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"en.20120419.18.4-436-000"2
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"Madam President, the Human Rights Convention does apply to the European Arrest Warrant and it is implicit in it, but it is explicit in the UK implementation of the European Arrest Warrant.
Wearing my other hat, which I used to be able to do in the British Parliament, helped secure an amendment to the 2003 Extradition Act, which requires the judge, before agreeing to extradition under the European Arrest Warrant, to decide whether someone’s Convention rights would be breached. I do not know why that has never succeeded in a UK court but I was there to make sure that this law applies and I will go on insisting that human rights apply to internal EU extradition.
By the way, the Strasbourg court did not prevent the extradition of Abu Hamza to the United States. We can disagree on whether that was the right decision but in fact they did say he would get a fair trial, even if he would be subject to harsh conditions after conviction. The difference there would be after conviction, not pre-trial."@en1
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