US plans to trial foreign terrorist suspects in military tribunals could make it difficult to extradite the defendants from Europe as the hearings could be seen as violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights and therefore is causing human right concerns.
Belgian justice minister Marc Verwilghen and his counterpart US Attorney General John Ashcroft have recently been in "almost continuous contact" on this matter, said Verwilghen's spokesman, Joannes Thuy to AP, quoted by N...
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