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Slow torture

The government’s powers to impose restrictions on terror suspects – without a trial – amounting to virtual house arrest have been condemned as draconian by civil liberties campaigners.

In a series of five films, actors read the personal testimonies of those detained under Britain's secret evidence laws and campaigners and human rights lawyers debate the issues raised.
  • Slow Torture: Detainee U

  • The Royal Courts of Justice

    Secret evidence and closed courts

  • Afua Hirsch

    Secret evidence imperils the core values of British justice

    Afua Hirsch

    Afua Hirsch: To have the basis of a case against you withheld tests the very idea of a fair trial – yet secrecy is seeping across the system

  • The case for secret evidence

    David Hanson

    David Hanson: Slow Torture: The government has not discarded our legal traditions – we need secret evidence to protect the public from terrorism

  • Slow Torture: Detainee BB

    Video: My bail conditions 'affect my whole family. The girls can't have friends around, nobody is allowed in unless they are Home Office cleared.' Actor Nayef Rashed reads the testimony of detainee BB

  • Dismantle the secret state

    Andy Worthington
  • Slow Torture: Detainee VV

  • Secret evidence is damaging justice

    Paul Troop
  • Slow Torture: Detainee Z

  • Caught in a Home Office trap

    Saleyha Ahsan
  • Slow Torture: Detainee Y

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