US must vow not to execute
2004-05-28 16:07
Sheffield - Britain will not allow radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to be extradited to the United States unless there is a clear US undertaking that he will not be executed, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said on Friday.
In the case of Hamza, who faces 11 terrorism-related charges in the United States, Britain would abide by existing agreements that forbid the extradition of suspects if they face a possible death sentence, Blunkett confirmed.
"All I'd say is that we do have an agreement, and we all know it is essential to get the extradition (of Hamza) agreed and that means that there will be an undertaking that whatever else the sentence, it will not lead to execution," Blunkett said on a trip to the city of Sheffield, northern England.