McKinnon extradition to be put on ice
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The UK coalition Government has agreed to postpone hacker Gary McKinnon's next High Court hearing while it reconsiders its loose promise to do something about the man's plight. Both coalition parties, before their election into Government on 6 May, were vocal in support of McKinnon, who is fighting an order to be removed from his country and put before US prosecutors to face hacking charges. McKinnon's legal battle to be tried before a British court became uniquely...
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