Thursday, November 13, 2003

British court rejects Russian request to extradite Chechen.

But the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office said the court had attempted to find a political overtone in what was a purely criminal case. "Once again, terrorists are being split into two groups - good terrorists and bad ones," the office said in a statement.

Which is pretty cheeky because Russia has been using the excuse of The War on Terror to bomb the shit out of Chechnya in a sustained way for years, the US unable to complain what with them doing the same in Afghanistan and all...

Will have to check, but I think the UK courts tend to be a little less willing to accept the 'at risk of torture back home' argument when the person in question isn't white.

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