Skip navigation
Sidebar -

Advanced search options →
↑ ↓
CEMB → Forum → News and Events → UK news and issues → Human rights court rejects extradition appeal by UK Islamist

Welcome

Welcome to CEMB forum.
Please login or register. Did you miss your activation email?

Donations

Help keep the Forum going!
Click on Kitty to donate:

Kitty is lost

Recent Posts

اضواء على الطريق ....... ...
by akay
Yesterday at 01:38 PM
New Britain
February 07, 2025, 03:10 PM
German nationalist party ...
February 07, 2025, 01:11 PM
Do humans have needed kno...
February 06, 2025, 03:13 PM
Lights on the way
by akay
February 05, 2025, 10:04 PM
Gaza assault
February 05, 2025, 10:04 AM
AMRIKAAA Land of Free .....
February 03, 2025, 09:25 AM
The origins of Judaism
by zeca
February 02, 2025, 04:29 PM
Qur'anic studies today
by zeca
February 01, 2025, 11:48 PM
Random Islamic History Po...
by zeca
February 01, 2025, 07:29 PM
News From Syria
by zeca
December 28, 2024, 12:29 AM
Mo Salah
December 26, 2024, 05:30 AM

Theme Changer

 Topic: Human rights court rejects extradition appeal by UK Islamist

 (Read 1723 times)
  • 1« Previous thread | Next thread »
  • Human rights court rejects extradition appeal by UK Islamist
     OP - September 24, 2012, 07:59 PM
    Quote
    PARIS (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights on Monday gave final approval for one of Britain's most radical Islamist clerics, Abu Hamza al-Masri, to be extradited to the United States with four others to be tried for terrorism.

    The Egyptian-born cleric filed an appeal, along with the four other suspects, after the court in Strasbourg authorized Britain to transfer him to the United States on charges that he supported al Qaeda and aided a fatal kidnapping in Yemen.

    Al-Masri, 54, could face a sentence of over 100 years in an ultra-secure "Supermax" prison, and had argued that such treatment would contravene Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits inhumane and degrading treatment.

    "Today the Grand Chamber decided to reject the request. This means that the Chamber judgment of April 10, 2012, is now final," the ECHR said in a statement.

    The decision also concerned appeals lodged by four other defendants, Babar Ahmad, Syed Tahla Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled Al-Fawwaz, all of whom have been detained in Britain pending extradition to the United States.

    A spokesperson for Britain's Home Office welcomed the outcome, adding that Britain would work to ensure that all five individuals were handed over to U.S. authorities as quickly as possible.

    Al-Masri is one of the most radical Islamists in Britain, where he was once a preacher at a North London mosque but was later convicted of inciting murder and racial hatred. He is being held in a British jail.

    He was indicted in 2004 by a federal grand jury in New York, accused of providing material support to al Qaeda and of involvement in a hostage taking in Yemen in 1998 in which four hostages were killed. (Reporting by Vicky Buffery; Editing by Kevin Liffey    )


    http://news.yahoo.com/human-rights-court-rejects-extradition-appeal-uk-islamist-185154021.html
  • 1« Previous thread | Next thread »