libya, was taken from a house in Thornhill Stret, Cardiff, around 6 am. The man had lived there with a wife and small children. About 8 am, neighbours noticed the woman being escorted into an unmarked car. The Home Office has refused to disclose details of this man, or the identities of the other four suspected militants, though all five are scheduled for deportation.
The complaints of Manfrad Nowak from the UN, as given by Reuters are of a different nature. We reported earlier how Clarke had attempted to get "agreements" from countries where individuals may have received death sentences or torture that the individuals would not be treated inhumanely. Upon hearing UN criticism, Clarke objected "in the strongest possible terms" that Nowak's viiews were being expressed without prior consultation with London. He intended to bring up the matter with Kofi Annan in a meeting today.
"The United Nations ought to be supporting government-to-government treaties in areas such as this," he told a small group of reporters."
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 4, 2005 2:29 PM
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How can any western Government even think of sending anyone back to a country that uses torture, the torture methods used are barbaric and cruel, I know from first hand as a relative of one of the Britons released from Saudi Arabia, proof of abuse by ultrasound was obtained in an attempt to bring the jailers to justice, I know for a fact that this cruelty can take away a mans dignity and leave him disabled for life. put a stop to torture NOW, think of the poor souls who are going through unimaginable pain think of their screams in a foreign jail in a nightmarish hell...Mary Martini UK
Posted by: Mary Martini at October 4, 2005 6:13 PM
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