Criminal Law
Abu Qatada in court seeking bail
Abu Qatada, who is being held at Long Lartin high-security prison in Worcestershire, will apply to be released on bail as he fights deportation to Jordan. Qatada recently won an ECJ battle which resulted in the prohibition of his expulsion to a country where he was likely to face torture.
Lawyers for the home secretary, Theresa May, are expected to oppose bail while British diplomats continue to seek assurances from the Jordanian authorities that evidence gained through torture would not be used against him.Such evidence is the main reason Qatada, once described by a Spanish judge as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", won an appeal to the European court of human rights in January. The judges ruled that sending Qatada back to face terror charges without such assurances would deny him his right to a fair trial and be a "flagrant denial of justice".
May has vowed Qatada, held for six and a half years, will be kept behind bars while she considers all legal options to send him back. The Home Office has said he "poses a real risk to national security".
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03/03/2012 07:48:01
, "I would rather be exesopd to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." We did not carry out proper justice for Osama Bin Laden and now look at the results. We have darkened the world by putting out the flame of Liberty and Justice as Americans cheered and danced on a day that showed us for who we really are, a country that no longer believes in the rule of law or proper due process. Your conclusions in these posts always bleed a lack of deep knowledge of Human Nature and results in a position of working within the current paradigm approach. Human Nature is an oldparadigm and history lessons teach us that the Governments ALWAYS become tyrannical. No splitting hairs just good ole fashioned justice. Due process, innocent until proven guilty, respect, and the never ending pursuit of truth. EASY