United Nations experts have called for Julian Assange to be freed from prison, saying they were “deeply concerned” about his well being and accusing the British government of breaching his human rights.
The U.N.’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said they were concerned by the “disproportionate sentence” given to Assange for violating the terms of his bail which they called a “minor violation.”
Assange was jailed for 50 weeks on Wednesday for breaking bail conditions imposed seven years earlier by seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
The Guardian reports: The group has twice previously called for Assange to be freed, after it judged his confinement to the Ecuadorian embassy by the threat of arrest should he leave amounted to arbitrary detention.
“The working group regrets that the government has not complied with its opinion and has now furthered the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Mr Assange,” it said in a statement on Friday.
“It is worth recalling that the detention and the subsequent bail of Mr Assange in the UK were connected to preliminary investigations initiated in 2010 by a prosecutor in Sweden. It is equally worth noting that that prosecutor did not press any charges against Mr Assange and that in 2017, after interviewing him in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, she discontinued investigations and brought an end to the case.
“The working group is further concerned that Mr Assange has been detained since 11 April 2019 in Belmarsh prison, a high-security prison, as if he were convicted for a serious criminal offence. This treatment appears to contravene the principles of necessity and proportionality envisaged by the human rights standards […]
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“It is worth recalling that the detention and the subsequent bail of Mr Assange in the UK were connected to preliminary investigations initiated in 2010 by a prosecutor in Sweden. It is equally worth noting that that prosecutor did not press any charges against Mr Assange and that in 2017, after interviewing him in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, she discontinued investigations and brought an end to the case.”
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They so do not want the public to know when they get caught doing some very bad things as what happened in Iraq shooting innocent civilians a if for sport . They will do almost everything in order that whisleblowers pay and pad an awful lot for having done .
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In my view, summitflyer, it all points to the extremely high level of corruption in the US government. I think it’s pretty obvious that the US is the most corrupt country in the world – and yet they keep accusing 3rd world countries like Pakistan of being corrupt.
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Could be worse. He could have to live in new jersey or detroit or the third ward in houston
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Mary, your comment is simultaneously ironic and profound.
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