50,000 Call to Free Pirate Bay Founder as Court Extends Custody

[silicon_toad2000]

http://torrentfreak.com/50000-call-to-free-pirate-bay-founder-as-court-extends-custody-140108/

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm appeared in court today and had his custody extended to February 5. Meanwhile, a petition to free the Pirate Bay founder, or at minimum improve his current conditions, swelled to more than 50,000 signatories. Svartholm is suspected of several hacking-related crimes in Denmark, where he is being kept in solitary and without free access to mail or his books.

[GhostShip]

Under human rights legislaton in europe for a unconvicted man to be held in solitary is definitely a breach of his rights , hes not been convicted and thus his curtailment of rights only extends to ensuring he faces trail, anything else is technically illegal.