Gary McKinnon

[andrewducker]

Can anyone explain to me, in nice simple English, why we shouldn't be extraditing a convicted hacker to the country where he commited the crime?  It really does seem like an open and shut case to me, and I'm baffled why some people seem to think it's wrong.

I'm clearly missing something - can someone explain it to me?

Comments

[andrewducker]

That's not actually true. You can be extradited _without evidence_ to the USA, (and Australia, Canada and New Zealand) - everywhere else in the world they need to have enough evidence to convict.

And it has now been ratified - it was ratified in 2006, three years after we put it into action ourselves. which means it's reciprocal, and has been for three years.

See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Mmkay, maybe I'm wrong there. I've been told by people who know about laws and stuff that, practically speaking, the US can extradite and we can't. But I don't have direct evidence to back that up.