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Letters: Control of secret evidence
Letters Today, the House of Commons will debate whether the control order system will be renewed from another year. We wish to express serious concerns about its renewal. Control orders constitute permanent punishment without trial, whereby the innocent can be placed under house arrest on the basis of suspicion and secret intelligence. Control orders also fail to protect the public from individuals who may be genuinely dangerous. Those who may wish to do us harm may easily remove their electronic tags and abscond. The regime has a severe...