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December 7, 2011 07:02 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FtIVy5h4Gb0/petition-to-get-a-pardon-for-t.html
Petition to get a pardon for Turing's "gross indecency" conviction
The UK government has officially apologised to computing giant and war hero Alan Turing for forcing him to take hormone injections as "therapy" for being gay (driving him to suicide), but now a petition has been mounted to get an official pardon Turing's 1952 for "gross indecency." We ask the HM Government to grant a [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FtIVy5h4Gb0/petition-to-get-a-pardon-for-t.html
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