BBC News Thursday, 29 June 2006, 14:31 GMT 15:31 UK
Freed foreign prisoner has killed
 The number of foreign prisoners has risen in the last decade |
The revelation comes in a letter to MPs from Lin Homer, head of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.
The Home Office says the ex-inmate who committed murder could not have been deported in any case because of the current immigration rules.
Ms Homer also said 46 of the 1,013 prisoners involved in the crisis have now been deported.
Only one of the 43 "most serious" released offenders has been deported.
Of the rest, 25 are being detained, five have been bailed, and in four cases it has been decided not to deport them.
Two offenders have died since their release, leaving six of the most serious offenders who still appear to be at large (one of them is out of the country already).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5129822.stm
BBC News Thursday, 29 June 2006, 16:58 GMT 17:58 UK
US Guantanamo tribunals 'illegal'
 Many Guantanamo detainees have been held for years |
Justices upheld the challenge by Osama Bin Laden's ex-driver to his trial at Guantanamo, saying the proceedings violated Geneva Conventions.
The ruling is seen as a major blow to President George W Bush - but it does not order the closure of Guantanamo.
Mr Bush said he would respect it but also protect Americans from "killers".
The Cuba-based facility currently holds about 460 inmates, mostly without charge, whom the US suspects of links to al-Qaeda or the Taleban.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5129904.stm
The Independent Thursday 29th June 2006
Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested
By Henry Porter
In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair's Government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and the British people. The author charts a nine-year assault on civil liberties that reveals the danger of trading freedom for security - and must have Churchill spinning in his grave.http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1129827.ece
The Telegraph Thursday 29th June 2006
Supreme Court blocks Guantanamo trials
| The US Supreme Court has ruled that George W Bush exceeded his authority by ordering military tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees.
In a five-to-three ruling, the majority said the administration had violated both American military law and the Geneva Convention in ordering the military tribunals. The ruling came in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Hamdan, 36, one of about 450 foreign prisoners at Guantanamo, has spent four years in the US prison in Cuba. He faces a single charge of conspiring against US citizens from 1996 to November 2001. Following the ruling, President Bush said there might still be a way to work with Congress to sanction military tribunals. |
