This week: the case of Abu Qatada, the Jordanian national accused of being one of the UK's most dangerous extremist preachers. With journalist Victoria Brittain

Moazzam Begg on the death of Gadhafi, and meetings with former prisoners during his recent trip to the Libyan capital.

انتقدت منظمة العفو الدولية خطط الحكومة البريطانية لإدخال تشريع جديد لمكافحة الإرهاب، وحذّرت من أنه سيقوّض على نحو خطير حقوق الإنسان في المملكة المتحدة

أعلنت الحكومة البريطانية عزمها على وضع قانون طوارئ لنقل المشتبه في صلتهم بـ"الإرهاب" إلى مكان جديد، وذلك بعد أشهر من وعود بإبطال إجراء مشابه يُعرف باسم "أوامر التحكم

كشفت صحيفة 'إيفننغ ستاندارد' الجمعة أن مشتبهين 'إرهابيين' مُنعوا من العودة إلى منازلهم في لندن لأسباب أمنية، يمكن أن يعودوا قبل أشهر من انطلاق الألعاب الأولمبية العام المقبل للتخطيط لهجمات على غرار هجمات مدينة مومباي الهندية

This week’s column has been what’s commonly referred to as a ‘slow burner’ but, I hope, for good reason. A few weeks ago, Professor Anthony Glees, a terrorism expert based at Buckingham University, myself and the Guardian’s Afua Hirsch took part in a debate on control orders on Channel 4′s flagship ‘10 O’clock live’ show, and although I felt it necessary to counter the “arguments” that were made by Pr Glees, I didn’t want to rush into a precipitated, hasty re-joinder.

Fahad Ansari examines the dubious relationship between Libya and Great Britain during the 'war on terror years' and the subsequent criminalisation of anti-Gadaffi dissidents in the UK.

Since the beginning of the revolutions in the Arab world the most disconcerting day of the week for rulers has been Friday - yaum al-Jum'ah, the Day of Gathering. 

And yet for another year families will have to live with “this thoroughly offensive practice” for another year fathers will be torn from children and for another year wives will live without their husbands.

The inadequate replacement for control orders, the abiding problems with secret evidence, and the abandonment of those facing deportation.

The Government’s response to the control order regime, announced today, has utterly failed in seeking to balance due process for detainees against existent security concerns.

Bruce Kent's letter on the case Mustapha Taleb - a man who was first falsely accused and unanimously acquitted of terrorism charges but has lived under virtual house arrest since 

While secret evidence and Special Advocate procedures vary, they tend to have the same basic underlying features.

Andy Worthington dissects the misconceptions in the opinions of Lord Carlile, responsible for reviewing terrorist legislation in the UK.

Andy Worthington provides hopeful news - but also a reminder of how "terror suspects" facing deportation remain abandoned by the law.

Andy Worthington analyses the resistance to plans to maintain control orders, and asks David Cameron to do the right thing.

I went through this system, I breached this system, I lived it and I can tell Robin Simcox that it is, was, and will continue to be ineffective, couter-productive and disruptive to 'cohesion'.

If a person is suspected of terrorism, then they should be tried in court. To be judged without trial is an abuse of human rights

Cageprisoners presents an exclusive interview with Mustapha Taleb, detained without trial in Britain's Guantanamo for three years, speaking from his cell in Long Lartin. The interview was conducted by former Guantanamo detainee and Cageprisoners' spokesman, Moazzam Begg.

Frightening reports of radicalised prisoners and 'home-grown' terrorists will increase, rather than address, any grievance