Extradition

Score one for the judicial system, two Libyan terror suspects have won an appeal against being deported to Libya. Good, I know that we have a piece of paper that says that the Libyans promise to not subject anybody deported from the UK to the same tortures as anybody detained without our assistance, but does anybody really believe that once they are off the plane they won’t end up on the wrong end of a cattle prod like everybody else? Despite being terrorism suspects they are still only suspects, we do not know if they have actually done anything. No doubt the Libyans will get them to confess to something after a little persuasion but that still does not mean that they actually did anything. Hopefully the judicial system will also get around to doing something about the abomination of an extradition treaty that we have with the USA, even if it wasn’t in time for the NatWest three.