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27 June 2012
Issue: 7520 / Categories: Legal News
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Save Richard

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Wikipedia founder aims to prevent extradition to US of 24-year-old British student

Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has launched a campaign against the extradition of Richard O’Dwyer, a 24-year-old British student who faces up to 10 years in a US prison for creating a website,TVShack.net, which linked to places to watch TV and movies online.

Wales’ campaign calls on Home Secretary Theresa May to stop the extradition on the grounds that O’Dwyer is a UK citizen, living in the UK, his site was hosted in the UK and most of his users were not from the US. For more information, see www.change.org/SaveRichard.

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