Babar Ahmad has spent seven years behind bars fight against an extradition warrant from the United States. Innocent or not, deserves a fair trial here
On December 2, 2003, in the middle of the night, the anti-terrorist group known territorial support of the Metropolitan Police raided the house of a computer programmer named Babar Ahmad Tooting, south of London. Ahmad was beaten, beaten and strangled. He arrived at Paddington Station, with 73 injuries on his body. However, only six days later was released without charge (and later offered £ 60,000 compensation for the Met, who admitted that he had a heart "serious, gratuitous and prolonged ").
However, Ahmad "test" - to quote Geoffrey Rivlin QC judge in a recent hearing - was not over. This is just the beginning of the Orwellian nightmare. Nine months later, August 5, 2004, Ahmad was arrested again for Scotland Yard officers acting on an extradition warrant from the United States. The Americans accused of running a website to raise funds for Islamic terrorists and providing material support to the Taliban, Chechen mujahideen and al Qaeda.
For seven long years, Ahmad has languished in prison, the fight against extradition - the Labour government "uneven" (Nick Clegg) and "rotten" extradition (Shami Chakrabarti) Act 2003 that allows British citizens to be removed from the UK without the need for a tribunal to hear if there are any real evidence against him - and appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to block the passage. He is suspected of being longer than the British citizen detained -. The defendant has or loaded as a "Class A" high-security prison for 88 months
But it could be about to change? In June, a report of the Joint Committee of the European Parliament on human rights concluded that "the most appropriate forum" safeguards must be implemented, allowing a British judge "to refuse extradition if the offense alleged held wholly or mainly in the UK ". and called an" obligation of the requesting country to show a prima facie case "
- So this month, the "Put Babar Ahmad to stand trial in the UK" e-petition secured its 100,000 signatures century, crossing the mark required to enable a parliamentary debate. Supported by a handful of celebrities, including comedian Mark Thomas and boxer Amir Khan, and a dozen mosques, some British, the demand for e-Ahmad is one of five so far attracted over 100,000 signatures (coverage press, but few).
entire episode feels a miscarriage of justice. If Ahmad is a terrorist or terrorist-related, why not our own service of the Crown Prosecution repeatedly refused to judge? Why the British authorities decided to release him without charge after his first arrest in December 2003, despite a range of anti-terrorism laws at his disposal? Could it be that the "evidence" against him there? For example, the U.S. request for extradition Department of Justice in 2004 drew the attention of a missing person, a travel brochure of four pages of the Empire State Building is the home of Ahmad by members of the TSG. In fact, the brochure was collected by Ahmad's father during a visit to New York ... 1973. (This does not, however, that unnamed "federal officials" to be used to inform the New York Daily News in October 2004 that "Al-Qaida thugs ... maybe consider the possibility of lowering the building an empire state aa ".)
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