{"id":918,"date":"2005-11-16T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/16\/113214946351582476\/"},"modified":"2005-11-16T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T13:47:00","slug":"113214946351582476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/113214946351582476\/","title":{"rendered":"113214946351582476"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>A prime example of how locking people up without putting them on trial can lead to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebabarahmad.com\/\">resentment, anger and alienation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Arrested December 2003 and released without charge after six days, then re-arrested in August 2004 by request of the United States and held ever since without facing trial, today dear old Charles Clarke has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4441448.stm\">allow Babar Ahmad&#8217;s extradition<\/a> even though a) British police failed to find enough evidence to bring him to trial, b) he may face the death penalty, and c) <a href=\"http:\/\/edmi.parliament.uk\/EDMi\/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=28440&amp;SESSION=875\">the US still refuses to agree to do the same for us<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/news\/2003\/jul\/25ukus.htm\">Hurrah<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Please note also a <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/terrorism\/story\/0,15935,1643739,00.html\">reminder<\/a> that the &#8220;90 days&#8221; thing was not, despite claims, going to be enough for our lords and masters, no matter all the bullshit about not planning to bang people up longer down the line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr Clarke had an initial 60 days in which to approve or reject the judge&#8217;s decision, and was twice given two-month extensions because of the &#8220;complex representations made about the case&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Six months &#8211; twice the 90 days the government claimed was &#8220;all&#8221; they needed, and Charlie STILL didn&#8217;t have enough evidence to come to a decision&#8230; Admittedly he&#8217;s not the brightest of sparks, but nonetheless&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prime example of how locking people up without putting them on trial can lead to resentment, anger and alienation: Arrested December 2003 and released without charge after six days, then re-arrested in August 2004 by request of the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/113214946351582476\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}