Human Rights Court Halts Terror Suspect’s U.S. Extradition
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The European Court of Human Rights told the U.K. not to extradite a terror suspect to the U.S. because detention in a “super-max” prison might exacerbate the man’s paranoid schizophrenia.
Extradition would constitute ill treatment because of Haroon Aswat’s medical condition, the ECHR in Strasbourg, France, said in a ruling today. Aswat, who is currently detained in a U.K. high-security psychiatric hospital, has been indicted in the U.S. on charges he conspired to establish a jihad training camp in the country.