Sunday, May 28, 2006

UK parliament rights panel assails Blair stance on deportation to torture states / Jurist Newsburst, 26 May 2006

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/05/uk-parliament-rights-panel-assails.php
Bernard Hibbitts
"The UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights [official website] took the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair to task Friday for urging [JURIST report] the European Court of Human Rights [official website] to revisit its absolute prohibition against deporting people to states where they may be tortured and for entering into diplomatic agreements with those states purporting to guarantee good treatment for detainees. The Committee made its points in the context of a new report [text] on UK compliance with the terms of the UN Convention Against Torture [text]."