Prague court rules in favour of extradition three suspect terrorists

Prague’s Municipal court on Wednesday ruled in favour of extraditing three suspected terrorist collaborators to the US. The three were caught trying to sell arms for cocaine by undercover US agents passing as members of the Colombian FARC group. The men, two of them from the Ivory Coast and the third a Lebanese with Ukrainian citizenship, were detained in Prague last April and have been in Czech custody ever since. The extradition order has to be confirmed by the Minister of Justice Robert Pelikán. The Municipal Court has previously sought assurances from the US that the three would not be tortured, subject to unhuman treatment, or subjected to solitary confinement.

Author: Ruth Fraňková