Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Euro judges rule that terror suspect wanted in America CAN'T be deported from Britain...Bad for his 'Mental Health'.

Haroon Aswat (right), pictured with radical cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, has been told today he will not be extradited from Britain to the United States

Euro judges rule that terror suspect wanted in America CAN'T be deported from Britain...Bad for his 'Mental Health'.(DM).Terror suspect and Broadmoor patient Haroon Aswat, the trusted lieutenant of radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, has won his legal battle to avoid being kicked out of Britain.

The extremist's proposed extradition to the United States would breach his human rights, the European Court of Human Rights ruled today.

Aswat, who claims to be a schizophrenic, is wanted by the U.S. authorities for plotting to set up a jihadi training camp in Bly, Oregon.

He had claimed that the jail term he might face in America – up to 50 years without parole – breached Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which bans ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’.

Today a Strasbourg court said they agreed with him because he has mental health problems.

Aswat had faced being sent to the Colorado Supermax prison, which is surrounded by desert, and known as the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies'.

It is home to 400 of America's most dangerous convicts, where they live in a cramped cell measuring 12ft by 7ft.

Hamza and four other terror suspects were extradited last year after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected their appeal against the move - but Aswat's case was adjourned to allow judges more time to consider his mental health.

Aswat, who was born in 1974 and is being treated for schizophrenia, claims that if he is extradited and convicted in the US he would be at risk of ill-treatment inside the so-called supermax prison ADX Florence, in Colorado.

The Strasbourg court published its decision today after it adjourned the case last April to obtain further submissions on the relevance of his schizophrenia to his claim.Hmmmm.....Remember how the Israelis would go after Nazi war criminals, perhaps time to revive this practice.Read the full story here.

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