Terror in the UK Redux
Myself and my co-authors are currently revising our earlier article about the UK and its extraterritorial obligations to the European Convention on Human Rights before this sucker gets to the printer. We are specifically looking at the policy of “rendition” (ie outsourcing torture) that the US and UK have been accused of in the “war on terror.” This is an issue since the UK has recently announced that it will pursue a policy of deporting individuals to other (Middle Eastern) nations who are deemed “dangerous.”
Unlike the US, there is a relatively rich line of cases applicable to the UK vis-a-vis the ECHR that I am looking at, including the Soering case (extradition of a West German by the UK to Virginia’s death row), the Al-Adsani case (UK national tortured in Kuwait), and others in which individuals travelled to or were deported or extradited to foreign nations to experience torture, religious persecution, or other forms of maltreatment.
More later.
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