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7 July 2010, Tim Kevan, guardian.co.uk Just when we had a glimmer of hope on civil liberties, the home secretary, Theresa May, announces that the government will seek to renew the 28-day detention period without charge pending a review of counter-terrorism legislation. The coalition has had no difficulty reversing plenty of the last government's spending pledges and even, let's face it, details such as the tax on cider. But when it comes to something as profound as our very liberty then it's more of the same. May said the measure allowing terror suspects to be held for 28 days before charge should be temporarily renewed for six months. She could very easily have let it revert to its previous length of 14 days, which even then would have left us with the longest period of such detention in the western world.
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