Review All Anti-Terrorism Laws, say MPs

All counter-terrorism laws passed since 11 September 2001 should be reviewed to see if they are still necessary, says a committee of MPs and peers.

It questioned whether ministers could legitimately argue, nine years on, that a "public emergency threatening the life of the nation" remained.

And it said the government's "narrow" definition of what amounted to complicity in torture was "worrying".'

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