William Dartmouth

European Arrest Warrants and Violations of Basic Human Rights

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Corfe Castle in Dorset, with its keep and dungeons where in the early 13th century king John kept his most important prisoners. Eight hundred years ago, pre-Magna Carta, if you crossed the king you could expect to be incarcerated in a dungeon like this, without trial or any legal protection.

 

If you wouldn't think that could happen today in a modern democratized 21st century Europe, but there are people. Thanks in part to the European Arrest Warrant, who find themselves locked up in appalling conditions, hundreds of miles from home, in an alien jurisdiction without access to the legal representation, and denied basic human rights.

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