UK Government: Don’t extradite Julian Assange!
JVL Introduction
Julian Assange is at the final stage of appeal against extradition: In the various related articles below you can read more about the circumstances of his alleged “crime” and the cruelty with which he has been treated. This statement by Amnesty sums up the threat to Assange and to media freedom everyone. Meanwhile the UN Special Rapporteur on torture urges UK government to halt Assange’s imminent extradition and she says: “Julian Assange suffers from a long standing and recurrent depressive disorder. He is assessed as being at risk of committing suicide. In the United States, he faces numerous charges, including under the Espionage Act of 1917 for alleged unlawful releases of diplomatic and other cables and documents via WikiLeaks. If extradited, he could be detained in prolonged isolation while awaiting trial, or as an inmate. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 175 years in prison….The risk of being placed in prolonged solitary confinement, despite his precarious mental health status, and to receive a potentially disproportionate sentence raises questions as to whether Mr. Assange’s extradition to the United States would be compatible with the United Kingdom’s international human rights obligations, particularly under article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as respective articles 3 of the UN Convention against Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights.” (our emph)
Please get to the Court if you can.
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This article was originally published by Amnesty International on Tue 13 Feb 2024. Read the original here.
UK/USA: Global media freedom at risk as Julian Assange back in UK court facing possible extradition to USA
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We’ll hear a lot about the sad case of Aleksei Navalny in coming days. But I wonder how many of those decrying his fate will draw any parallels with the fate of Julian Assange.
It does appear that the public generally are either not aware of Julian Assange’s situation or are unclear about how serious this is, and not just for him but for us all.
He hasn’t been charged with anything yet he has been in Belmarsh High Security Prison for 5 christmases.
He was given the all information by Chelsea Manning which showed the war crimes committed by the US and Snowden who exposed the surveillance on us all. Wikileaks then put this info out for us all to see, otherwise it would still be hidden. He’s a political prisoner and the U.K. is doing the US’ bidding here.
The trial was a travesty of justice. Outrageous what went on in our so called Courts of Justice! Don’t let our government nor the US get away with this. We are doomed if we don’t fight back before it’s too late.
You can apply to listen to the court case on line and you’ll experience the outrageous way the court behaves.
Total hypocrisy to shout about how others treat their political prisoners whilst Assange rots in an English prison!
The extradition of James Earl Ray for the assassination of Martin Luther King does not bode well for this extradition either.
Ray was framed and denied a trial. When he appealed for a trial, the request was considered by Judge Preston Battle who very conveniently died of a heart attack before he could give his ruling.
Several years later, Judge Joe Brown got taken off the appeal case for stating that Ray’s rifle was not the murder weapon and that Ray was not the assassin.