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STOP THE EXTRADITION OF ASPERGERS SUFFERER, TALHA AHSAN

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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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  • A person with aspergers has difficulty engaging in social interaction - can be alone in a crowded room. Solitary would be less of an ordeal for someone with aspergers.

    In Gary Mackinnon's case he did something foolish which could partly be explained by aspergers, in that he may have lacked sufficient understanding of the implications of what he did. To be honest he propbably did the US a favour by demonstrating that the US computing advisers weren't as good as they supposed in creating a hacker proof system.

    Can Talha Ahsan's alleged use of websites to recruit terrorists be similarly explained? If we had evidence this was due to his Aspergers perhaps a similar argument could be put forward. But just because he has aspergers is not a sufficient case for leniency if he is guilty if aspergers cannot be attributed as a causal factor.

    Also it is not fair to others on the spectrum to make some of the inferences about it being a mental health condition or a disease, or claiming his aspergers will deteriorate. It promotes neither Talha's case nor the interests of people on the autistic spectrum to so misrepresent Aspergers as is conspicuously being done in this protest

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  • A person with aspergers has difficulty engaging in social interaction - can be alone in a crowded room. Solitary would be less of an ordeal for someone with aspergers.

    In Gary Mackinnon's case he did something foolish which could partly be explained by aspergers, in that he may have lacked sufficient understanding of the implications of what he did. To be honest he propbably did the US a favour by demonstrating that the US computing advisers weren't as good as they supposed in creating a hacker proof system.

    Can Talha Ahsan's alleged use of websites to recruit terrorists be similarly explained? If we had evidence this was due to his Aspergers perhaps a similar argument could be put forward. But just because he has aspergers is not a sufficient case for leniency if he is guilty if aspergers cannot be attributed as a causal factor.

    Also it is not fair to others on the spectrum to make some of the inferences about it being a mental health condition or a disease, or claiming his aspergers will deteriorate. It promotes neither Talha's case nor the interests of people on the autistic spectrum to so misrepresent Aspergers as is conspicuously being done in this protest

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