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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @09:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @09:12AM (#602894)

    For example, sometimes they'll require that the government agree to not seek or use the death penalty in cases of murder in order to get the suspect extradited.

    Sometimes? Every time, it's a workaround for the laws against extraditing people to countries with the death penalty. If we were not to require this, or if the US government was to disregard such an agreement, the extradition itself would be against the law, and the people allowing it could be punished even though they did not know the US would disregard the agreement (because the agreement does not technically make the US a country without the death penalty, we only pretend it does).