Guilty With No Opportunity of Being Proven Innocent

[reprehensor]

I was unfamiliar with the "2003 Extradition Act". In the excerpts below, author Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed details some of the consequences of the act on foreign nationals;

"Despite being very familiar with the history of US-UK counterterrorism operations and their often draconian and indiscriminate focus on Muslim communities, Talha’s case – and the fact that I’d never even heard about it in the mainstream press – shocked me to the bone. On 19th July 2006, Talha had been suddenly arrested by British police at his home. That very week, he had several job interviews scheduled to train as a librarian – although diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, Talha is an extraordinarily bright young man, who had recently graduated with first class honours from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Since then he has been imprisoned without charge.

Talha’s arrest was made at the request of US authorities under the 2003 Extradition Act. Unfortunately the Act requires no presentation of even prima facie evidence that would back-up a charge. Instead, US authorities can simply issue a demand to their British counterparts, who on that basis can detain people indefinitely without charge or trial. Although never questioned by either British or US police, Talha has now been in prison for half a decade, although no effort has ever been made to prove his guilt, or to assess the US government’s alleged case against him...


"In one case, the extradition process appears designed to conceal the dubious and dangerous activities of security agencies. Another Briton awaiting extradition to the US is Haroon Rashid Aswat. Officially, US authorities want him to stand trial because, they say, he was involved in helping to set-up a terrorist training camp in Oregon in 1999. But the extradition request came after Aswat was arrested by British police shortly after the 7/7 attacks, which they suspected him of masterminding.

The arrest was based on extensive telephone intercepts between Aswat and the 7/7 ringleader Mohamed Sidique Khan, in the weeks prior to the attacks. When former Army intelligence officer and US Justice Department prosecutor John Loftus came on record confirming that Aswat, along with Abu Hamza and Omar Bakri Mohammed, had been on the MI6 payroll since 1996 to facilitate Islamist-activities in the Balkans, British authorities almost immediately softened their allegations that Aswat had masterminded the 7/7 attacks, and subsequently withdrew the allegations completely without explanation..."

Continued:
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/new-in-ceasefire/free-talha/

[hootinholler]

1. No Habeas

Son of a Bitch.

-Hoot