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Border Force to be given 'counter-terrorism' powers in crackdown on small boats
30 Jan 2025 13:12 GMT
… be given 'counter terrorism'; powers.
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… the gangs.”
Read more: Terrorism ‘kill guides’ shared in social …
Taking inspiration from counter terrorism laws, ministers now plan to … limit the abuse of human rights law or to use the visa …
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Teen killers like Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana can't be locked up for ever because it would breach human rights law, says minister
24 Jan 2025 08:46 GMT
Murderers who kill before they reach the age of 18 like Southport monster Axel Rudakubana cannot be locked up for the rest of their lives because it would breach their human rights, minister John Healey warned today.
Calls have been mounting for a law …
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War against terrorists: Caught in the middle, survivors count cost of accidental air strikes
17 Jan 2025 04:39 GMT
… military is bound under international human rights law to use force against citizens … .”
Complex, fluid nature of counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency operations responsible for … and fluid nature of counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency operations, tragic …
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UN special rapporteur ‘dismayed’ at Turkey’s jailing of human rights lawyers under terrorism laws
17 Jan 2025 02:08 GMT
… what she described as “spurious terrorism-related charges.”
The group includes … authorities to comply with international human rights law and guarantee fair appeal hearings … , Turkey has arrested thousands on terrorism-related charges, often based on …
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Expert Dismayed By Continued Misuse Of Counter Terrorism Law To Keep Human Rights Defenders In Long-Term Detention
16 Jan 2025 22:40 GMT
… arrested later, tried
separately under terrorism-related charges and convicted in … Government to abide by international human rights
law, and ensure that no defendant …
and fundamental freedoms while countering
terrorism.
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“Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Dept., Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law
18 Dec 2024 17:02 GMT
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AMY GOODMAN: Five Palestinian families have sued the U.S. State Department for violating U.S. federal law by continuing to fund Israeli military units despite their role in gross human rights …
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Lawsuit claims State Department skirting US human rights law with Israel military aid
18 Dec 2024 06:28 GMT
WASHINGTON — The State Department has carved out exceptions for close ally Israel that block a US law restricting foreign military support over human rights abuses, a lawsuit from a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives asserted Tuesday.
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Russian FM calls for Pakistan, Afghanistan, India cooperation against terrorism
15 Jan 2025 14:19 GMT
Sardar Ahmed Shakib, head of the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad, met with Philippa Candler, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Islamabad this week and expressed concern over the detention of Afghan migrants in …
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RAF drone killed Isis fighter ‘as human rights law prevented capture’
28 Nov 2024 01:13 GMT
An RAF Reaper drone fired two hellfire missiles at an Islamic State biological weapons engineer because human rights laws prevented special forces troops from detaining him, The Times understands.
The incident came to light as former members of the SAS …
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Guantanamo to hold ‘illegal aliens’: The Constitution v The President, 2.0
30 Jan 2025 18:42 GMT
… of US efforts to skirt human rights law.
In the early 1990s, … “doing something” about the terrorists who had carried out the … guess you create another 10 terrorists.”
Which brings us to … country. Rather than the worst terrorists promised by his predecessors, …