Interesting...

Consider the two following situations...



A person finds himself in a warzone, knows someone who was convicted as a terrorist, is arrested and sent to a third country and tortured, and is then sent to a fourth country to the military base of a fifth country, and is held without charge for three years before being released. After release, his home government says that he will remain a person of interest and under surveillance probably for the rest of his life, and there is no chance he will ever be compensated.



Second case - a person tries to smuggle drugs through an area of the world and a specific country that has on big bold letters that drug smuggling can mean the death penalty for you. Is subsequently convicted and is on death row in that country, and the home government of that person, during a prime ministerial visit, tries to get him off the death penalty.



Just my way of thinking, wrong place wrong time, wrong group of friends, probably has learnt his lesson after three years of incarceration, and most importantly NO CHARGE in the first case, versus convicted drug trafficker who most probably knew the risks of getting caught in the second. And the government treats them differently.



Or am I being TOOOOO liberal LOL (the first case is of course Mamdouh Habib, Australian Gitmo prisoner, second is some Aussie on death row in Singapore for trying to get 400g of heroin through Changi airport).



Pauly