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Title: Computer Pioneer, Subjected to Homophobic Prosecution, Pardoned by Queen Post by: HCK on January 01, 2014, 02:00:38 pm Computer Pioneer, Subjected to Homophobic Prosecution, Pardoned by Queen
Alan Turing, a British man whose code-breaking prowess helped thwart Nazi Germany in World War II, was pardoned this week by Queen Elizabeth for his decades-old "crime." Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for "gross indecency" for having a sexual relationship with another man, a ruling that resulted in the loss of his security clearance and compulsory hormone treatment. Two years later, he died from cyanide poisoning in what was ruled a suicide. Source: Computer Pioneer, Subjected to Homophobic Prosecution, Pardoned by Queen (http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/79700.html) |