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.
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.
