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dipsydoodle

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Tue Apr 16, 2013, 05:58 AM Apr 2013

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

Source: Guardian

Extraditing a UK-based terror suspect to an American "supermax" high security prison would constitute "inhuman or degrading treatment", the European court of human rights (ECHR) has ruled.

The Strasbourg court barred the removal of Haroon Aswat, whose nationality is unknown, from Broadmoor psychiatric hospital to the US on account of his severe mental illness.

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

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

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/apr/16/human-rights-extradition-terror-suspect

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Human rights court blocks extradition of UK-based terror suspect to US (Original Post) dipsydoodle Apr 2013 OP
K&R for Human Rights Court. idwiyo Apr 2013 #1
Amen. nt duhneece Apr 2013 #2
Interesting... midnight Apr 2013 #3
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