He doesn’t even know the charges against him: so much for justice being seen to be done
Topic: Abu Qatada
David Mellor, former Home Office Minister, says we are under no legal obligation to obey the Strasbourg Court’s ruling on Abu Qatada. Is he right? No one’s denied it
Posted on Wednesday, 15 February 2012
If he is, let’s have this poisonous man on the next plane back to Amman
There are, we are told, 800 million people for whom the ECHR is the last recourse against tyrannical governments. But does this argument really hold water?
Tyrannical governments, unlike our own, just ignore the ECHR when they don’t like its judgments