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'FREE GARY' CAMPAIGNERS URGE OTHERS TO JOIN LONDON DEMONSTRATION |
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 28th November 2008
Teresa B, who lives in Berkeley is trying to bring together a group of
campaigners to join demonstrations in support of Gary McKinnon at US
Embassy in London on Friday 5th December 2008, 5pm - 7pm
British citizen Gary McKinnon, is facing "fast track" extradition to the USA, after over six years since his initial arrest. Gary was indicted by a US court in November 2002, accused of "hacking" into over 90 US Military computer systems from here in the UK.
Teresa B said: "Gary McKinnon has always admitted computer misuse, but always denied causing the alleged damage. It is wrong that any U.K citizen facing extradition is not allowed to challenge the allegations in a court of law but is only allowed to fight the extradition on Human Rights grounds. I would welcome others to come along on Friday 5th December. Please call Philip Booth on 01453 755451 so we can all link up."
Philip Booth, a local District Councillor who has also supported the Free Gary campaign on his blog site, said: "A Green party colleague has been in touch with Gary’s mum, Janis, and she said: ‘Gary is a vegetarian and a gentle pacifist who has Asperger’s Syndrome but his extradition has been relentlessly pursued by both the U.K and the American governments as though he is a terrorist. She says the European Court on Human Rights has turned down Gary's appeal but that it accepted Abu Hamza's and allowed him a stay, even though the Human Rights Points presented to the ECHR for Gary were virtually identical in both cases.’"
Philip Booth added: "The U.K government has perversely signed a one sided extradition treaty that has given more rights to American citizens as we in the U.K have to provide actual proof/evidence before we can extradite a U.S citizen. There have been cross-party calls for an assurance that Gary McKinnon will be repatriated following a conviction in the US. Gordon Brown must now ensure that happens if the courts finally decided on Friday 5th to extradite."
An Early Day Motion set up to stop the extradition was signed by Forest MP Mark Harper but not by David Drew MP.
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