“In line with previous cases, the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Holroyde ruled that when the US administration gives a promise to the UK of fair and humane treatment of a detainee, its word should not be doubted.”
A lower court blocked the extradition over suicide risk in US prison. The US then promised to go easy on him, and the High Court took that promise at face value. The promise carves out anything he does later that “merits” harsher treatment. The US decides what merits it. Publishing leaked documents is the crime on trial, and every newsroom should notice.