Counter-terrorism and human rights – is the EU on the right course?

The EU responded with commendable - if unusual - alacrity to the worldwide terrorist threat unleashed on 11 September 2001. Now, nearly four years later, Amnesty International has produced a disturbing report questioning how far this objective has been met. Dick Leonard examines the EU's approach to counter-terrorism in an article originally published in The European Voice.

Amnesty International: Report: Counter-terrorism and criminal law in the EU, 2005 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGIOR610132005

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