Strathclyde Police held more than 30 people outside the base and Ministry of Defence Police found nine activists inside.Police said that those arrested outside the gate were being charged with public order offences, chiefly for breach of the peace, by stopping workers from driving into the base.. A further six people were arrested at 6am after they had cut through the chain-link fence.The peaceful protest started at the gates from 7am. If Blair wants to rid the world of WMD he need only travel to the Clyde." The day of protest, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, attracted protesters from Australia, America, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Ireland.It began with the arrest of three protesters swimming near a floating security boom in the water at the base shortly after midnight. The hypocrisy is breathtaking."Mr Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, added from the back of a police van: "I'm proud to do anything to resist weapons of mass destruction. Mr Harvie was detained with his mother, Rose, who was also demonstrating, a party spokes-man said.As he was led away, Mr Ballard said: "It is shameful that British illegal weapons are still trained on targets around the world.

Those arrested included the two Green Party MSPs, Mark Ballard and Patrick Harvie, and the Scottish Socialist Party MSPs Rosie Kane and Frances Curran.Mr Ballard, MSP for Lothians, had attached himself to a gate by a bicycle lock around his neck and police used hydraulic bolt cutters to cut him free. Four members of the Scottish Parliament were among dozens of protesters arrested yesterday during an anti-nuclear demonstration at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, home to the Trident nuclear submarines. More than 40 people were detained after 350 people tried to block the three entrances. does not, of course, provide protection to real human rights."THE DEFENCE: Whether it is the privacy rights of ordinary people or the rights of the homeless or mentally ill, thousands of British citizens now enjoy a better quality of life than they did four years ago.. While it is true that in the first 18 months of the legislation coming into force there were around 431 cases, this must be taken in the context of around 200,000 Crown Court and civil cases heard every year.CRIMETHE CHARGE: "All too often [the Act] seems to give criminals more rights than the victims of crime."THE DEFENCE: The courts - primarily due to the Human Rights Act - are now much more receptive to the rights of victims. In the 18 months after the Act came into force, it was considered in 431 cases and affected the outcome in 318 of those.THE DEFENCE: There are no reliable figures for all cases involving European human rights law before the HRA came into force and Mr Davis does not identify the basis for his research.

Judges now have a duty to consider statements made by victims of crime when considering punishments for criminals.ASYLUMTHE CHARGE: "The Human Rights Act puts limitations on the ability to deport failed asylum-seekers."THE DEFENCE: Legislation controlling the treatment of asylum-seekers and refugees dates to the 1951 Geneva Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights. What Mr Davis does not state is that many of the successful human rights cases have led to the improvement in living conditions of thousands of vulnerable people in Britain.RISE IN CASE-LOADTHE CHARGE: Since the European Convention on Human Rights was enshrined in British law, there has been a twentyfold rise in the number of cases in the areas it deals with, with "a serious effect on the operation of the law". Between 1975 and 1996, Mr Davis says, the convention was considered in 316 cases in the UK and affected the outcome, reasoning or procedure in 16 of those. awareness of human rights is ebbing, within public authorities and the public."COMPENSATION CULTURETHE CHARGE: The Human Rights Act has spawned too many spurious rights.