They've Left My Son to Rot ; Amid Allegations of Police Brutality and Concocted Evidence, This British Student Is Languishing in a Greek Prison Accused of a Crime He Insists He Didn't Commit. So Why Did Our Government, in an Echo of the Gary Mckinnon Case, Allow Him to Be Extradited Without a Whimper of Protest? [Scot Region]

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AT SOME time in the early hours of this morning Andrew Symeou will have been woken, as he is every day, by the intense heat which parches Greece in August. There is no escape from the conditions; no air conditioning to ease his discomfort. Only the barest hint of a breeze through the bars on the glassless window.

For a few seconds, if he is lucky, the fug of sleep will give his troubled mind a break from ceaseless worry, before the devastating reality dawns: he is in jail.

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They've Left My Son to Rot ; Amid Allegations of Police Brutality and Concocted Evidence, This British Student Is Languishing in a Greek Prison Accused of a Crime He Insists He Didn't Commit. So Why Did Our Government, in an Echo of the Gary Mckinnon Case, Allow Him to Be Extradited Without a Whimper of Protest? [Scot Region]

It is a barely believable predicament for a young man of impeccable character who has never been in trouble before in his life; and one which raises disturbing questions about the manner in which our Government is prepared to throw its citizens to the mercy of foreign courts.

For amid the outpouring of public disgust at the treatment of Gary McKinnon, the Glasgow-born autistic computer hacker facing extradition to the U.S., another quiet outrage has slipped under the radar.

Two weeks ago, Andrew, a 20-yearold university student described by his former headmaster as 'polite, friendly, conscientious and cheerful', was...

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