Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide protestors.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    already a decade ago there was no right to have a lawyer present when detained and interrogated at an airport

    That’s been true in the US for decades, and most other countries. Border control is administrative, it isn’t a legal proceeding.

    Though I wonder if you’re thinking of Blair’s “reform” that eliminated the right of silence when being questioned? Well, you can still be silent, but they can hold it against you.

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      Maybe, I lived in the UK when that stuff was changed but it’s been a while and I’m probably a bit off on the details.

      At the time there was some outrage because it suspended rights which were widely believed to be fundamental over there.