Abida: She Who Believes

Please sign this petition calling for justice for our brother Babar Ahmad and reblog this post encouraging others to do the same: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/885

Note: Only UK citizens can sign petition. But please, please, circulate it to raise awareness

WHO IS BABAR AHMAD?

Babar Ahmad is a British citizen who has been incarcerated in a maximum security prison in the UK for over seven years … without trial. He has no previous criminal record and has never been tried for the allegations made against him. The British government intends to extradite him to the US for crimes he is alleged to have committed in the UK in the 1990s. Under the Extradition Treaty signed between the UK and US, a suspect cannot challenge the evidence against him. The fallacy of this Treaty lies in the fact that the same evidence which the British authorities deemed insufficient to charge Babar with a single offence in the UK, now forms the basis of his extradition and prosecution in the US. So contrary to the rule of law and basic duty of fairness is this Treaty that in June this year, the Houses of Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights urged the British government to change the law so that Babar’s perpetual threat of extradition was ended without further delay. Babar is the longest detained-without-trial British citizen in the modern history of the UK. He has repeatedly requested that he be tried in a British court before a jury of his peers. He is willing to face up to any allegation against him. His family have launched an e-petition on the government website calling for him to be tried in the UK. If 100,000 signatures are obtained before 10 November 2011, the issue will become eligible for parliamentary debate.