HRW: Preempting Justice - Counterterrorism Laws and Procedures in France

<div class="field_pub_report"><a href="/"></a></div><p><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.3s linear, background; transition: color 0.3s linear, background; outline: none 0px; border: 0px none; color: rgb(241, 88, 37); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#333333" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/HRW_France.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s linear, background; -webkit-transition: color 0.3s linear, background; outline: none 0px; border: 0px none; color: rgb(241, 88, 37); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img alt="" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/icon-pdf.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: none; outline: none 0px; vertical-align: -5px;" />&nbsp;Download the report&nbsp;</a></font></strong></p><p>This 84-page Human Rights Watch report looks at how France uses a vaguely defined &lsquo;terrorism association offense&rsquo; to arrest large numbers of people based on minimal evidence.</p><p>Human Rights Watch documented credible allegations that terrorism suspects are subjected to oppressive questioning in police custody, linked to a policy that delays a suspect&rsquo;s access to a lawyer. Many suspects go on to spend long periods in pre-trial detention. Human Rights Watch talked to two dozen people caught up in terrorism investigations and trials, and conducted interviews with counter-terrorism officials and judicial authorities.</p>