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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.

Last year, the ECHR ruled that five men including Hamza would not face ill treatment if they were extradited to the US.

Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Seyla Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled Al-Fawwaz were all removed from the country.

Hamza, who was serving a seven-year sentence in Britain for soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred when he was extradited, has denied 11 counts of criminal conduct related to the taking of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998 and advocating violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2001.

He is also accused of conspiring to establish the Oregon-based jihad training camp between June 2000 and December 2001. Aswat was indicted as Hamza's 'co-conspirator' but will now stay in Britain

dales wrote:UK out of EU amd US out of UN!

Mustafa Abdi, a Somali national who was jailed for eight years in 1998 for rape and indecency with a child, was unlawfully detained for two-and-a-half years as he awaited deportation, the European Courts of Human Rights has said.

The Strasbourg court said this was a breach of Article 5 - his right to liberty and security - and has ordered the UK Government to pay 1,500 euros (£1,277) in damages and 7,000 euros (£5,960) for his lawyers' costs and expenses.

Even the latest case is not entirely unique. In January this year, the court awarded damages to a 58-year-old Brit who raped a young teenager after forcing her to drink alcohol. The ECHR ruled that a 13month delay between the end of his minimum term and first parole hearing was a breach of the convict's right to a speedy hearing.

Gob wrote:

Mustafa Abdi, a Somali national who was jailed for eight years in 1998 for rape and indecency with a child, was unlawfully detained for two-and-a-half years as he awaited deportation, the European Courts of Human Rights has said.

The Strasbourg court said this was a breach of Article 5 - his right to liberty and security - and has ordered the UK Government to pay 1,500 euros (£1,277) in damages and 7,000 euros (£5,960) for his lawyers' costs and expenses.

Even the latest case is not entirely unique. In January this year, the court awarded damages to a 58-year-old Brit who raped a young teenager after forcing her to drink alcohol. The ECHR ruled that a 13month delay between the end of his minimum term and first parole hearing was a breach of the convict's right to a speedy hearing.

dales wrote:The UN is trying very hard to rob the US of its soverignity(sp).

The UN is trying very hard to rob the US of its soverignity(sp).

Gob wrote:You're a good man dales.

Lord Jim wrote:(I'm the guy who has been flying The Union Jack along with The Stars and Stripes out in front of his house for more than a dozen years...in a neighborhood with a lot of Irish.... ).

The Union Flag, or Union Jack, is the national flag of the United Kingdom.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Symbo ... nJack.aspx

dales wrote:UK out of EU amd US out of UN!