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STOP THE EXTRADITION OF ASPERGERS SUFFERER, TALHA AHSAN

ALADDIN

See http://www.freetalha.org , 

www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=851&catid=29

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201259/You-CAN-help-Gary-McKinnon-lawyers-tell-Home-Secretary-Alan-Johnson.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/14/gary-mckinnon-aspergers-hacking

Gary McKinnon may be not be extradited to the USA. Talha Ahsan's case is hardly being mentioned. He faces pre-trial solitary confinement and a sentence in a Supermax prison unable to see his family again.

Given the secondary health problems associated with aspergers, people should write to their MPs , Amnesty International and other Human Rights organisations to ensure Talha Ahsan is not extradited.

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  • I agree we need more information.  

    Reading a few websites (difficult to find an impartial account) he was accused of running websites to recruit terrorists. It is alleged he has not been tried but has been held in Britain pending extradition to the USA.

    He appears to have been diagnosed with Aspergers in 2009 while in prison. However some of the claims about Aspergers on support websites aren't flattering to people on the spectrum - claiming things that just aren't true. The main issue, not an unreasonable, is that he faces a long term in solitary in USA. But assertions that his Aspergers will deteriorate and that he has a mental illness need corroboration.

    On the other side of the coin the fact that anyone, a British citizen or otherwise, should have been held for five years without trial, begs explanation.

    Also people in ethnic and religious communities often by their own rules, but also possibly by neglect to address ethnic groups, do not seem to get as much recognition of disability. It is very complex.

    But we need facts. It is a little worrying that Aspergers is being used for emotive leverage in ways not at all flattering to people on the spectrum or helpful to public perseption of autism.

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  • I agree we need more information.  

    Reading a few websites (difficult to find an impartial account) he was accused of running websites to recruit terrorists. It is alleged he has not been tried but has been held in Britain pending extradition to the USA.

    He appears to have been diagnosed with Aspergers in 2009 while in prison. However some of the claims about Aspergers on support websites aren't flattering to people on the spectrum - claiming things that just aren't true. The main issue, not an unreasonable, is that he faces a long term in solitary in USA. But assertions that his Aspergers will deteriorate and that he has a mental illness need corroboration.

    On the other side of the coin the fact that anyone, a British citizen or otherwise, should have been held for five years without trial, begs explanation.

    Also people in ethnic and religious communities often by their own rules, but also possibly by neglect to address ethnic groups, do not seem to get as much recognition of disability. It is very complex.

    But we need facts. It is a little worrying that Aspergers is being used for emotive leverage in ways not at all flattering to people on the spectrum or helpful to public perseption of autism.

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