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Saturday, April 28, 2012

European Court Okays English Extradition

"Britain given OK to extradite terror suspects to US; European court says human rights would be secure" by Alan Cowell and John F. Burns  |  New York Times, April 11, 2012
LONDON - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Britain could legally extradite five suspects wanted in the United States on terrorism charges, including Abu Hamza al-Masri, an inflammatory Egyptian-born cleric incarcerated in Britain but accused in a range of anti-American plots that date back 14 years.

In a major precedent that appeared to greatly ease extradition of terrorism suspects - an issue that has surfaced repeatedly since Britain and the United States agreed to a new, more flexible extradition treaty after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks - the court ruled that the human rights of the defendants would not be violated by their prospective captivity in a maximum-security US prison. Some legal specialists called the ruling stunning, considering the court’s history of wariness toward the human rights standards of US justice....

The European ruling surprised many in Britain, breaking as it did with a pattern of the court voiding extradition proceedings in Britain and other European countries on human rights grounds.

Prime Minister David Cameron  and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France have both demanded that the court end its interference in issues that they have said affect their nations’ national security, and they have threatened to take steps to curb the court’s powers if it persists - a possible reason, some legal specialists said, for the court ruling as it did in the latest British case....  

Translation: the court caved to politics.

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