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More than 200 Britons who were unable to get access to a lawyer or were detained without charge sought legal assistance from an international NGO which helps people caught up in unjust or corrupt criminal justice systems.
ACCURACY: Although the Justice Department dropped its investigation into Mr. Torricelli's campaign and personal finances in January without seeking criminal charges, the letter released by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics notes that he violated Senate gift rules and "related statutes".
A four-year federal investigation into the relationship ended in January without prosecutors seeking criminal charges.
This month, federal prosecutors ended an investigation of Mr. Torricelli's campaign finances, which had cast doubt on his future for three years, without seeking charges.
While the 14 were being held all day without charge, their lawyers sought a writ of habeas corpus for their release on the ground of illegal deten tion.
"Not since the McCarthy era has the US sought to legislate the indefinite detention of people without charge or trial and without any real ability to challenge their detention," said Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch.
A control order could also be sought against a person, and Asio has further powers to detain someone without charge.
One politician had his shirt torn, while other parliament members tore up and threw copies of the bill, which seeks to increase the number of days authorities can detain a terrorism suspect without charge, from 90 to 360.
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The bill seeks to substantially increase the powers of the security agency and police to detain people without charge.
Cutting the period terrorist suspects can be detained without charge from 28 to 14 days reflects the fact that the police have not sought a period longer than 14 days since 2007.
