Ten terrorist suspects have been subjected to control orders under a new anti-terror law, which was reached Friday night after a 30-hour wrangling between the two houses of Britain's parliament.
British Home Secretary Charles Clark signed the control orders on Saturday to put the 10 suspects under strong restrictions including a 7:00 pm to 7:00 am curfew, wearing an electronic tagging device, no access to mobile phones or the internet under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
One of the 10, Abu Qatada, was also banned from preaching because, it is alleged, his sermons have been used by people training suicide bombers.
Of the 10 suspects, one was freed by a Special Immigration Appeals Commission on Thursday and another, who has been remanded on bail for health reasons and confined to his home since last April, had his conditions relaxed.
The other eight men were released on bail from high-security custody on Friday afternoon before the end of the political wrangling over the new controversial anti-terror bill, which was designed to replace the current Anti-Terrorism, Crime and SecurityAct 2001, due to expire on 14 March.
Members of parliament had sat up through Thursday night as the House of Lords repeatedly voted for a so-called "sunset clause" which would see the laws expire in a year.
British law lords finally approved the government's controversial anti-terrorism bill late Friday after Prime Minister Tony Blair made further concessions, ending the longest ever recorded sitting of both houses of the parliament.
Xinhua