Quote from: Ahoyhoy on October 20, 2012, 06:47 pmYeah good news, Credit to the British government for standing up to pressure from the US. It would have been scary to send a young vulnerable man to a country with such a poor human rights record.The British government deserves very little credit for this. They are NOT actually opposed to to Gary's extradition; rather, it is the prospect of Gary committing suicide in an American prison that gave them pause. Couldn't have that, after all, it would make the UK look bad. The UK government, not to mention the courts, have done nothing to prevent the forthcoming extradition to the U.S. of Richard O'Dwyer. O'Dwyer is notorious for running the site TVShack.com. The TVShack.com site itself did not host any copyright-infringing materials, it merely had links to where such materials could be located, and /downloaded. Mr. O'Dwyer consulted legal counsel in the UK; his counsel informed him that he was NOT breaking any UK laws. In normal circumstances, for an individual to be extradited for a particular act or acts, those acts must be illegal in BOTH countries. This has very conveniently been brushed aside by the British courts and also the British government, in a blatant attempt to appease the United States. (Such craven servility makes me want to vomit!) My understanding is that recent changes in British law will make any future efforts to block extradition impossible, as the power will be taken away from a Minister of the Crown, where it is now vested; instead the power to determine whether an extradition will proceed or not will be vested in some supposedly independent panel.