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TERROR suspects who have not been convicted of any crime could face indefinite controls on their freedoms such as tagging and enforced curfews under proposed new laws.
The Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill, introduced in Parliament today, has been described by ministers as the largest overhaul of terrorist sentencing and monitoring in decades.
The proposed legislation is intended to extend terrorism-prevention and investigation measures (Tpims) and reduce the burden of proof required to use them.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
Court of Appeal rules key anti-protest legislation was forced through unlawfully