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UK Anti-Terrorism Bill Becomes Law
An emergency anti-terror legislation of Britain has become law on Friday after the government compromised on key issues.
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An emergency anti-terror legislation of Britain has become law on Friday after the government compromised on key issues.
The House of Lords finally agreed to the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill early on Friday morning, allowing it to become law once it received royal assent shortly afterwards.
In a major compromise, Home Secretary David Blunkett agreed to drop proposals making incitement to religious hatred a criminal offense, a move which was designed to clear the way for the controversial bill to be on the statute book by Christmas.
Despite the concessions, the bill gives police and security services significantly more powers.
It allows foreign terror suspects to be detained without trial where they cannot be deported. That power will, however, have to be renewed by Parliament after 15 months.
The British government stressed there were no plans to introduce a separate bill on the dropped religious incitement provision.
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