Hi Jane
Thanks for this info.
I got my Phd in 2000, I might just squeeze into this category.
Would like to go to the information days for the grant.
Regards
Nirmal
On Wed, August 1, 2012 10:51 am, Nisha Kapoor wrote:
> * Apologies for cross-posting
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> On behalf of the Babar Ahmad campaign team, I am writing to ask if you
> will support our letter (see below) to the Director of Public Prosecutions
> regarding the case of Babar Ahmad. On 6th August 2012 Babar will have
> been detained in British high security prison for eight years without
> trial awaiting extradition to the US. We are asking the DPP to put Babar
> on trial immediately in the UK and put an end to the injustice he has
> suffered. We hope to publish the letter in the national press on Monday
> 6th
> August with as many signatories as possible.
>
>
>
> Since his arrest, the Crown Prosecution Service have held that there is
> 'insufficient evidence' to prosecute Babar in the UK, but in November 2011
> it transpired that British authorities had sent the bulk of the evidence
> seized from Babar's home directly to the US without examining it first.
> If
> Babar is extradited he faces up to 70 years in solitary confinement in a
> US
> supermax prison.
>
>
> Babar Ahmad's case testifies to the continuing racial injustice carried
> out by British state. If you are able to, we would really appreciate your
> support. Please respond to me with your full name, 'official title' and
> organisation.
>
>
> For more information on Babar's case see http://www.freebabarahmad.com/
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Nisha Kapoor, on behalf of the Free Babar Ahmad campaign team
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Starmer
>
>
> Re: Prosecution of Babar Ahmad
>
>
>
> Today, on the 8th anniversary of Babar Ahmad’s detention without trial in
> the UK, we write to request that you order the Crown Prosecution Service
> to put him on trial immediately in this country.
>
>
> Babar Ahmad is a British citizen accused of crimes allegedly committed in
> the UK. Given the evidence against him was gathered in Britain, it
> seems only right that he should be tried in a British court of law.
> Indeed, in
> 2005, District Judge Timothy Workman, then the most senior extradition
> judge in the UK, said about Mr. Ahmad's case. "This is a difficult and
> troubling case. The defendant is a British Citizen who is alleged to have
> committed offences which if the evidence were available, could have been
> prosecuted in this country." Instead, he has been detained without trial
> for 8 years awaiting extradition to the US.
>
>
> For over 7 years the CPS insisted that there was “insufficient evidence”
> to charge Mr. Ahmad with any offence, only to admit in November 2011 that
> it had never reviewed all of the evidence seized from Mr. Ahmad’s house
> before it was sent by British police to their US counterparts. In light
> of the fact that we now know that the evidence should have been available,
> we ask that this situation is rectified immediately by placing Mr Ahmad on
> trial in a British court of law. This is the only just resolution of this
> matter and one which will salvage the integrity of our criminal justice
> system.
>
>
> Signed
>
>
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Goldsmiths, London University.
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