Euro court slaps down repressive PSNI powers

The British government has been forced to reconsider stop-and-search powers following a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that the power to search people without suspicion - under Section 44 of Britain’s ‘Terrorism Act 2000’ - is illegal.

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