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Culture minister Matt Hancock and more than 100 fellow MPs have signed a letter calling on president Barack Obama to block Lauri Love’s extradition to the US to face trial over the alleged hacking of the country’s missile defence agency, the FBI, and America’s central bank.
It comes after Love—an Asperger’s syndrome sufferer from Stradishall, Suffolk—was told in September at a Westminster Magistrates’ Court hearing that he was fit to be extradited to the US to face trial in the country.
The 31-year-old, who according to his lawyers faces up to 99 years in prison in the US—if convicted—on hacking allegations as part of the Anonymous collective, has said that he fears for his life.
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Source: Ars Technica – British parliament members urge Obama to halt hacking suspect’s US extradition