Downing Street Says » Abu Qatada

» Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Abu Qatada

Asked if the Government was looking at all options to deport Abu Qatada, including temporarily leaving the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said the Government was looking at all options. As the Home Secretary had set out that day, the Government was taking forward a mutual assistance treaty with Jordan, as well as seeking permission from the Supreme Court to appeal. He said the Government believed the treaty would deliver the protection required by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) to allow Qatada’s deportation. The PMS said the Government was working very hard to deport Qatada, who he said was a dangerous individual. He said intensive discussions with the Jordanian authorities had resulted in the treaty. The PMS described this as the right track to pursue, along with the appeal, and repeated the point that the Prime Minister was prepared to pursue all options.

Asked if the Prime Minister was confident he had the support of the Deputy Prime Minister, the PMS said the Government was committed to doing all it could and had that day announced a treaty with the Jordanians.

Questioned on whether the Prime Minister had confidence in the legal process, the PMS said the Prime Minister shared the view of the Home Secretary: the treaty included two articles that directly address the burden of proof issues that SIAC had identified.

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Post a public comment

Name (required)
E-mail (required)
(You must give an email address, but it will not be displayed to the public.)
Website
(You may give your website, and it will be displayed to the public.)

Comments:

This is not a way of contacting the Prime Minister. If you would like to contact the Prime Minister, go to the 10 Downing Street official site.

Privacy note: Shortly after posting, your name and comment will be displayed on the site. This means that people searching for your name on the Internet will be able to find and read your comment.

Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says.

April 2013

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

« Mar

May »

» Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Abu Qatada

No Comments »

Post a public comment

Search

Supported by

Recent Briefings

Archives

Links

Syndicate (RSS/XML)

Credits

Enquiries