Editing Defence Regulation 18B (section)

{{Short description|Regulation issued by the British government during World War II}}
{{Redirect|18B|the isotope of boron (<sup>18</sup>B)|Boron-18}}
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'''Defence Regulation 18B''', often referred to as simply '''18B''', was one of the [[Defence Regulations]] used by the [[United Kingdom|British]] Government during and before [[World War II |the Second World War]]. The complete name for the rule was '''Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939'''.  It allowed the [[internment]] without trial of people suspected of being actively opposed to the ongoing war with [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] during [[World War II]] such as separatist elements (for example [[Irish republicanism|Irish republican]]s suspected of involvement in the [[S-Plan|Sabotage Campaign]]) or were otherwise suspected of ideological [[Nazism|Nazi]]-aligned sympathy (this included members of the [[British Union of Fascists]] and similar groups). The effect of 18B was to suspend the right of affected individuals to ''[[habeas corpus]]''.