Tuesday 1 April sees the second reading of the Counter-Terrorism Bill. The government wants to allow police to lock people up for six weeks without even charging them with an offence – a proposal that would undermine civil liberties, damage community relations and have a seriously damaging effect on any individuals who were affected.

We’re asking people to sign the “Not a day longer” e-petition calling on the government to abandon plans to extend the time for which police can hold terrorism suspects without charge.

The petition is on the No.10 website

The Independent is running a story on this today and Sunny Hurndal’s Liberal Conspiracy site has spearheaded the campaign against 42 days. We’ve got a press release out on the issue too – you can find it here.

The list of people standing up against these plans is growing longer every day. Please sign up, write to your MP and do all you can to spread the word.

And look out for our new report on China and the Olympics, which comes out on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning!

Until next time,

Steve
Amnesty’s Project Blog Team