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COE-UK: Council of Europe: Press release: Court confirms ruling to halt UK plans for US extradition of terrorist suspect

10 September 2013

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"Judges have rejected a request from the United Kingdom that they re-examine a decision to stop the government’s plan to extradite a terrorism suspect to the United States.
Last April, the European Court of Human rights held, unanimously, in the case Aswat v. the United Kingdom (application no. 17299/12), that there would be a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights if Haroon Aswat was extradited to the United States. The court further decided to continue to indicate to the government of the United Kingdom under Rule 39 of its Rules of Court (interim measures) not to extradite Aswat until the judgment became final or until further order."

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