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Africa North
Algeria, Britain Reach Agreement on Deportation of Algerian Fundamentalists
2006-01-23
Algeria intends to reveal details of a security and judicial agreement with Britain concerning the deportation of Algerian fundamentalists which the British Government considers a danger to British security. Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz told correspondents in parliament the day before yesterday that the "results we have reached during the preparation of the agreement are very, very conclusive." Faced by the correspondents' insistence to give them more details of the agreement over which there was much talk during the past eight months, the minister said only: "We are about to undertake a considerable action and you will see the purport of this action soon. It is a matter of time." The minister did not identify the British side that the Algerians negotiated with to reach an agreement that would allow the Algerian Government to receive persons residing in Britain who were given jail sentences by the Algerian judiciary on charges of terrorism or are wanted for questioning in terror-related cases.

Judicial sources told "Asharq al-Awsat" that the British "laid down very strict conditions in return for agreeing in principle to deport any person wanted by Algeria. The most important is a pledge not to torture, execute, or even humiliate him." The same sources pointed out that the British security delegation that came to Algiers last September for the purpose of discussing the arrangements for the agreement "asserted to us that the authorities were facing great difficulties in persuading the judiciary to extradite any person to another country, especially if that person holds British citizenship. British courts demand strict and substantive guarantees that prove irrevocably that the concerned person poses a danger to internal security before agreeing to his deportation."
Posted by:Fred

#1  Fire up the blow torch...
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-01-23 03:50  

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