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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
If they have commited crimes in other countries (with the exception of democracy, human rights activists and perscuted people) why should we keep them here, Britain should not be a haven for rouges
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You'd trust the verdicts of a legal system (based largely on Sharia) in a dodgy monarchy acknowledged by the US State Dept as a conducting systematic torture?
How about the cases of Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi who were rendered to Gaddafi's Libya along with their families?
Good thing the Chinese government haven't tried the Dali Lama in absentia...
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
And therin lies the rub: The sort of people who are likely to be terrorrists usually come from the countries that use sharier law and their terrorist ways automatically mean a death penalty under that same law or a long term of improsonment in unpleasant surroundings.
Now personally I would be quite happy to see these people sent back to their own countries to be judged by their own courts and subsequently doled out the penalties that they richly deserved even if that means that they forfiet their lives.
Now unfortunatly we're signed up to a convention that our courts have so twisted that it is a laughing stock with most people but allows the handwringers to sleep easy in their beds even while the rest of us are in fear of our lives.
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That you'd be happy to send people to face what we would regard as unfair and unjust trials before execution says volumes for your concept of human rights.
If Qatada was a real ("fear of our lives") threat to the UK, don't you think he'd have been prosecuted here already?