Proceeding contribution from David Davis (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 December 2009. It occurred during Urgent question on Gary McKinnon (Extradition).

Gary McKinnon (Extradition)

I am not going to be rude to the Home Secretary because he is in a very difficult position—one forecast by Conservative Members in 2003 and then in 2006, when the right hon. Gentleman's Government put this foolish law in place. Much of what he said rested on legal advice. He will have seen from today's newspapers the comment from Geoffrey Robertson, the senior—very senior—human rights lawyer who said:""To send a British citizen to the US, without any right to bail, to face 10 years in prison for a crime for which he would be unlikely to receive any custodial sentence if tried here amounts to 'cruel and unusual punishment' in breach of our 1689 Bill of ""Rights. The home secretary should not hide behind the weasel words of the European Convention when he should be following the law laid down by our own historic bill of rights."" Will the right hon. Gentleman please answer that?

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 501 c985-6
Session: 2009-10
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Subjects: Extradition USA Appeals Human rights Powers Ministers Treaties Asperger's syndrome McKinnon, Gary
Legislation: Extradition Act 2003
Link: View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk

Gary McKinnon (Extradition)

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