UK Premiere of film about the Connecticut Supermax prison that houses two extradited British nationals. With Amnesty International & Special Guests from the USA Solitary Watch. Date of event : 16th May 2013, 6pm – 9pm Location : Kings College, Room S-2.08, King’s Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS We are excited to announce an upcoming special event entitled...
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Talha Ahsan was extradited to the US in 2012 after spending six years in high security prisons in the UK. Like Gary McKinnon, he has Asperger Syndrome, and is now in a supermax prison in Connecticut. Ian Patel explains how this was able to happen. BY IAN PATEL A still from the Yale Law School film “The Worst of the Worst” about the prison where...
Learn MoreThe Muslim Council of Britain continues to receive messages of concern from its network of mosques and affiliates with the cavalier attitude by those entrusted to observe due process with matters of civil rights and liberties of British residents and citizens. In the past year the Muslim community has seen the deportation to the US of Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan....
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Syed Talha Ahsan is a British citizen. He has served the equivalent of a twelve year prison sentence without trial. Despite suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome, he is a Platinum Koestler Award winning poet and translator. In pretrial solitary confinement in a Supermax security prison in Connecticut, his work continues to be projected across what he thought was his...
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January 23rd 2013 A painting entitled: British Justice for British Citizens? by a young British artist Kamel Baksh compares Theresa May treatment of Talha Ahsan and Gary Mckinnon The painting features a blind folded Theresa May in the centre, against a union jack and the scales of Justice with Gary Mckinnon case to the left and Talha Ahsan to the right, topped with a...
Learn Moreby Andy Croft The Star’s 21st-century poetry reviews editor Andy Croft gets the low-down from fellow poets on the collections which have most impressed in 2012 Pat Winslow Three collections have burned themselves into me this year. Christopher Reid’s A Scattering (Arete, 2009) is sad, remarkable and honest – “My wife is in there, somewhere, doing...
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