Secret evidence
EU member states
have voted to allow secret evidence to be used for the first time in one
of Europe’s highest courts.
All
but one of the EU’s 28 countries agreed to let the General Court of the EU to
consider evidence, including from intelligence agencies, in closed sessions.
Only
Britain abstained after it demanded more assurances that any sensitive evidence
it hands over would be safeguarded.
The
vote by the Council of Europe was carried on February 10, just four weeks after
the very same court ruled that Briton Abdulbasit Abdulrahim had wrongly
been designated a terrorist by both the EU and the UN on the basis of flawed UK
government intelligence.
Under
a regime of secret evidence, it could have been much harder for Abdulrahim to
clear his name.
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