UK citizens at risk of death penalty or Guantanamo Bay under new deal with US, parliamentary inquiry

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UK citizens are at risk of the death penalty in the US – or of being sent to Guantanamo Bay – under a fast-track data-sharing deal struck by Priti Patel, a parliamentary inquiry is warning.

The home secretary also comes under fire for keeping the details of the agreement reached with Washington under wraps when it was announced as a breakthrough last month.

The deal will give police and intelligence agencies speedy access to electronic communications sent by terrorists, serious crime gangs and white-collar criminals.

But the investigation, by a House of Lords committee, has poured scorn on a claim that the UK will be able to contain “credible assurances” that extradited suspects will not be put to death.

It also strongly criticises the “asymmetric” nature of the arrangement – which will give the US far greater powers to target UK citizens than vice-versa.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-citizen-us-death-penalty-guantanamo-bay-priti-patel-a9214326.html

Well Pritti has always had a hard on for the death penalty coming back.
This is a taste of what to come post Brexit chaps.