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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