Human rights court blocks extradition of UK-based terror suspect to US

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/apr/16/human-rights-extradition-terror-suspect
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An aide of the extremist preacher Abu Hamza has had his extradition to the United States for alleged terrorism offences blocked by the European court of human rights.

Removing Haroon Aswat, a UK-based terror suspect whose nationality is unknown, to an American "supermax" high security prison would constitute "inhuman or degrading treatment", the Strasbourg court ruled.

The decision barring his extradition from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, where he is being held, to the US was made on account of his severe mental illness.

Aswat, who has paranoid schizophrenia, has been indicted in the US as a co-conspirator in a plan to establish a jihad training camp in Oregon, along with Hamza.

He was arrested in 2005 in Britain following a extradition request from US authorities. His lawyers have resisted his removal since then in a series of appeals.

In its judgment, the court said that it had given "full consideration to the submissions of the US department of justice … and observed, in particular, that it could not be determined with certainty in which detention facility or facilities Mr Aswat would be placed if extradited to the USA, either before or after trial.

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Good - enough with the torture of the mentally ill

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