7 December 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

MPs finally stand up for Gary McKinnon as extradition law reform motion voted through

originally by: Mail Online
published: 6th December 2011

The campaign to change Britain’s unfair extradition laws scored a stunning success at Westminster last night. A motion calling for ‘urgent reform’ to the US/UK treaty which is being used to try to wrestle Asperger’s sufferer Gary McKinnon to America was passed uncontested by MPs. No vote was called when it became clear the motion had overwhelming support after being backed by a string of heavyweight speakers from all parties.

It is a huge victory for those campaigners who urged Parliament to resist American pressure and ‘stand up for Britain’.

Tory MP Dominic Raab, who led the debate, said it was about defending ‘the price we place on the liberty of our citizens and the value we ascribe to that cornerstone of British justice – innocent until proven guilty.’

5 December 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Locking up children for life in the US

originally by: Amnesty International USA
published: 30th November 2011

While their peers are finding dates for prom, submitting college applications, and starting families, over 2,500 prisoners sit behind bars in the US without the possibility of parole.

What makes these prisoners unique is that they were all sentenced for crimes committed while they were children.

The US is the only country in the world that pursues life imprisonment without parole against children – and it does so regularly. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child expressly prohibits life imprisonment without the possibility of release committed by people under 18 years old.

All countries except the USA and Somalia have ratified the Convention.

22 October 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

We fight on, vows the 83-yr-old mother again denied justice

originally by: Islington Tribune
published: 21st October 2011

An 83-year-old mother was turned away from the Home Office on Tuesday after travelling from Wales to seek justice for the son who was murdered 25 years ago.

Isobel Hulsmann vowed that she would “not go away” as she seeks answers from the government as to why no one has been brought to justice over the death of her son, Daniel Morgan, in March 1987.

Her vigil came after Home Secretary Theresa May refused to hold a judicial inquiry into the police corruption that led to the failure to solve Britain’s longest-running murder case.