Abu Qatada

[sir.prize]

At the beginning of August the Special Immigration Appeals Commission ruled that Abu Qatada should remain in detention until its latest hearing in October; the result of which will be announced in November.

Unbelievably, the SIAC said that Quatada could appeal AGAIN from the SIAC ruling, but any appeal would have to be on points of law.

Apparently the Home Office is still awaiting assurances from Jordan that he will get a a fair trial. Once Jordan confirms that his rights will not be breached, we will removed "as quickly as possible".

Wonder why it's taking so long to get those assurances? Has Theresa May forgotten?

[Gromit]

Possibly the Jordanians are reluctant to give any such assurances. And the Government are reluctant to face the flack if he is tortured or worse when he is returned to Jordan.

[pdq1]

Our politicians always fail to answer why England is always chosen as a place of refuge by terrorists. Until they can get that into their thick skulls it will always remain so.

[youngmafbog]

What flak for 'torture or worse' ?

Apart from a few hand wringing liberals (and who cares about them) it woudl probably actually increase the poll of the party that did it.

Probably more afraid of upsetting a few liberal Europeans. Whilst we are stuck with anything European this will keep happening.

[sandyRoe]

How do the European liberals carry more weight than the home-grown hand wringing variety?

[emmie]

Ms May hasn't forgotten, perhaps they are weighing up the options. I suspect that if something happened to him in Jordan there would be an uprising from other places, he is undoubtedly a hero to some.