A bent row over absent deadlines has burst out amid London and Strasbourg afterwards the European cloister of animal rights badly apoplectic an attack to deport the abolitionist Islamist apostolic Abu Qatada, beneath than 24 hours afterwards it was ordered by the home secretary.
Theresa May ordered Qatada's arrest and apprehension on Tuesday in the acceptance that the three-month borderline for appeals to be lodged adjoin the aboriginal Strasbourg cardinal on the case on 17 January had anesthetized at midnight on Monday. But it emerged on Wednesday that Qatada's attorneys had lodged an 11th-hour address on Tuesday night, putting a arrest on moves by the Home Office to columnist advanced with displacement proceedings.
The development, on the eve of the British-organised celebrated Council of Europe appointment in Brighton to ameliorate the alive of the European cloister of animal rights, is awkward to the home secretary who told the Commons on Tuesday that Qatada could now be beatific aback to Jordan "in abounding acquiescence with the law".
But the European cloister of animal rights insisted the borderline was absolutely midnight on Tuesday and accustomed the address appliance from Qatada's attorneys at 11pm on Tuesday night.
A backer said this meant the acknowledged block on the abolitionist cleric's displacement to Jordan remained in force until a console of European board absitively whether the case should go to the court's admirable alcove on appeal. No date has yet been anchored for that hearing.
The European cloister of animal rights backer accepted to the Guardian that it believed the borderline was absolutely midnight on Tuesday, and not Monday night as was affected by the Home Office.
"We did accept a barometer to the admirable alcove from the appellant at 11pm and it will be absitively by a console of board at a date to be fixed," she said.
But the Home Office acerb disputes this, insisting that the borderline for appeals to the aboriginal Strasbourg cardinal anesthetized afterwards three months on midnight on Monday 16 April, appropriation the 'rule 39' admonition and assuredly allowance the way for his deportation.
"Qatada has no appropriate to accredit the case to the admirable alcove of the European cloister of animal rights, aback the three-month borderline to do so accomplished at midnight on Monday night. His case should be heard in British courts, as the home secretary categorical to assembly yesterday. In the meantime, he charcoal in custody," said a Home Office spokesman.
The Strasbourg cloister said that Qatada's attorneys had lodged an address adjoin the aboriginal animal rights cloister cardinal on the area that it was amiss to adjudge that he would not alone be at accident of ache himself if he was beatific aback to Jordan.
