Hearts and Minds

Putting Human Rights at the Center of United Kingdom Counterterrorism Policy

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• Executive Summary

• Recommendations

• Introduction

• Uphold the Prohibition on Torture and Ill-Treatment

• Abandon the policy of deportation with assurances

• Abandon efforts to weaken European standards on torture and ill-treatment

• Reinforce the international ban on torture

• Prosecution as a Core Counterterrorism Strategy

• Relax the ban on intercept evidence

• Demonstrate efforts to prosecute

• No Further Extension of Pre-charge Detention

• Improve Safeguards for Control Orders

• Protect Freedom of Expression

• Conclusion

 

June 2007    Number 3