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Alternatively - contact Richards mum Julia by e mail or text with your name, postcode and e mail address and she can enter your signature on your behalf Contact: julia.odwyer@btopenworld.com or TEXT 07770685114

PLEASE HELP SHEFFIELD HALLAM a Child Home to Die STUDENT IN THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE

Write/email your MP to ask for a debate on the extradition review in Parliament. Contact Julia if youre unsure of what to write or if you want more information. www.findyourmp.parliament.uk
TWEET use the hashtag #extradition and tweet your views as to the urgent need for reform. FOLLOW @jrodwyer @FrEXTRADITED @Janissharp LinkedIN Spread the word and e petition request to all your connections on LinkedIn THANK YOU: TOGETHER WE CAN FIGHT INJUSTICE

Richard ODwyer is in the 3rd year of his B.Sc. (Hons) Interactive Media with Animation course. He has been a Sheffield Hallam Student for the last 5 years having completed his Foundation Degree and 1 year of a Games Design Degree before changing to his current course which is more suited to his future ambitions. You may have seen in the media that the US Government is seeking Richards extradition on charges of copyright infringement relating to a website he made as a hobby which held links (like Google) to enable its users to view films documentaries and TV shows hosted elsewhere on the internet. The website itself held no infringing material. Extradition is itself an extra punishment meted out even before any opportunity for a trial. In Richards case extradition is totally disproportionate to the alleged offence. If Richard were to be found guilty in the UK, the maximum penalty would be 2 years in prison as opposed to 5 years in the US (per count). Richard has no previous criminal record and so in fact would be unlikely to receive a custodial sentence in the UK. Richard has not been charged with any offence in the UK. However his supporters are asking for a UK prosecution for Richard so that he can properly defend himself against charges and where, if proven guilty, he would be tried in accordance with the laws in this country where he lives and studies. The current extradition treaty between the UK and the US has been shown to be unbalanced in a number of ways but mainly due to the fact that US defendants get to challenge evidence in a US court before a decision on their extradition is made whereas UK defendants do not. In practice this means that the US can allege any number of misdemeanours however inaccurate, but a UK defendant has no opportunity to challenge them in a UK court before their extradition is ordered. This cannot be right. Perhaps worse, no UK court can give consideration to the appropriate place (forum) for a prosecution. So if the accused was in the UK at the time of the alleged crime, which was said to be committed in the UK, his extradition cannot be challenged on the basis that the appropriate trial forum is the UK and not the US. 2

Go to www.friends-extradited.org to find out more about the US/ UK extradition treaty and all about the victims of the current UK Extradition Act. Richard made this site for Bell Yard Communications to help highlight the current situation with UK to US extradition. Melanie Riley at Bell Yard (www.bell-yard.com ) has campaigned staunchly for a number of years against the UK Extradition Act 2003. As well as helping others such as Gary McKinnon, the NatWest3 and Babar Ahmad, has also helped Richard and his family from Day 1 of this extradition nightmare on a pro-bono basis.

How You Can Help:

Help Richard by signing his petition to request a UK Trial at:

www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-extradition-fair-uk-trial-for -richard-o-dwyer-html
Help Richard as well as all the other victims by asking the UK Government to Amend their Extradition legislation as they promised in their pre-election promises and as stated in their Programme for Government

www.epetitions.directgov.uk/petitions/7046
100,00 signatures needed to get a parliamentary debate
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