- Success for Liberty’s Extradition Watch campaign - Home Secretary announces long overdue review of unfair extradition laws
Today Liberty welcomed the Home Secretary’s announcement that there will be an independent review into Britain’s extradition laws. The review, which wi...
- European torture watchdog in secret visit to UK
Detention without charge or trial under new anti-terrorism powers prompts alarm Investigators from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and ...
- New Liberty Director warns supermarkets: 'We are watching you'
Shami Chakrabarti, the new director of Liberty, is planning a monitoring operation on Britain’s giant retailers. Chakrabarti, formerly a high-flying legal...
- Liberty expresses bitter disappointment at Terror watchdog's reviewÂ
Today the Independent Reviewer Lord Carlile published his review of the definition of terrorism, finding that the current definition is ‘fit for purposeâ...
- Liberty seeks to intervene in Babar Ahmad extradition
Today Liberty will seek to intervene in the High Court in proceedings against the Government and DPP for not allowing Babar Ahmad (accused of setting up ter...
- Liberty demands extradition justice
Today Liberty calls on the Government to activate a provision in the Extradition Act that would introduce a crucial safeguard into the British system. The â...
- Liberty welcomes 'stay of extradition'
Permission was today granted for a student to take his fight against extradition to the House of Lords. Andrew Symeou, 26, is due to be extradited to Greece...
- Liberty condemn High Court extradition decision
Today, the High Court ruled that the extradition of Andrew Symeou must go ahead. Andrew Symeou, a young British man accused of manslaughter, is facing extra...
- Liberty condemns High Court extradition decision
Human rights group Liberty today condemned the High Court decision that Gary McKinnon’s extradition must go ahead. Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syn...
- Liberty welcomes influential committee’s call for urgent extradition reform
Today Liberty welcomed the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee’s urgent call for a major overhaul of the UK’s unfair extradition arrangements...