Norway's Police Security Service (PST) wants to stop foreigners deemed a threat to national security from having the option of pursuing their case through the court system. The PST believes that such cases must be handled by a closed committee, and without the foreigners in question allowed to follow the process. "The security policy will appoint secret lawyers," PST chief Jørn Holme told NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting).
Mullah Krekar, the former leader of Kurdish guerilla group Ansar al-Islam in Northern Iraq, has been fighting the decision to expel him from Norway for nearly three years.
Holme believes that similar cases in the future will require better handling of secret and confidential material. "So we have a need for a model that allows these cases to be handled more efficiently, but at the same time can in fact provide better legal safeguards for the person in question," Holme said, and the PST prefers a closed committee in the Immigration Appeals Board (UNE).
The Norwegian Bar Association believes the PST proposal is not only undemocratic but that it violates traditional Norwegian legal practice.
A proposal that promotes true Western European values: "Secret lawyers", "Closed Committees", no right to follow the case. And nothing said about detention and habeus corpus, but, what the heck ... |