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posted by martyb on Tuesday November 28 2017, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-just-want-to-make-sure-he-gets-a-fair-trial dept.

Lauri Love[*], in the UK, is facing extradition requests from three separate US court districts and a potential 99 year prison sentence for his alleged involvement in the online protests that followed the death of Aaron Swartz. Depsite no evidence offered by the US, the British courts have preliminarily agreed to extradition and his appeal will be on the 28th and 29th of November. Again, no evidence has been presented against him, but if he were tried in the UK he would be facing a maximum of 32 months in prison, not 99 years as the US is aiming for.

[*] According to Wikipedia's entry for Lauri Love:

Lauri Love is a Finnish-British activist charged extraterritorially with stealing data from United States Government computers including the US Army, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA via computer intrusion.

Previously: Lauri Love to be Extradited to the U.S.


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday November 28 2017, @11:10PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday November 28 2017, @11:10PM (#602736) Journal

    What?

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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday November 29 2017, @11:07AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 29 2017, @11:07AM (#602927) Journal

    He's a dual citizen of the UK and Finland, but neither country is standing up for him on those grounds or any other. So his defense team has been lately playing up the Asperger's syndrome to mean because of that he is too defective to be extradited. I can't see how that can be done without making life harder for those "on the spectrum". Anyway, if the US had a case against him it would have presented it and had at least a preliminary trial in the UK. However, once they have him physically they can force a plea "bargain" [theatlantic.com] and thus do away with him, regardless.

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