Is country relevant for cruelty?
Euro-American countries and their courts seem to continuously
entertain a view that courts and laws in non-Euro-American countries
are cruel and no reliance can be placed on justice delivered through
them.
Reasonableness of laws, sternness of punishments, adoption of
procedures like audi alterim partem, corruption in police and judicial
systems prevailing in different countries may determine and influence
the outcomes both in civil and criminal cases. We cannot make
generalisations and arrive at conclusions immediately after hearing the
name of a country.
Countries in general, and Euro-American-countries in particular
have to shed their colonial prejudices that their own judicial systems
are perfect and the practices and systems in other countries are just
shit.
We shall take up one or two cases:
Case: Albu Qatada. Euro-American-country: U.K. other-world: Jordan.
issue: Many English consider as a turbulent priest, menace and peril.
It appears that British Courts have not allowed his extradition to
Jordan, where the British Courts believe that he will not receive
justice and that he will be convicted using evidence obtained by
torturing co-accused.
