The Commissioner for Human Rights declared: “The purported cost to transatlantic relations of pursuing such accountability cannot be compared to the damage inflicted on our European system of human rights protection by allowing ourselves to be kept in the dark.”
In a letter of condolence to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Jagland condemns “another terrorist attack against your colleagues striving to protect and promote peace, security and social and economic development of the local population.”
A special UN counter-terrorism conference, hosted by the Council of Europe, starts tomorrow.
The case concerned the deportation to Tunisia in 2009 of Ali Ben Sassi Toumi, convicted of terrorist offences, despite an indication from the European Court of Human Rights to the effect that execution of the measure should be stayed so as not to deprive the application pending before the Court of any useful effect.
Judges will listen to arguments this morning concerning measures taken, according to UN Resolutions, against a man accused of ties with al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
