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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Control Orders in tatters as yet another is revoked

Control Orders in tatters as yet another is revoked

Government forced to revoke second control order against terror suspect

Policy of using virtual house arrest under fire once more as home secretary refuses to reveal 'secret' evidence against imam


"The government's controversial regime of using virtual house arrest against terror suspects has suffered a fresh blow with a decision by the home secretary, Alan Johnson, to revoke a second control order rather than disclose the "secret" evidence in the case.

Johnson has written to the lawyers of a former imam to the Iraqi community in Britain, known for legal reasons only as AE, telling them that he made the decision after considering the impact of a law lords ruling in June that he was obliged to disclose the detail of the allegations against him".

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