It is impossible to predict when and how much will be available. Not perhaps a forest of hands waving over the breakfast toast and marmalade. It concentrated on a practical critique of the Union’s current day-to-day failures And that was interesting. The essential point – and one we call upon the Government to recognise – is that the detainees are held in contravention of international standards, and it is this basic violation of fundamental rights that has led the hunger strikers to mount their protest.
We are therefore seeking an early meeting with the Home Secretary to ask him:To establish, as a matter of urgency, an ad hoc independent panel to review the cases of all those asylum-seekers held in detention, with the power to recommend release in all cases where the Home Office is unable to demonstrate to the panel’s satisfaction that continued detention is necessary and for reasons recognised as legitimate by relevant international standards.To give an undertaking to act upon the recommendations of the ad hoc panel (through the existing powers to grant them temporary admission).To undertake an urgent review of Home Office policy and practice in respect of such detention, with a view to bringing these into line with internationalstandards.We firmly believe that the Government’s acceptance of these recommendations could bring about an immediate end to the hunger strike, thereby removing the prospect of a wholly unnecessarytragedy.Yours faithfully,DAVID BULLDirectorAmnesty International(British Section)HELEN BAMBERDirectorMedical Foundation forthe Care of Torture VictimsLondon, EC129 March. Small gifts worth up to pounds 250 each year to individuals are outside the inheritance tax net, and so are further gifts up to the current annual exemption limit of pounds 3,000. The music, by Sylvester Levay, is rather like a guided tour through the musicals of the past 20 years, but its subject matter – the dance of death accompanying the break-up of the Habsburg Empire – is purely Viennese. In any case, it is difficult to see why the Home Office should be left to decide on an issue involving such a complex mixture of ethics, taste, scientific research and human rights..

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