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14 Feb 2006, 6:31 am
Eighteen control orders have so far been issued by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke since the Prevention of Terrorism [read post]
9 Feb 2006, 6:25 pm
[JURIST Europe] In an apparent political climbdown, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] has approved publication of proposed amendments to the controversial British Identity Cards Bill [official PDF text] that would require another Act of Parliament be passed to make the cards mandatory. [read post]
7 Feb 2006, 2:31 am
[JURIST] Following angry protests over the Muhammad cartoons [JURIST news archive] by British Muslims in London late last week, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] Tuesday renewed calls for the inclusion of a "glorifying terrorism" offense in the proposed Terrorism Bill [text; Home Office backgrounder] still under consideration by parliament. [read post]
26 Jan 2006, 11:20 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] was pressured by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official website] to ban two Islamic parties in Great Britain after the July 2005 London bombings [JURIST news archive], according to civil service e-mails leaked [New Statesman article] to a British magazine. [read post]
10 Jan 2006, 5:56 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] has rejected criticisms by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] that Britain's proposed anti-terrorism bill [text] violates basic rights and sets a "worrying precedent. [read post]
16 Dec 2005, 12:22 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] said Thursday that he was dropping a contentious provision in proposed new UK anti-terrorism legislation [text] introduced in the wake of the July London bombings [JURIST news archive] that would have permited authorities to close British mosques suspected of connections with extremists. [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 10:35 am
[JURIST] Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) [official website] has asked Home Secretary Charles Clarke to approve an investigation [IPCC press release] into the way Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair [official profile] handled the July subway shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes. [read post]
16 Nov 2005, 1:55 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] ordered Wednesday that British citizen Babar Ahmad [advocacy website; BBC profile] be extradited to the United States where he will face charges of terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans and running a website used to fund terrorists and recruit al Qaeda members. [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 1:52 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] is taking the blame for a defeat [JURIST report] Wednesday in the UK House of Commons [official website] of a key provision of the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill [text] that would have authorized the detention of terror suspects without charge for up to 90 days. [read post]
7 Nov 2005, 10:24 am
[JURIST] British Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] announced late Monday after consultations with government Labour Party MPs that the government will in fact not back down on a provision of the proposed Terrorism Bill [official text] that would allow terror suspects to be detained for up to 90 days without being charged with a crime, but will instead include a sunset clause in the [read post]
24 Oct 2005, 3:21 pm
[JURIST] Speaking before the UK Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights [official website] Monday, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] said that new anti-terror legislation [JURIST document] recently proposed by the government would have a direct impact on militant animal rights groups that encourage deadly radical behavior. [read post]
13 Oct 2005, 1:31 pm
[JURIST] Following a proposal [JURIST report] Monday by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile], Britain's Parliament [official website] on Thursday added 15 terror organizations with suspected links to al Qaeda to a list of 25 organizations already banned under the Terrorism Act 2000 [text]. [read post]
15 Sep 2005, 3:52 am
[JURIST UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] Thursday released draft anti-terrorism legislation [PDF text] that includes terms allowing police to detain terror suspects for up to three months without charge and creating a new criminal offense for "glorifying terrorism. [read post]
25 Aug 2005, 5:05 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] Wednesday denounced a statement issued by the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website] Manfred Nowak urging the UK to refrain from deporting Islamic radicals [JURIST report] for fear that they will face torture by their home countries. [read post]
24 Aug 2005, 2:26 am
Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] said the measure, designed to crack down on radical Islamic preachers, is a way to counter "those who seek to foster hatred or promote terrorism. [read post]
18 Jul 2005, 7:57 am
[JURIST] UK Home Office [official website] Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] said on Monday that the three main political parties in the UK - Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal-Democrats - have reached an agreement in principal regarding new anti-terrorism legislation in the wake of the London bombings. [read post]
14 Jul 2005, 2:23 am
[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official website] on Thursday ordered an immediate review of his exclusion and deportation powers. [read post]
12 Jul 2005, 2:50 am
[JURIST] Echoing earlier statements [JURIST report] by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke after last week's London bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons Monday that he intended to stick by the current timetable for new counter-terrorism legislation, scheduled to go before parliament in the fall and come into effect by the following spring. [read post]
24 May 2005, 4:06 pm
[JURIST] British Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official website] announced Tuesday that three British men, all Greenwich Natwest [corporate website] bankers, will be extradited to the US to face trial for their involvment in the Enron scandal. [read post]
22 Mar 2005, 3:12 pm
[JURIST] A UK court on Tuesday granted Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] more time to decide on a US request to extradite three British bankers indicted on fraud charges stemming from the Enron scandal. [read post]
