[Benjamin]

European judges will rule later whether six terror suspects, including radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, can be extradited from the UK to the US.

They include alleged terror fundraiser Babar Ahmad and two men accused of a role in two 1998 US embassy bombings.

The European Court of Human Rights has considered whether human rights would be breached if the men receive lengthy sentences in certain prison conditions.

The suspects say they could be held in solitary confinement.

They argue that they might be held in a high-security prison in Colorado, known as a "supermax" prison and claim that if convicted there is very little or no prospect of ever being released.

The six suspects, who have been indicted on various charges of alleged terrorism in the US, say conditions of detention at a so-called "supermax" prison would amount to ill-treatment under article three of the human rights code.

The European code states: "No-one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".

Potentially significant

European judges halted extradition proceedings concerning the suspects in July 2010, arguing that the court needed more time to consider complaints that transferring the men risked breaching their rights by exposing them to possible life imprisonment without parole and solitary confinement.

Earlier this year, the European Court ruled that Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada could not be sent for trial from the UK to his homeland because evidence obtained by torture might be used against him.

BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw says the ruling involving the six suspects is "potentially more significant as it concerns the government's ability to extradite suspects to one of Britain's closest allies, the US".

Egyptian-born Abu Hamza, who was granted British citizenship in 1986, rose to prominence when he was a preacher at Finsbury Park mosque, in north London.

He is serving a seven-year sentence in the UK for inciting racial hatred.

'Terrorist facilitator'

He is wanted in the US on 11 charges related to claims that he took 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998, promoted violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2001 and conspired to set up a jihad training camp in the state of Oregon.

US authorities have described him as a "terrorist facilitator with a global reach".

Babar Ahmad, 37, has been held without trial in a UK prison for nearly eight years.

And he has been refused bail since his August 2004 arrest on a US extradition warrant.

The British Muslim denies terror-related charges.

Four other men - Haroon Rashid Aswat, Seyla Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled Al-Fawwaz - will also be subject to the ruling made by European judges.

Mr Al-Fawwaz and Mr Bary are accused of being involved in US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

Mr Aswat is accused of a being part of an alleged terror camp in Oregon and Mr Ahsan is accused by a US court of running an extremist website and funding the Taliban.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17657814

[arista]

Yes Europe has ruled
he can now go to America.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-appeal.html

[Marc]

human rights would be breached if the men receive lengthy sentences in certain prison conditions

Oh yeah, cos they deserve all the respect they can get

[arista]

He Preached Death to Our Troops
while in England.

So the Evil Punk has lost All Rights.

[ILoveTRW]

he can sling his hook

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Marc

Oh yeah, cos they deserve all the respect they can get

I know, it is ridiculous.

[Livia]

It annoys me that we hang on the every word of the Court of Human Rights, when most other countries in Europe take no notice whatsoever.

[waterhog]

livia - thats right - it makes me so mad when you see what this man stands for and how much he hates this country - meanwhile he is claiming everything under the sun in benefits which the normal citzen can not get -


please god this dose habben and he goes and takes all his followers with him - as we clearly dont want any of them in this country - especially if they hate it this much.

[joeysteele]

Yes,it's good news,get the nasty person out, let someone else deal with him and pay for his upkeep.

[MTVN]

Can you check to see if there's already a thread on a topic before making a new one please WATERHOG, merged this with the other Abu Hamza one

[MTVN]

Looks like Ben made a bit of an out of character poll now

[King Gizzard]

Who voted no? *facepalm*

[InOne]

I was wondering why the poll looked so... special lol Now I get that it was merged

[Benjamin]

Who merged this with a ridiculous poll?