Extradition Detainee Talha Ahsan Wins Top Poetry Award at Koestler 2012

Actress Manjinder Virk (above) reads from Ahsan’s prison poetry at the Extradite Me, I’m British event this month. PRESS RELEASE 19. 09. 2012 Extradition detainee Talha Ahsan has won the Platinum Award for his poem “Grieving” at the Koestler awards 2012 – the annual nationwide prisoner arts award, which will be exhibited from September 20th at...

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Press Release – Re: Private Prosecution of Talha Ahsan

06 September 2012 Talha Ahsan’s family are aware of media reports circulating today concerning Karl Watkin’s private prosecution of their son Talha Ahsan and his co-defendant, Babar Ahmad.  They have no comment to make at present.     Notes to Editors:   1.      Talha Ahsan has been detained without trial since  July 2006 following an...

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Brother of British Extradition detainee presents Cultural Event on US-UK Extradition laws

Press Release Date: 25.08.12 “Extradite Me, I’m British” Hamja Ahsan, the brother of Extradition detainee Talha Ahsan will be curating a Cultural Event on US-UK Extradition laws – currently affecting British citizens Babar Ahmad, Richard O’Dwyer and Gary Mckinnon. The event is being held at London’s “Rich Mix” venue from 7pm – 11pm, 8th...

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Statement from Birnberg Peirce on ECHR Decision

Statement from Birnberg Peirce and Partners, lawyers representing men facing extradition from Britain to the US, following the judgment handed down by the European Court of Human Rights in the case Babar Ahmad and Others on 10 April 2012 Re: Babar Ahmad and Others: European Court of Human Rights decision 10th April 2012     The European Court has decided,...

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SACC Press Release: Babar Ahmad case a “travesty of justice ” says lawyer Aamer Anwar

SACC Press Release from Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) is deeply disappointed by today’s decision by the European Court of Human Rights to allow the extradition of five men from Britain to the US to face terrorism charges, despite the harshness of US prison regimes and the likelihood that...

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ECHR Press Release: Detention conditions and length of sentences of five alleged terrorists would not amount to ill-treatment if they were extradited to the USA

The case Babar Ahmad and Others v. the United Kingdom (application nos. 24027/07, 11949/08, 36742/08, 66911/09 and 67354/09) concerned six alleged international terrorists – Babar Ahmad, Haroon Rashid Aswat, Syed Tahla Ahsan, Mustafa Kamal Mustafa (known more commonly as Abu Hamza), Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled Al-Fawwaz – who have been detained in the United Kingdom...

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