Exporting Democracy
More from Hansard*. This time a written answer from Defence Minister, Adam Ingram:
Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many persons arrested by British service personnel in Iraq have been in custody for over a year without charges having been brought against them. [215479]
Mr. Ingram: Two internees originally taken into custody by the United Kingdom have been held for more than a year. Both are held at the Divisional Temporary Detention Facility in Basrah Province. They were interned on the basis that they represented an imperative threat to security and not on the basis that they were suspected of any specific criminal offence.
Was it a reasonable suspicion of “an imperative threat”, a balance of probabilities, or beyond reasonable doubt? Notice the answer says the two have been held for over a year but not how much more.
*It takes about ten minutes to sift through a day’s worth of Hansard to see if there’s any gold. I’m surprised more bloggers don’t do it - there’s sometimes some good stuff in there that the news outlets don’t pick up.
Posted on April 6th, 2005 at 4:58 pm
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Of course, you should use TheyWorkForYou rather than Hansard, as the whole thing is way cooler - for example, here’s the exchange you quote from above.
That is good. On the links list it shall go.