Sentence examples for suspect without charge from inspiring English sources

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He'd been arrested in an "anti-terror raid" for having allegedly traveled to assist rebels in Syria but was held for seven months, despite laws outlined in the 2006 Terrorism Act that no terror suspect without charge can be held for more than 90 days.

(In this they are aided greatly by their ability to hold a suspect without charge for up to 23 days).

The extension of the time police can hold a suspect without charge from 14 days to three months could fall into this category.

The Australian federal government just announced a suite of new anti-terror laws that will lower the age that control orders can be applied, and extend the period police can hold a terror suspect 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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It creates a new offence of "advocating terrorism" and extends to 2025 ASIO's powers to detain and question suspects without charge; those powers had been due to expire next year.

The announcement by the government came after Falconer told peers how he had changed his mind after supporting Tony Blair's plan to detain terror suspects without charge for 90 days in 2005.

Gordon Brown last night abandoned his parliamentary battle to allow police to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days, after the Lords overwhelmingly rejected the proposal by 191 votes.

At worst it casts doubt on Barack Obama's genuine determination to close Guantánamo which, since it began detaining terror suspects without charge or trial in January 2002, has flouted international law and strained relations with global allies.

The government lost a vote on one clause of the bill allowing 90 days' detention for terror suspects without charge, and it is now in a battle with the Lords over a clause allowing an offence of "glorifying" terrorism.

The government again sought the power to jail terrorism suspects without charge for up to 42 days, and the proposal brought immediate pledges of defeat from opposition parties and outrage from civil rights groups.

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