Blunkett faces battle with judges
13 April 2012
Home Secretary David Blunkett faces a fresh battle with senior judges over his clampdown on terrorist suspects in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
The House of Lords will consider the legal basis on which 13 foreign citizens are being held in high-security British jails, without charge or trial.
The men were rounded up under an emergency law rushed through Parliament by Mr Blunkett only two months after September 11.
Most are asylum-seekers from North Africa who fear they would be tortured if they returned home.
The 2001 Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act involves Britain opting out of article five of the European Convention on Human Rights, which bans detention without trail.
