Category Archives: Terrorism

Moral consistency, torture and the Left

June 7, 2007 – 12:13 am

I read a very interesting book on the weekend, called “What’s Left?” by Nick Cohen. And then on Monday night I saw a documentary on Four Corners about torture, including the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay. This post is going to be a pastiche of my impressions of experiencing both of these things in [...]

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"Freedom Fighter" not a defence

February 19, 2007 – 10:45 am

Via Jurist, I see that the English Criminal Court of Appeal has held in R v F [2007] EWCA Crim 243 that being a “freedom fighter” is not a defence to offences under UK terrorism laws. The defendant, known only as “F”, is a Libyan refugee who was granted asylum in the UK in 2003 [...]

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