Sentence examples for trial foreigners from inspiring English sources

Britain has gone further than any other country in Europe with a new antiterror bill that among other things gives prosecutors the right to detain indefinitely and without trial foreigners suspected of terrorist links.

Most European countries have tightened security measures in response to the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, but Britain has gone the furthest with its proposed law that would give prosecutors the right to detain indefinitely and without trial foreigners suspected of terrorist links.

Prime Minister Tony Blair's government asked Parliament today for emergency powers to permit the detention without trial of foreigners suspected of terrorism.

B5 BRITAIN SEEKS EXTRA POWERS -- Prime Minister Tony Blair's government asked Parliament for emergency powers to permit the detention without trial of foreigners suspected of terrorism.

One Western diplomat, who nonetheless supports a trial, said foreigners "have had a pretty big hand" in creating Cambodia's current chaos.

"If we did not have these trials, then foreigners might forget the Nazis".

The official said Mr. Rumsfeld generally favored tribunals over civilian jury trials for foreigners charged with terrorism but had not said how quickly the first one should be convened.

In medieval English law, the ordeal was an appropriate trial for "the foreigner or friendless man".

The law created a separate, substandard and clearly unconstitutional system of trial and punishment for foreigners.

While Northern Alliance leaders are offering amnesty for most Taliban soldiers, they say they want to put the foreigners on trial, with death as a potential punishment.

Of course it would be wrong for just any judge applying just any law to reach beyond his borders and pluck foreigners for trial.