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Seems once someone is arrested they are automatically guilty. Which really is a worrying trend, like a lynch mob mentality but without the pitchforks and flaming torches.Quite depressing reading some of the comments above. To think we share the trails with people who are that close minded
Oh the irony...
Looking back, I only see one poster possibly prejudging guilt.
Looking back, I only see one poster possibly prejudging guilt.
Your right, well done.
I was trying to make two separate points, hence the gap in the text. Will try harder to differentiate more clearly in future.
Not sure why it's an ironic statement though, guess you just like the word 😉
If the FBI set up a shell company to entice people to sell items believing it to be legit, but the company is set up to entrap people then I believe that is a defence in the States. Innocent until proven guilty
A defence the UK courts found unsustainable in his recent appeal, nor did they find the prospect of extradition "oppresive". I don't know whether he's guilty, the original question was about the extradition treaty, as has been said he seems to have taken his case to the courts in this country and it's been rejected.
AFAIK the level of suspicion / proof for this treaty is no different to extradition under an EAW (judicial desicion to seek arrest) which goes on without a murmur of dissent
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17266000 ]Extradited Briton Chris Tappin denied bail in US[/url]
[i]"He wore an orange jumpsuit and had his feet and one hand shackled - the other was left free so that he could use a cane."[/i]
No one wants a prisoner to flee, but it really is time that the United States joined other civilised nations into the 21st century.
This geezer is still innocent until the point when, or if, it is proven otherwise.
Shame on the British government for not demanding that a British citizen be treated in a more humane way.
I have no doubt that they would have had something to say if an old man with a walking stick and British nationality had been hauled before an Iranian court in shackles.
+1 ^^^^