Fundstück 31.01.2012 18:57 +Feedback
The Decline of Human Rights
The latest Exhibit A in ECHR over-reach is its Jan. 16 ruling in the case of Abu Qatada, a radical Islamist cleric born in Bethlehem, based in London, and wanted on terrorism-related charges in Algeria, Jordan, the U.S., Belgium, Spain, France and Italy. The U.K. government (which has never charged Mr. Qatada with a crime though it has repeatedly detained him), wants to deport him to Jordan and has negotiated a “no torture” agreement with Amman. Britain’s Law Lords blessed the deportation in 2009. But not the Strasbourg court. It stopped the deportation on the grounds that a prospective conviction of Mr. Qatada in a Jordanian court might be based on evidence extracted by torture from a co-defendant. A deportation, the court ruled, would “legitimize the torture of witnesses and suspects.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577192762570509048.html
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