Lessons from the Strange Case of Dr Haneef
07.27.07 - 08:49am
The Australian case, various British detention cases over the last few years and, of course, Guantanamo Bay, illustrate the dangers of the state having the power to lock people up without legal recourse. Once the state has you in its sights all kinds of factors come into play, totalitarian paranoia and the sheer bloody-minded refusal to admit a mistake among them. Civil liberties groups and, hopefully, a cross-party alliance of MPs, have a difficult fight on their hands to stop the British Government’s creeping power grab once again.
