Wednesday, June 20, 2012

6:00pm until 8:00pm

Committee Room 10,
House of Commons,
London
SW1A 0AA


Important meeting on Extradition

Featuring

Caroline Lucas MP
John Hemming MP
Sadiq Khan MP (Shadow Justice Secretary)
Gareth Peirce
Victoria Brittain
David Bermingham (Natwest Three)
Sir Iqbal Sacranie
Ashfaq Ahmad

About:

- Talha Ahsan:
Poet & writer with Aspergers syndrome detained 6 years without trial or charge. Never been to the USA.
- Babar Ahmad:
Longest detained without trial British Citizen in modern British History – detained for 8 years without trial or charge -
assault and brutalised by the police violence
and Gary Mckinnon, Richard O’Dwyer.

… may be extradited to US Solitary confinement
notorious 2003 EXTRADITION US-UK Treaty where NO prima facie EVIDENCE is required

ALL WELCOME

- Talha Ahsan:
Poet & writer with Aspergers syndrome detained 6 years without trial or charge. Never been to the USA.
- Babar Ahmad:
Longest detained without trial British Citizen in modern British History – detained for 8 years without trial or charge

Abu Ahsan had high hopes for his son Talha when he was growing up.

He was educated at Dulwich College - a leading private school in south London - where fellow pupils remember him as an intelligent and bookish boy.

But Talha Ahsan has now spent nearly six years in jail awaiting extradition to America on terror charges.

And his father is worried if he is sent abroad they may never see him again.

"I don't know whether we'll be allowed to visit him," he said. "It is very depressing because I am 73 years old and my wife is disabled.

"If he has done anything wrong he should be tried in this country."

Mr Ahsan is accused in the same case as Babar Ahmad, also from Tooting and also fighting extradition.

US prosecutors allege the pair ran a jihadi website from London but hosted it on American internet service providers.

It is claimed they used the now defunct site - Azzam Publications - to upload extremist videos, raise funds for the Taliban and insurgents in Chechnya.