Pete Weatherby QC on Abu Hamza extradition (BBC News)
11/04/2012
GCN's Pete Weatherby QC appeared on BBC TV's Breakfast News programme yesterday morning (10.4.12) to discuss the possible extradition of radical preacher Abu Hamza and others including Babar Ahmad in anticipation of yesterday's judgment from the European Court of Human Rights.
Pete Weatherby QC also appeared on BBC Radio 5 live yesterday morning in a live debate about the same issues, alongside fellow lawyer Lord Carlile, on BBC Radio Wales, and on BBC News 24 at 9:05pm.
Pete expressed a number of concerns about the impending ECHR decision from a human rights perspective which included the concerns about the conditions these individuals may face in the US both in the "supermax" prisons facilities (which can involve long term solitary confinement) and also the possiblity of "inhuman and degrading" life-without-parole sentences. He also commented on claims that there is in-sufficient evidence against some of the other individuals including Babar Ahmad for them to face trial in the UK yet still face extradition to the US to be tried.
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(1) BBC Radio 5 Live at 9.00am on 10th April 2012.
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Fast forward through the programme to 0:07:00 reach the start of Pete Weatherby QC's contribution.
(2) BBC Radio Wales on 10th April 2012.
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(3) BBC Breakfast News at 7.10am on 10th April 2012.
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(4) BBC News 24 at 9.05pm on 10th April 2012.
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> 10/4/12 - BBC Breakfast makes Salford Move (BBC News) - Manchester-based Human Rights lawyer Pete Weatherby QC was a studio guest on the first BBC Breakfast programme to be broadcast from the BBC's new Salford studios.
