There is one difference between American and Chinese prisons. To get into the former one usually has to do something antisocial (or hack into their computers). To get into the latter it's only necessary to try to escape from Tibet or complain about the massacre in Tiananmen Square.
   Getting back to the thread, the Mail on Saturday said that the courts had ruled that they didn't have the power to stop the extradition, but the Home Secretary did. The Home Secretary said that he couldn't change a decision made by the courts so he was going to do nothing.
   As I wrote in a letter to my M.P., surely if what he did was illegal in Britain, where he did what he did, that is where he should be prosecuted. Apparently it is and he could be.
   As stated above, one way in which Asperger's syndrome manifests itself is that the sufferer is inable to foresee the consequences of their actions. His intelligence would not necessarily stop him from doing something risky.
As for the often-cited timing of his actions, it's not as if it was at the time of something like Pearl Harbour or the Cuban missile crisis, when one might expect military computers to be vitally important. It was after the U.S. had been attacked by a couple of dozen people armed with penknives, and it would probably be the CIA or FBI who would know about their organisation.