Some mistake, surely

According to the Guardian, the campaigning group Liberty is producing a report tomorrow claiming that Britain's existing 28-day limit on holding terror suspects without charge is already far longer than that for any comparable democracy.

Liberty’s director, Shami Chakrabarti, said the study ‘explodes self-serving assertions about extended detention in inquisitorial Europe and other western democracies. It makes embarrassing reading for all of us in the land that gave Magna Carta to the world.’

Yet we read elsewhere that the suspects in the Meredith Kercher murder case in the Italian town of Perugia might be held for up to a year without being charged; and that isn’t even on suspicion of terrorism.

 

Embarrassing reading, indeed.