On September 4, 2014, a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) ruled in Trabelsi v. Belgium that Belgium’s extradition of a Tunisian national to the US, where he is being prosecuted for terrorist offenses and is liable to life imprisonment, entailed a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention).  According to the press release, “[t]he Court considered that the life sentence to which Mr Trabelsi was liable in the United States was irreducible inasmuch as US law provided for no adequate mechanism for reviewing this type of sentence, and that it was therefore contrary to the provisions of Article 3.”  The Court noted that Belgium had acted in breach of interim measures from 2011 where the Court had “indicated to the Belgian Government that it should not extradite Mr Trabelsi to the United States.”  The Court also held that Belgium is to pay the applicant €60,000 for non-pecuniary damage and €30,000 for costs and expenses.