The system allows Britain's Home Office to ask a court to curtail suspects' movements, ban them from foreign travel, restrict their Internet access and forbid them from associating with certain people. At least 45 people have been subjected to such orders, according to the latest count. Twelve people, including nine Britons, remain under the regime.
The two suspects whose case was decided Monday cannot be named for legally reasons. One of the two, a Libyan-British dual national identified only as A.F., was subjected to a control order because of alleged links with Islamic terrorists. He had to wear an electronic tag, stay in his house for 18 hours a day, and could not work without express permission from the government.
The other man, identified only as A.E., has been described in previous rulings as an imam to the Iraqi community in an unnamed town in northern England. Britain's security service said there was evidence he had taken part in terrorist activities. Both had their control orders lifted in September after Britain's highest court ruled that the government could no longer withhold evidence from the pair. Britain's government said it lifted the restrictions rather than expose the sources of its intelligence.