Britain secretly ditches plans to send 40 terror suspects back to their homelands
Plans to the suspected jihadis back to Libya, Algeria and Morocco were dropped despite 20 of them already serving a prison sentence here
BRITAIN has secretly dropped plans to send 40 terror suspects back to their homelands.
A scheme to expel jihadis to Libya, Algeria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Morocco and Jordan has been ditched.
The DWA agreement guaranteed they would not be tortured despite poor human rights records at home and was praised by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary.
But since 2004 only 11 suspects have been deported.
Many cases collapsed or were still rejected on human rights grounds.
Now there are no plans to expel another 40 suspects, including 20 terrorists who served jail time here.
In a report on the scheme, Prof Clive Walker said: “There are currently no live cases.”
Britain has suspended its accords with Libya, Algeria and Ethiopia because changes in government brought new concerns about torture.
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Colonel Richard Kemp, a former top Whitehall terror advisor, said: “Human rights of terrorists are being placed above the human rights of men, women and children on the streets.”
France has expelled 126 jihadis since 2004, most to Algeria.
Britain sent only nine to Algeria and two to Jordan.
The main DWA success was radical cleric Abu Qatada, flown back to Jordan in 2013.
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