Innocent yet jailed: why 42 days is insupportable.

Read this true life occurance. Don't quibble, just do it, it won't take long.
Hicham Yezza, an employee of the University of Nottingham, was arrested and detained without charge for saving a declassified, freely available document entitled 'al Qaida Training Manual' onto his computer. Hicham was sent the document by his friend Rizwaan Sabir, who he was helping with his research into terrorism for a Politics PHD. Hicham never opened the document, it sat forgotten and unread on his computer.

On May 14, Hicham and Rizwaan were arrested; it was 48 hours before Hicham was told why he was being held. He was detained without charge for 6 days.

The Counter-Terrorism Bill would allow the police to lock you up like this not for 6, but for 42 days. On its first reading, it was pushed through the Commons by only 9 votes; that's only a few MPs whose minds we have to change.

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The only way that it could be countenanced would be to have a strong jeopardy system: if you arrest and detain someone and you are wrong you do the same time or pay them compensation: you personally, and any judge that grants the extra time, same deal. That should focus minds. Perhaps someone should offer the government that deal: yes you can have it provided this is the quid pro quo and furthermore each member of the cabinet is accountable in a similar way.