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Soph0571

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Sat Nov 23, 2019, 09:48 AM Nov 2019

UK citizens at risk of death penalty or Guantanamo Bay under new deal with US, parliamentary inquiry

hears

UK citizens are at risk of the death penalty in the US – or of being sent to Guantanamo Bay – under a fast-track data-sharing deal struck by Priti Patel, a parliamentary inquiry is warning.

The home secretary also comes under fire for keeping the details of the agreement reached with Washington under wraps when it was announced as a breakthrough last month.

The deal will give police and intelligence agencies speedy access to electronic communications sent by terrorists, serious crime gangs and white-collar criminals.

But the investigation, by a House of Lords committee, has poured scorn on a claim that the UK will be able to contain “credible assurances” that extradited suspects will not be put to death.

It also strongly criticises the “asymmetric” nature of the arrangement – which will give the US far greater powers to target UK citizens than vice-versa.


[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-citizen-us-death-penalty-guantanamo-bay-priti-patel-a9214326.html|

Well Pritti has always had a hard on for the death penalty coming back.
This is a taste of what to come post Brexit chaps.
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UK citizens at risk of death penalty or Guantanamo Bay under new deal with US, parliamentary inquiry (Original Post) Soph0571 Nov 2019 OP
What could go wrong?😳 dewsgirl Nov 2019 #1
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