Wednesday, March 27, 2013

#022 Which country is cruel and which country is not? Extradition or no extradition?

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.