UK is set to reduce pre-charge detention of terror suspects from 28 days to 14.
Ed Balls, the Labour party's shadow secretary, said they got the balance on civil liberties wrong when they were in power by trying to increase the length of detention to 90 and then 42 days. He said they suffered damage to their reputation as a result.
But he added that "it was really hard. We had these massive terror threats, we had the plots" and they "acted and got the resources in and updated our legislation."
Control orders introduced in 2005 that place terror suspects under close supervision are also under review over complaints that it was too harsh.
Source: BBC
Comment: Some people still have not woken up the new reality of Islamic terror. This is an age of Terror. Laws and measures should be there before they are needed and not made as a knee-jerk reaction in the aftermath of some terrorist atrocity.
Concerns about civil liberties could be addressed by clearly restricting these forceful measures to the fight against terrorism and not used in other areas. This way the rest of the population unconnected to terror can remain untouched by them.
As Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said, terrorists "offers no quarter, obeys no law and holds nothing sacred." They kill and main innocent civilians deliberately, and yet some people are more concerned about their 'rights' than the life of their victims.
There is also a need to watch out for terrorists and their supporters pretending to be 'Human-yeah-Right' activists to infiltrate the system and work from the inside, as it was in the case of Arab-Israeli human rights activist Amir Makhoul who has pleaded guilty to spying for enemy of Israel.
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