by Liz Fekete How is it that Muslim citizens accused of support for terrorism are not charged but extradited, while far-right supporters of terrorism roam free? On 24 September, as part of a forty-strong delegation of observers, I was in Morocco at the appeal hearing in the Rabat-Salé court of the Belgian-Moroccan dual national, Ali Aarrass. Aarrass’ conviction...
Learn Moreby Frances Webber Is the European Court selling Ahmad out, and the kettled demonstrators before him, for the sake of making peace with a British government determined to get the court off its back? The Strasbourg court’s judgment in Ahmad and others,[1] ruling that the punitive regime in which four of them are likely to spend many years in the supermax prison ADX...
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Mark Spragg, consultant solicitor, Keystone Law The Home Secretary has a chance to stand up to the US in the Gary McKinnon case. Will she be brave? Mark Spragg The US President expressed himself “chuffed to bits” to see our Prime Minister earlier this month. The pair spoke about the ’special relationship’, which has now apparently become an...
Learn MoreBritain has had extradition arrangements with other countries for centuries and has quite successfully extradited to and from the British Isles without any great deal of fuss. Suddenly now there is huge outcry and concern over extradition and we have to ask what really has changed. Whilst there is an obvious need for international Justice there is also an obvious need...
Learn MoreChris Tappin is going to spend years in a Texan jail before he is brought to trial. This isn’t justice. Shami Chakrabarti ‘Sentencing is too soft. Legal aid is a gravy train. Human rights are inappropriate for foreigners suspected of grave crimes.” It’s a common enough refrain, especially when fears of existential threat and economic disaster stalk the...
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