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User:SusanG/Human rights

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  • Would scrap ID cards and identity database
  • Replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights
  • Opposed the extension of pre-charge detention limit to 42 days, preferring 28-day maximum
  • Would replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights
  • Launch a full review of the Control Orders system designed to protect the public against terrorism
  • Strip local authorities of surveillance powers
  • Review the Preventing Violent Extremism Strategy, which has been accused of encouraging spying on innocent Muslims
  • Support DNA database, but would ensure DNA from innocent people is removed.


  • Attempted to extend pre-charge detention limit to 42 days, but now committed to 28-day limit
  • Will require all foreign nationals to hold an ID card by 2011
  • Scrapped plans for compulsory ID cards for everyone, but would continue to register passport holders on a National *Identity Database and to allow voluntary take-up of ID cards
  • Ensure that serious offenders are added to the DNA database "no matter where or when they were convicted"
  • Retain for six years the DNA profiles of those arrested but not convicted
  • Make sure that UK police and security services "will not co-operate" with those who use torture.


  • Would reduce the pre-charge detention limit to 14 days and scrap control orders
  • Allow intercept evidence in trials
  • Would introduce a written constitution, pending approval in a referendum, that defines and limits the power of government, including a Bill of Rights to protect individual rights
  • Oppose control orders
  • Scrap ID cards and identity database
  • End permanent storage of the DNA of innocent people without their consent
  • Establish an inquiry into allegations of UK complicity in torture
  • Allow parents to stop their children being fingerprinted at school
  • More regulation of CCTV
  • Extend the Freedom of Information Act to all public bodies
  • Legislate to protect non-violent protest
  • Reform libel laws to protect free speech.