An Afghan migrant who was accused of smuggling thousands of people into Britain cannot be extradited to Belgium due to the prison’s mosquitoes.
Ziarmal Khan had been alleged to be one of the people smugglers, transporting migrants from Afghanistan into Europe - including countries like France and its neighbouring nation Belgium.
In Belgium, he was handed a jail sentence in absentia before he was arrested in the UK.
The 25-year-old’s gang would then help thousands of migrants make the perilous journey across the English Channel to British shores.
The man is currently battling deportation because the sanitary conditions in the Belgian prison are not up to scratch.
Defence lawyer Louise Willocx said: “In addition to sanitary facilities, there is vermin, mosquito plagues, regular flooding and single glazing. Similar conditions exist in Antwerp.”
Additionally, she explained that three prisoners would often share a cell together, leading to cramped space, and that inmates would be forced to use a bucket in place of a toilet.
Consequently, the migrant’s defence team argued that his extradition would therefore violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) over “inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
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Ziarmal Khan had been alleged to be one of the people smugglers, transporting migrants from Afghanistan into Europe - including countries like France and its neighbouring nation Belgium.
In Belgium, he was handed a jail sentence in absentia before he was arrested in the UK.
The 25-year-old’s gang would then help thousands of migrants make the perilous journey across the English Channel to British shores.
The man is currently battling deportation because the sanitary conditions in the Belgian prison are not up to scratch.
Defence lawyer Louise Willocx said: “In addition to sanitary facilities, there is vermin, mosquito plagues, regular flooding and single glazing. Similar conditions exist in Antwerp.”
Additionally, she explained that three prisoners would often share a cell together, leading to cramped space, and that inmates would be forced to use a bucket in place of a toilet.
Consequently, the migrant’s defence team argued that his extradition would therefore violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) over “inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
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