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The US acceded to British demands that it wouldn’t seek the death penalty for these bloodthirsty Islamic State jihadis, but even that isn’t enough. Their “data protection rights” must be safeguarded, you see. Has the British government ever shown this kind of persistent solicitude for the victims of jihad terror, or for opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression? Of course not. To have done so would have been “Islamophobic.”
An update on this story. “Furious families of the ISIS ‘Beatles’ victims slam bungling UK legal system for letting them ‘escape justice’ in the US as it’s revealed Britain STILL can’t send crucial evidence to America because it violates their ‘data protection rights,'” by Dan Sales, James Fielding, and Jake Hurfurt, Daily Mail, August 20, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Furious families of the ‘ISIS Beatles’ victims have slammed the UK legal system for ‘letting them down’ as it emerged Britain STILL can’t send crucial evidence to US because it violates their ‘data protection rights’
Bethany Haines, whose father David was beheaded by the ISIS ‘Beatles’ in Syria in 2013, savaged the way the case had been handled in the past two years.
It came as it was feared the two surviving ‘ISIS Beatles’ could never face justice in the US – because the Supreme Court ruled that handing over vital evidence breached their ‘data protection rights’ in legal action brought by one of their mothers.
Prosecutors in the US initially planned to seek Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh’s execution – and the British government want the pair prosecuted in the US, where it is thought there is a more realistic chance of prosecution than at home.
But the Supreme Court this year ruled that Britain could not provide any assistance to American investigators when the threat of death hung over the two – who are accused of being complicit in the murders of 27 people, including the British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and four Americans.
Mr Haines’ daughter Bethany told MailOnline: ‘We’ve waited over two years and have been let down by the UK legal system.
‘The way this has been handled has been terrible. I’ m glad something is finally happening.
‘Rather than the two countries communicating privately, the US has used the press to communicate, which has made this so much harder than it needed to be.
‘In regards to Bill Barr’s threat to send them to Iraq if the deadline isn’t met, I think this is purely a political move.
‘I urge both governments to remember that this is about real people and our lost loved ones getting justice.’
Last night American Attorney General Bill Barr said capital punishment could be dropped in any cases against Kotey and Elsheikh in an effort to pave the way for the men – currently being held in military detention in Iraq – to finally face justice and stand trial in the US.
He set a two-month deadline for any transfer of evidence to begin or the pair will face justice in Iraq – where ISIS fighters are sentenced to hang after five-minute hearings.
But MailOnline has learned the climbdown has currently changed nothing for the frustrated Home Office and government who are still banned from sending evidence over.
Their hands are tied by the Supreme Court judgement on data protection which said providing evidence for criminal proceedings where they could be executed breached their human rights….
An update on this story. “Furious families of the ISIS ‘Beatles’ victims slam bungling UK legal system for letting them ‘escape justice’ in the US as it’s revealed Britain STILL can’t send crucial evidence to America because it violates their ‘data protection rights,'” by Dan Sales, James Fielding, and Jake Hurfurt, Daily Mail, August 20, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Furious families of the ‘ISIS Beatles’ victims have slammed the UK legal system for ‘letting them down’ as it emerged Britain STILL can’t send crucial evidence to US because it violates their ‘data protection rights’
Bethany Haines, whose father David was beheaded by the ISIS ‘Beatles’ in Syria in 2013, savaged the way the case had been handled in the past two years.
It came as it was feared the two surviving ‘ISIS Beatles’ could never face justice in the US – because the Supreme Court ruled that handing over vital evidence breached their ‘data protection rights’ in legal action brought by one of their mothers.
Prosecutors in the US initially planned to seek Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh’s execution – and the British government want the pair prosecuted in the US, where it is thought there is a more realistic chance of prosecution than at home.
But the Supreme Court this year ruled that Britain could not provide any assistance to American investigators when the threat of death hung over the two – who are accused of being complicit in the murders of 27 people, including the British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and four Americans.
Mr Haines’ daughter Bethany told MailOnline: ‘We’ve waited over two years and have been let down by the UK legal system.
‘The way this has been handled has been terrible. I’ m glad something is finally happening.
‘Rather than the two countries communicating privately, the US has used the press to communicate, which has made this so much harder than it needed to be.
‘In regards to Bill Barr’s threat to send them to Iraq if the deadline isn’t met, I think this is purely a political move.
‘I urge both governments to remember that this is about real people and our lost loved ones getting justice.’
Last night American Attorney General Bill Barr said capital punishment could be dropped in any cases against Kotey and Elsheikh in an effort to pave the way for the men – currently being held in military detention in Iraq – to finally face justice and stand trial in the US.
He set a two-month deadline for any transfer of evidence to begin or the pair will face justice in Iraq – where ISIS fighters are sentenced to hang after five-minute hearings.
But MailOnline has learned the climbdown has currently changed nothing for the frustrated Home Office and government who are still banned from sending evidence over.
Their hands are tied by the Supreme Court judgement on data protection which said providing evidence for criminal proceedings where they could be executed breached their human rights….
