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| UK minister to condemn Guantanamo | UK minister to condemn Guantanamo |
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| A Cabinet minister is due to denounce Guantanamo Bay detention centre as a "shocking affront to the principles of democracy", it has emerged. | |
| The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, is expected to voice the most outspoken criticism of US terror policy yet made by a senior minister. | The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, is expected to voice the most outspoken criticism of US terror policy yet made by a senior minister. |
| He will accuse the US of "deliberately seeking to put the detainees beyond the reach of the law in Guantanamo Bay" | He will accuse the US of "deliberately seeking to put the detainees beyond the reach of the law in Guantanamo Bay" |
| He will make the comments in a speech in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday. | He will make the comments in a speech in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday. |
| It will be the second time Lord Falconer has spoken out about the controversial terror camp, where 450 terror suspects are thought to be detained. | |
| In June this year the lord chancellor denounced the terror camp in Cuba as a "recruiting agent" for terrorism, and described the existence of the base as "intolerable and wrong". | |
| 'Anomaly' | |
| In his latest speech, Lord Falconer is due to say: "It is a part of the acceptance of the rule of law that the courts will be able to exercise jurisdiction over the executive. | |
| "Otherwise the conduct of the executive is not defined and restrained by law. | |
| "It is because of that principle, that the USA, deliberately seeking to put the detainees beyond the reach of the law in Guantanamo Bay, is so shocking an affront to the principles of democracy. | |
| "Without independent judicial control, we cannot give effect to the essential values of our society." | |
| He will make the comments in the Magna Carta Lecture, delivered annually in Australia by senior British legal figures, to an audience of senators, MPs, judges and academics at the Supreme Court of New South Wales. | |
| The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, has described the Guantanamo camp as "unacceptable" and called for it to be closed. | |
| Prime Minister Tony Blair has been more muted, simply calling it an "anomaly". |