... jail if found guilty, and up to two years in custody while awaiting trial. The Home Secretary said it would not breach McKinnon's human rights to send ... appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The powerful Home Affairs Select Committee of MPs earlier this month came out against McKinnon's extradition. In a letter to home secretary Alan Johnson, committee chairman Keith Vaz ...

The 10th Home Secretary Level Talks between India and Bangladesh concluded with the signing of a Joint Statement by the two sides here today. Shri Gopal K. Pillai, Home Secretary, Government of India led the Indian Delegation while the Bangladesh delegation was led by Shri Abdus Sobhan Sikder, Home Secretary, Government of Bangladesh. The talks were

... in helping Maoists to access arms for the rebellious purpose. Home Secretary G K Pillai, on the sidelines of a ... 8230; suppliers of small arms. I am sure that the Maoists also get them.” The Home Secretary said the government has no information that the Maoists have any links with ... from Chinese arms smugglers or official agencies. Home Minister P Chidambaram had told  in an interview last ...

... be extradited the other way, the burden is lower. Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, has declared he is "powerless" to ... being extradited. Rubbish! As Keith Vaz, the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, notes, Johnson does ... power. If Johnson is unwilling to do his job, he should be reshuffled out of the Cabinet. He is definitely not "fit for the purpose" of being Home ...

On 30 October 2009 the Home Secretary sacked the Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Professor Nutt has expressed politically unpopular opinions such as - "Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth" and "Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked ...

... Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Chemist Simon Campbell, psychologist John Marsden and scientific consultant Ian Ragan stepped down following showdown talks with Home Secretary Alan Johnson (pictured) yesterday. The meeting was held amid the fall-out from the sacking of the Government's chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt over ...

The home secretary, Alan Johnston, today defended his decision to hand harmless mentally-ill UFO hunter Gary McKinnon over to the Americans without any form of extradition hearing, explaining that the Americans were very, very cross about being made to look rather stupid by some loner in his bedroom and anyway, there is no such thing as Asperger's Syndrome. "Look, I heard all ...

Anne McLaughlin has taken up the terrible case of Florence and Precious Mhango, but can’t seem to get thru to Alan Johnson, the British Home Secretary, still I hope one of his lackeys will see this: Dear Mr Johnson Florence and Precious (Tionge) Mhango I am sure you will be aware of the above named mother and daughter

... been nagging bilateral relations and the matter would be discussed during the meeting. The home secretary level meeting assumes significance ahead ... United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) general secretary Anup Chetia.” Following the “arrest or ... this month ’detained or arrested’ ULFA’s self-appointed finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika and self-styled foreign secretary ...

New Delhi: Breaking News! In a surprising outburst, Union Home Secretary GK Pillai slammed China, accusing the country of ... arms to the Maoists in India. Pillai said that India is aware that Maoists are getting small weapons from China, but their links with China may not go beyond that. The Home Secretary did not clarify whether the Maoists were getting arms from Chinese arms smugglers or official ...