WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange He should be extradited to the United States, according to a British Court of AppealContrary to what another British judge came to him in January.
Assange’s supporters are responding forcefully to Friday’s decision:
Julian is once again in mortal danger, and journalists have the right to publish material that governments and companies find disturbing, writes Kristen Hrafnsson, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks. Twitter.
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The United States issued a comprehensive indictment against Assange after WikiLeaks published in 2010 500,000 classified documents that sparked intense criticism of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since 2019, he has been imprisoned in the maximum security Belmarsh prison outside London while awaiting the British judiciary to process the US extradition request.
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Before that, he spent nearly seven years in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, fearing that the British authorities would extradite him to Sweden and then to the United States.
Moxnes comes with a clear call for Støre to stand against US persecution of WikiLeaks and Assange.
It is quite a shame that Stor today praises the brave press in Russia and the Philippines, while tacitly agreeing that our closest allies are killing Julian Assange. Then the hypocrisy is so great that it affects the Richter scale, says the red leader Björnard Moxness to Nettavizen.
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Assange is being persecuted for exposing Western war crimes and torture. But instead of punishing war criminals and torturers, Norway’s closest ally will send him to the United States, where it has just been revealed that the CIA was planning to kill him and sentence him to 175 years in prison, Moxness continues.
He concludes that the stench of hypocrisy of the elite who applauded for human rights and freedom of expression during the Nobel ceremony at the same time they contributed to sending Assange to the United States to die in prison, is to become physically ill. .