Requests the Secretary-house Hacker
Lawyers Briton accused of hacking into secret military and NASA computers has asked Minister of the Interior, not to go to prison in the United States.
Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, 42, last month, lost his appeal against extradition, may face life in prison if access to 97 computers.
His lawyer Karen Todner said that their human rights would be violated if he is not back to the United Kingdom after the trial period.
The Ministry of Interior said that his case was. ”
Said: “Additional comments were received today, lawyers against Mr. McKinnon is extradited to the U.S..”
“The biggest attack”
Unemployed Mr McKinnon, Wood Green, north London, said that “desperate” after losing his appeal against extradition to the European Court of Human Rights.
He acknowledged, computer, but he said that information on UFOs and received only as a result of weak security and network solutions.
The U.S. government, but he insists on the vicious crime – the biggest military computer hack ever.
They say that the stolen passwords, deleted files and left 300 computers in the U.S. naval station unserviceable weapons immediately after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Mrs Todner said she asked the Ministry of the Interior, calling for intervention on behalf of their clients.
She said: “We have requested that the Interior Minister received assurances from the U.S. government that Mr. McKinnon returned to the United Kingdom immediately after receiving conviction in the U.S., if they are delivered.
“It is customary for both the Dutch and Israeli governments to make such assurances on behalf of its citizens, facing extradition to the United States.
“In light of Mr. McKinnon diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which seems quite fitting that the Minister of the Interior to receive such assurances.”
“Violence lots”
Mr. McKinnon was arrested in 2002, but never in the United Kingdom.
First, lost his appeal against extradition to the Supreme Court in 2006, before taking to the highest court in the United Kingdom House of Lords.
His lawyers want his case to be tried in Britain and believed that the alleged crimes were committed on British territory.
James Welch, legal director of human rights group Liberty, said: “Of course, the time has come to rethink, in the event that total U.S. prosecutors are threatening to” fry “non-violent computer hackers.
“It’s a shame that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights allows his extradition at the same time consider granting the U.S. fair.”
Demonstrations in support of Mr. McKinnon is happening outside the Interior Ministry on Tuesday.
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7592884.stm
