Citing a risk of suicide UK's Home Secretary withdrew extradition order against NASA hacker Gary McKinnon who suffers from depression and has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome

Gary McKinnon, a hacker from Scotland diagnosed with Asperger syndrome will not be extradited from the UK to the US to face charges for computer hacking involving US military and NASA computers.  Following a decade-long battle over his extradition, the UK's Home Secretary Theresa May withdrew the extradition order against Gary McKinnon pointing out that extradition would put him at great risk of suicide thereby unacceptably compromising his human rights.  Read more about it at csmonitor.com here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/1016/Britain-nixes-extradition-of-NASA-hacker-Gary-McKinnon-to-US