Today, on the eighth anniversary of Babar Ahmad’s detention without trial in the UK (Comment is autonomous of charge, 6 April), we inscribe to demand that the Crown Prosecution Supply place him on trial immediately in this nation.Babar Ahmad is a British citizen accused of crimes allegedly committed in the UK. Given that the evidence against him was gathered in Britain, it seems only fair that he should be tried in a British court of code. Indeed, in 2005, district judge Timothy Workman, then the most senior extradition judge in the UK, said of Mr Ahmad’s condition: “This is a dense and troubling condition. The defendant is a British citizen who is alleged to have committed offences which, if the evidence were available, could have been prosecuted in this nation.” Instead, he has been detained without trial for eight years awaiting extradition to the US.For more than seven years the CPS insisted there was insufficient evidence to charge Mr Ahmad, only to admit in November 2011 that it had never reviewed all the evidence seized from his house before it was sent by British police to their US counterparts. In blaze of the circumstance that we immediately know that the evidence should have been available, we inquiry that this situation is rectified at once by placing Mr Ahmad on trial in a British court. This is the only just resolution of the affair, and one that will salvage the integrity of our criminal justice system.Emeritus Professor Stuart Hall Open UniversityProfessor Noam Chomsky Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyProfessor David Theo Goldberg University of California IrvineProfessor Paul Gilroy London College of Economics and Political ScienceProfessor John Hutnyk Goldsmiths College, University of LondonProfessor Neil Lazarus University of WarwickProfessor David Miller University of BathEmeritus Professor Robert Moore University of LiverpoolProfessor Jenny Nelson Imperial College LondonProfessor Ludi Simpson University of ManchesterProfessor M Shahid Ebrahim University of BangorDr Vron Ware Open UniversityDr Anandi Ramamurthy University of Central LancashireDr Arun Kundnani London Metropolitan UniversityDr Tariq Mehmood American University of BeirutDr Gholam Khiabany University of SussexDr Virinder Kalra University of ManchesterDr Nisha Kapoor Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDr Nicholas De Genova Goldsmiths College, University of LondonDr Katy Pal Sian University of LeedsDr Paul Kelemen University of ManchesterDr Christian KlesseDr Kathleen Cavanaugh National University of IrelandDr Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor University of LeicesterDr Sanjay Sharma Brunel UniversityDr Fozia Bora Cambridge Muslim CollegeDr Abul Hassan Markfield Institute of Higher EducationDr Mustapha Sheikh University of LeedsDr Jasmine Gani London College of EconomicsDr Mahbub Gani King’s College LondonDr Shamim Miah University of HuddersfieldWaqas Tufail University of SalfordExtraditionTerrorism policyNoam Chomskyguardian.co.uk © 2012 Twitter News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Employ of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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