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6th February 2016, 12:12 PM
UN rules Assange should go free and be awarded CompensationShare This
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nsnbc : A UN panel ruled on Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be free to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, UK, and be awarded compensation for three-and-a-half years of detention. The ruling is non-binding. http://nsnbc.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Julian-Assange_UK_archives-300x170.jpg (http://nsnbc.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Julian-Assange_UK_archives.jpg)The UK and Sweden denied that the Australian citizen was deprived of freedom, as claimed by the UN panel. Assange went from Sweden to the UK after Swedish prosecutors wanted to investigate and eventually try Assange for alleged rape. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian Embassy since June 2010. He denies accusations that he has had sex with one of his sex partners in Sweden without a condom, against the will of the sex partner.Assange and his defense team has repeatedly claimed his innocence and stressed the risk that Sweden or the UK would extradite him to the United States. Seong-Phil Hong, from the UN’s panel stated that:
“The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considers that the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which Julian Assange has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention”. Swedish authorities rejected that they have any plans to extradite the 44-year-old Julian Assange to the USA. Before the ruling, Assange made a brief statement on Twitter, saying:
“Should I prevail and the state parties be found to have acted unlawfully, I expect the immediate return of my passport and the termination of further attempts to arrest me.”Assange said that if he lost his appeal, then he would leave the embassy in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the Knightsbridge area of London, though Britain said he would be arrested and extradited to Sweden as soon as he stepped outside. Swedish prosecutors commented that the UN panel’s ruling had no formal impact on the rape investigation under Swedish law and that the ruling was non-binding.A U.S. Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and Julian Assange is ongoing. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said it was unclear what impact “a pronouncement from the United Nations would have on the situation. … But, you know, but he’s facing serious charges inside of Sweden”.Julian Assange claims that he has been deprived of fundamental liberties including access to sunlight and fresh air, adequate medical facilities and legal procedural security.Assange made global headlines and powerful enemies in the United States when WikiLeaks published classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff. Later that year, the group released over 90,000 secret documents detailing the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, followed by almost 400,000 internal U.S. military reports on operations in Iraq. One of the latest batches of documents released by WikiLeaks disclose details about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).F/AK – nsnbc 05.02.2016Share:http://nsnbc.me/2016/02/05/un-rules-assange-should-go-free-and-be-awarded-compensation/
London (http://nsnbc.me/tag/london/)UK (http://nsnbc.me/tag/uk/)
nsnbc : A UN panel ruled on Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be free to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, UK, and be awarded compensation for three-and-a-half years of detention. The ruling is non-binding. http://nsnbc.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Julian-Assange_UK_archives-300x170.jpg (http://nsnbc.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Julian-Assange_UK_archives.jpg)The UK and Sweden denied that the Australian citizen was deprived of freedom, as claimed by the UN panel. Assange went from Sweden to the UK after Swedish prosecutors wanted to investigate and eventually try Assange for alleged rape. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian Embassy since June 2010. He denies accusations that he has had sex with one of his sex partners in Sweden without a condom, against the will of the sex partner.Assange and his defense team has repeatedly claimed his innocence and stressed the risk that Sweden or the UK would extradite him to the United States. Seong-Phil Hong, from the UN’s panel stated that:
“The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considers that the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which Julian Assange has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention”. Swedish authorities rejected that they have any plans to extradite the 44-year-old Julian Assange to the USA. Before the ruling, Assange made a brief statement on Twitter, saying:
“Should I prevail and the state parties be found to have acted unlawfully, I expect the immediate return of my passport and the termination of further attempts to arrest me.”Assange said that if he lost his appeal, then he would leave the embassy in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the Knightsbridge area of London, though Britain said he would be arrested and extradited to Sweden as soon as he stepped outside. Swedish prosecutors commented that the UN panel’s ruling had no formal impact on the rape investigation under Swedish law and that the ruling was non-binding.A U.S. Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and Julian Assange is ongoing. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said it was unclear what impact “a pronouncement from the United Nations would have on the situation. … But, you know, but he’s facing serious charges inside of Sweden”.Julian Assange claims that he has been deprived of fundamental liberties including access to sunlight and fresh air, adequate medical facilities and legal procedural security.Assange made global headlines and powerful enemies in the United States when WikiLeaks published classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff. Later that year, the group released over 90,000 secret documents detailing the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, followed by almost 400,000 internal U.S. military reports on operations in Iraq. One of the latest batches of documents released by WikiLeaks disclose details about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).F/AK – nsnbc 05.02.2016Share:http://nsnbc.me/2016/02/05/un-rules-assange-should-go-free-and-be-awarded-compensation/