extradited asperger sufferer, Talha Ahsan is free

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Good news, Syed Talha Ahsan is free.

Extradited Aspergers Sufferer, Talha Ahsan is free

Computer engineer Babar Ahmad was sentenced to 12.5 years and Syed Talha Ahsan, who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome in custody, to time served at eight years.

British campaigners bitterly opposed their extradition on the grounds that they were held so long without charge and arguing they should be tried at home.

Both sentences were lighter than demanded by prosecutors.

- Released shortly? -

Ahsan is now expected to be released and deported. Ahmad has already served a decade in custody and reports suggest he too could be freed in months.

Wasn't he convicted of something horrible back then?
Asperger's or not, shouldn't people be served justice no matter what?

He took a plead bargain in December 2013.

He had served over 6 years and 2 months in a UK jail, 21 months in a Supermax jail in solitary confinement.

The judge gave them ,lighter sentences.

In the USA, 97% of defendents plead guilty.

He pleaded guilty, to have a hope of coming home, if he did not plead guilty, he may have died.

Talha Ahsan


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Mr. Ahsan played a minor role in the operation of the website. He was one of
the website's "mailmen" for only six months, between March and August of 2001. That
was the beginning and the end of his involvement with the website. The website
offered books and videos for purchase. Some of the books ? like those written by
Abdullah Azzam ? were widely available in libraries and bookstores, including the library
of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Some of the videos provided a
perspective on the Second Chechen War that was not featured in mainstream media.
Those accessing the website could print out an order form and mail it to a Post Office
box. Mr. Ahsan's sole job was filling the orders. He was provided with a box of Azzam
Publications materials, envelopes, and postage, and provided instructions on how to
proceed: send the customers what they ordered and save an electronic copy of any
written correspondence sent to the mailbox.

The websites had multiple administrators. These individuals ? all of whom
resided in the United Kingdom ? had administrative access, and were actively involved
in adding and modifying content placed on the website. They also utilized an
administrative email address to communicate with various readers who sought
information or otherwise sought to communicate with the website. Mr. Ahsan was
never an administrator of the website. He never utilized the administrative email
address. None of the website administrators other than Mr. Ahmad ? though their
identities are known from the voluminous seized materials ? were indicted by U.S.
authorities or charged in any other court system.

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Tha above reason is why he was extradited.

This is unpleasant either we want special protection from the law, or we get no protection from social predators..

What separates Mr. Ahsan from the many known individuals with far greater
responsibility for the website, its contents, and its message is that he ? unlike any of
them ? received a letter sent to the Azzam Publications post office box by a man calling
himself "Hassan Abu-Jihad." Yet, when Mr. Ahsan?s conduct with respect to this letter
is examined with care, it becomes clear that the separation is not, in reality, significant.
The letter purported to describe the port of call schedule of a group of U.S. naval
ships sailing from the United States to the Persian Gulf. Importantly, the parties agree
on several facts about this letter. First, it was unsolicited. Fact Stipulation ¶ 26.
Second, Mr. Ahsan received it in the normal course of his limited duties as a mailman
for the website. Id. And third, after Mr. Ahsan typed up the document and saved that
file on a floppy disk, nothing was ever done with the electronic document. Id. It was
never, in any way, disseminated. Id. It is undisputed that Mr. Ahsan did not in any way
aid or encourage Hassan Abu-Jihaad to break the law and, moreover, that his actions
were neither intended to nor led to any harm whatsoever.
Mr. Abu-Jihaad was a United States citizen and naval officer who sent classified
materials motivated by what, at his trial, was revealed to be a desire to harm the
security of the nation he lived in and had a sworn duty to protect. Mr. Ahsan knew
nothing about Mr. Abu-Jihaad. He was the unwitting recipient of these unsolicited
materials, solely as a result of his voluntary work as a mailman. He had no reason to
believe that the letter he received ? scrawled and nearly illegible, fraught with
misspellings of basic English, and written by a man who declared himself the "father of
jihad" ? was to be taken in any way other than as the ramblings of a lunatic or a prank.
Mr. Abu-Jihaad is currently serving a ten year sentence for his actions. The
Government seeks to send Mr. Ahsan to prison for fifteen. Acceptance of this
government request would create the very kind of unwarranted sentencing disparity that
the Sentencing Reform Act seeks to eliminate.

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The difference between other volunteer and Talha Ahsan is the reason why he was extradited. It sounds like the behaviour of an aspergers sufferer. See the link below.

Talha Ahsan