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Thread #144343   Message #3338326
Posted By: GUEST,Eliza
14-Apr-12 - 03:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: ECHR approves deportation of Abu Hamza.
Subject: RE: BS: ECHR approves deportation of Abu Hamza.
Actually Don you've hit on a moot point, which is 'what exactly constitutes torture or inhumane treatment?' Here in UK we have our own ideas of this, as does Europe. No doubt other countries think it's OK for example to isolate a felon for years at a time in solitary confinement or to prevent his view out of a window.(However, I seem to remember Charlie Bronson being treated in solitary like an animal in a concrete cage for years, here in a UK prison!) If the USA can't reassure us that Hamza would receive a fair trial and humane conditions, we can't in all conscience send him over there.