Hans Rustad Den britiske regjeringen håper å bevege den europeiske menneskerettsdomstolen til å omgjøre en kjennelse som hindrer utvisning av terrormistenkte. Saken kan få betydning for Norge.
A spokesman for the court in Strasbourg said Britain had been given until Oct 17 to lodge submissions in a case brought by Mohammad Ramzy, 22, who was acquitted of involvement in a terrorist cell that was suspected of recruiting suicide bombers.
Ramzy is seeking asylum in the Netherlands, claiming he would face political persecution if he were sent back to Algeria. He says this would be a breach by the Netherlands of Article 3, the provision in the Human Rights Convention banning torture.
The Strasbourg court decided in 1996 that if a person faced torture or inhuman treatment abroad, the risk to the individual if expelled could not be balanced against the risk to which a country might be exposed if he were allowed to stay.
It is this ruling, in a case brought against Britain by Karamjit Singh Chahal, a Sikh nationalist, that Britain is seeking to overturn.
Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, said last week that «the right to be protected from the death and destruction caused by indiscriminate terrorism is at least as important as the right of the terrorist to be protected from torture and ill-treatment».