"The overwhelming odds are that these guys were put inside for good reason -- whatever sob stories their human rights lawyers are peddling on their behalf." - Trevor Kavanagh, The Sun, 2007

"It is important that we do not jump to conclusions. Nobody has been charged with any offence, still less tried or convicted", Trevor Kavanagh, The Sun, 2012

Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper has long been hostile to the idea that people suspected of wrongdoing should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, that no-one should be locked up for extended periods of time without a fair trial and due process, and that even if someone is tried and convicted of a criminal offence, they are still entitled to basic human rights.

When, in 2005, 47 Labour MPs joined opposition ranks to throw out the Blair government's attempt to award itself the right to detain for 3 months, without charge or trial, anyone it claimed was a "terrorist", the Sun's political editor Trevor Kavanagh branded them "traitor MPs" who had "betrayed the British people".