And here are TEN reasons why they’re so very wrong
1 HATE preacher Abu Hamza’s lawyers used human rights laws to frustrate his extradition for eight years, costing taxpayers £25 million. He tried to argue his extradition to America was unlawful as he could be subject to ‘ill-treatment’ – contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. When he was finally sent to the US in 2015, he was handed two life sentences, plus 100 years. 2 RONALD Fiddler’s lawyers used the Human Rights Act to get him up to £1 million in compensation following his detention in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay. In February this year, the 50-year-old blew himself up in a suicide car bombing at an Iraqi army base. 3 EXTREMIST cleric Abu Qatada used human rights legislation to delay his removal to Jordan on terror charges. In a controversial 2012 ruling, the Strasbourg court said the fanatic could not be removed on the grounds he would not get a ‘fair trial’. He was finally deported to Jordan in 2013 but later acquitted of plotting atrocities. 4 SIX Algerian terror suspects with links to Al-Qaeda were allowed to stay in Britain last year after a costly and lengthy legal battle. The Islamist extremists – two of whom were connected to a poison murder plot – were freed after an immigration court said there was a ‘real risk’ they would be tortured if they were deported to Algeria. 5 A HATE preacher won a legal bid to have his tag removed despite breaching his control order at least 11 times. The fanatic – who cannot be named for legal reasons – was suspected of helping to raise thousands of pounds for terror group Al Shabaab. A High Court ruled in 2015 that the tag was making him delusional because he believed MI5 had put a bomb inside it. This was a breach of Article 3 – prohibiting torture. NINE hijackers took control of an internal flight in Afghanistan in 2000 before flying it to the UK and threatening to kill those on board unless they were granted asylum. An immigration court in 2005 ruled they could not be sent back to Afghanistan because they could be exposed to ‘inhumane or degrading treatment’. 7A
TALIBAN thug accused of murder in Afghanistan was allowed to stay in Britain. Judges ruled in 2015 that deporting the 32-year-old, whose name was withheld by the courts, would breach Article 3 as he could be ‘at risk of mistreatment and physical harm’. 8 A CONVICTED Al-Qaeda terrorist linked to the Charlie Hebdo massacre was allowed to stay to protect his ‘right to family life’. Baghdad Meziane was jailed for 11 years in 2003 for running a terror network. Yet he was released from prison five years early and allowed to return to his family home in Leicester. 9TWO Libyan extremists deemed a threat to national security were allowed to stay. An immigration court ruled in 2007 that their human rights could be breached. 10 A COURT ruled that hate preacher Hani al-Sibai, who has links to the Tunisian beach massacre and is also said to have radicalised the IS executioner known as ‘Jihadi John’, cannot be returned to Egypt because he might be tortured or killed. Over two decades he has received £123,000 in legal aid.