Regina (Al-Saadoon and Another) v Secretary of State for Defence – Times Law Reports

Posted February 4th, 2009 in detention, human rights, Iraq, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Regina (Al-Saadoon and Another) v Secretary of State for Defence

Court of Appeal

“Iraqi detainees held in a United Kingdom internment facility in Iraq on the authority of the local criminal court were not under the jurisdiction of the UK for the purposes of the European Convention on Human Rights.”

The Times, 4th February 2009

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