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"We come from completely opposite views on this and I do not think we are ever going to agree, but I have come across a curious anomaly which I would like your view on. The European Convention on Human Rights has been used by people like Abu Hamza and terrorist suspects to prevent their extradition to countries like America on the basis that their human rights might be abused.
But I have sat in courts dealing with European Arrest Warrant cases, and one in particular where the European Convention was invoked because it was almost certain that, in being extradited to Greece, suspects would be held in the Korydallos Prison, where it was 100% guaranteed that their human rights were going to be violated. But the government prosecutor put the point that since Greece was a signatory of the Convention on Human Rights it could not be deemed to be in breach of it. The appeal court agreed and the suspects were extradited.
Is it not odd that foreign countries are covered by the European Convention on Human Rights but it does not seem to apply in European countries and does not offer the protection that we would give to people being extradited to the USA?"@en1
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