AT THE risk of outraging those of your regular correspondents who most fanatically support US domination of our political institutions, the following information may encourage others to write to the Home Secretary and their MPs demanding an end to the humiliation to the UK of the 2003 Extradition Act and the release of all prisoners now held under it.

Perhaps the most degrading and shameful extradition demand is of Babar Ahmad, a 37-year-old British Muslim detained as part of the ridiculously misnamed “war on terror”.

In December 2003, Babar was arrested at his London home; by the time he reached the police station he had sustained 73 forensically recorded injuries, including bleeding in his ears and urine. Six days later he was released without charge.

In August 2004, the US decreed that Babar must be re-arrested, alleging that in the 1990s he was “a supporter of terrorism”. Always obsequious and compliant, the Home Office has now kept him in prison for seven years without charge, highlighting the fact that the much vaunted “special relationship” demands one party remaining forever on its knees.

R Westmoreland, The Oval, Pocklington.