[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by ceedee

"Not good" doesn't even begin to describe Jordanian 'justice'...

"The Court found that torture was widespread in Jordan, as was the use of torture evidence by the Jordanian courts.

The Court also found that, in relation to each of the two terrorist conspiracies charged against Mr Othman, the evidence of his involvement had been obtained by torturing one of his co-defendants.

"When those two co-defendants stood trial, the Jordanian courts had not taken any action in relation to their complaints of torture."

Strasbourg said that it was highly probable that the "decisive" evidence against the preacher had come from abusing these defendants.

"In the absence of any assurance by Jordan that the torture evidence would not be used against Mr Othman, the Court therefore concluded that his deportation to Jordan to be retried would give rise to a flagrant denial of justice in violation of [his right to a fair trial]".
(Source: BBC News)

Makes you wonder why the UK made no attempt to extradite Qatada to a state that doesn't torture, doesn't it?

But he come is not a human rights, democracy activist or a refugee, so he has no reason not to be deported!