Napoleon: An Extraordinary Rendition (2010)
After Napoleon's surrender in 1815, the British faced legal and political challenges on how to handle him, debating his status as a prisoner of war or outlaw. The government's actions set a precedent for contemporary prisoner rights issues.
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In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, he surrendered to Captain Maitland of HMS Bellerophon, leading to a complex legal and political dilemma for the British. The British faced the challenge of how to handle Napoleon, with public sympathy complicating legal proceedings. Napoleon's status as a prisoner of war or outlaw was debated, while the Allies had differing views on his fate. The British government, burdened with guarding him, grappled with the concept of 'extraordinary rendition' and the legality of his detainment. Despite Napoleon's belief in being treated as a prisoner of war, the British government struggled to find a lawful solution, resorting to holding him on St Helena indefinitely. Legal uncertainties and concerns over public opinion led to drastic measures to prevent Napoleon from appearing in English courts. The government's actions to avoid legal and moral dilemmas set a precedent for contemporary issues surrounding prisoners' rights and rendition. Lord Campbell later criticized the treatment of Napoleon on St Helena as cruel, shaping the perception of Napoleon's heroism in adversity.
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5 commentsInteresting. Britain has parliamentary sovereignty, so there's no protection from parliament _at all_ under the law (then and now), and parliament are well within their rights to pass a bill of attainder which is a new law essentially punishing a specific person or group.
In this case, he was seeking protection from the government on the (surprisingly reasonable!) basis that parliament itself might be sufficiently sympathetic to him to not simply lop off his head.
be careful where your finger points because 4 of them may point back at yourself.
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