article_snippet.sent: This figure reignited the row over the ease with which alleged foreign criminals could exploit human rights laws.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Ellis, a former Tory MP, said: ‘This is a shocking example of Labour’s Human Rights Act putting the rights of suspected foreign criminals ahead of the rights of the British public.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Guido Raimondi (above), of the European Court of Human Rights, said: 'the European Court of Human Rights considers that this complaint is manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected' Martuzevicius came to the UK in 1996.
article_snippet.sent: Martuzevicius claimed this violated Article 2, the right to life, and Article 3, the right to avoid inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.
article_snippet.sent: he appealed to Strasbourg under Article 3 and Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to a fair trial, because he had not been allowed to argue he ill-health during extradition proceedings.
article_snippet.sent: But in a written ruling, the European judges, led by court president Guido Raimondi, said Martuzevicius’s claim that extradition breached his human rights was ‘inadmissible’.
article_snippet.sent: the European judges, led by court president Guido Raimondi added: ‘the European Court of Human Rights considers this complaint is manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected.
highlights_snippet.sent: The case reignited row over foreign criminals exploiting human rights law .