12/05/2006

Litvinenko - UK extradition rules with Russia discriminate against UK

Once again, the dreadful extradition laws introduced by this government which have been shown to be so biased towards America, have been shown to be an absolute ass.

The excellent John Wilkes Libertarian Blog highlights that although we may want to extradite from Russia someone who may be responsible for Litvinenko's death, the Russians have already said a firm no. However, Russia is free to extradite UK citizens easily.

Read HERE to learn more.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The point being that they will prosecute anyone they think is responsible themselves. This would have also been a defence to extradiction for the Natwest 3 or anyone else resisting extradiction under the recent legislation. It is certainly bad legislation, but this criticism does not really hold water.

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