Is there anything we 'are' allowed to do?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....isoner-transfers.html

If it is not the ECHR who tell us what we can and cannot do, our own High Court is putting on the pressure now.

We can no longer hand our prisoners caught in Afghanistan over to the Afghan authorities in case they might torture them.

/// Lawyers for Serdar Mohammed lodged papers with the High Court for the judicial review on whether the risk of torture remained. ///

What I would liker to know is, who is paying Serdar Mohammed's lawyers?

One just couldn't make this up.

[THECORBYLOON]

If you don't like the ECHR and the High Court making decisions, who is meant to do that in England and Wales?

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

It's not a matter of liking or not liking the ECHR or the High Court for making such decisions, it is the need for them to come to such such decisions that I question.

[sandyRoe]

When we eventually cut and run from Afghanistan we may need to bring these prisoners back to the UK where they can claim political asylum.

[THECORBYLOON]

"It's not a matter of liking or not liking the ECHR or the High Court for making such decisions, it is the need for them to come to such such decisions that I question" why then are you asking "Is there anything we 'are' allowed to do?"

Could it be that you do not agree with the decision of the High Court? The ban is temporary until a final decisio is reached, if the final decision is to hand over the prisoners to the Afghan authorities, no doubt you will be singing the praises of the judges.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

/// if the final decision is to hand over the prisoners to the Afghan authorities, no doubt you will be singing the praises of the judges. ///

If they got a fair trial, and if found guilty they faced the full force of their own country's sentencing measures, then yes I would certainly be singing the praises of the judges but until then I won't be practising my singing voice.

Perhaps instead of just criticising me it would be interesting to know your opinion on the matter.

Do you agree or disagree that the prisoners should be handed over to their own judiciary, so as to be taken care of?

[THECORBYLOON]

There is a question mark over their being tortured in the same way that the UK Government has agreed to extradite suspects to the US only on condition that they do not face the death penalty.