Kenny MacAskill

Kenny MacAskill ( Scottish Gaelic Coinneach MacAsgaill; born April 28, 1958 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a British lawyer and politician (SNP ) and since 2007 Minister of Justice in Scotland.

Life

MacAskill attended Linlithgow Academy and then studied law at the University of Edinburgh. He then worked as a lawyer.

Political career

In the 1990s, he belonged to the wing of the SNP, who demanded a quick proclamation of the independence of Scotland, and was often not with today's First Minister Alex Salmond agrees. Since 1999, MacAskill is a Member of the Scottish Parliament.

Regarding the attack on the Glasgow International Airport, he claimed that he had not been perpetrated by local citizens of Scotland, but of those living there people.

On 20 August 2009 MacAskill of Libya, however, as political prisoners respected Abdel Basset Ali al -Megrahi was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing, released because he was stricken with cancer and had to live, according to doctors less than three months. Hillary Clinton had called the Minister of Justice before the announcement of his decision and urged al -Megrahi not released.

Publications

• Building a Nation - Post Devolution Nationalism in Scotland ( 2004)
• Agenda for a New Scotland - Visions of Scotland 2020