The Constitutional Court on the case of Khalfan Mohamed,...

The Constitutional Court on the case of Khalfan Mohamed, an alleged embassy bomber, ruled that South African government should have sought protection from the death penalty for alleged embassy bomber Mohamed before handing him to the FBI for trial in America. His lawyer was Anwar Albertus. The Judge President of the court, Arthur Chaskalson, said South African authorities had not followed proper procedure in Mohamed's handover to the FBI and that his rights were infringed.The court ordered that the Constitutional Court summary be urgently sent to the administrative head of the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York, where Mohamed's trial is being held."The rights in issue here are the right to human dignity, the right to life and the right not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman or degrading way," Chaskalson said.The South African Constitution forbids the government from participating in, or facilitating, the imposition of such punishment, particularly the death sentence. The Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging (AEB) said, as regard this judgement, that ruled that criminals may not be extradited to countries where they may be sentenced to death, it will change South Africa into a safe haven for murderers.