"It serves no purpose, it is unjust:" 63 Australian politicians urge US to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walk free

JoBo , 9 months ago

He should not be prosecuted for material published by Wikileaks.

He should stand trial for rape in Sweden.

That is all.

yildo , 9 months ago

Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence. Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

He's so smart that he fled a country that doesn't extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)

0x815 OP , 9 months ago

<a href="">@yildo</a>

Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence.

Do you have any source for that?

Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

What do you want to say? Even if we assume that’s true (I don’t, but let’s ignore that for now), what does that mean? If someone never published something that puts X in bad light, are they all spies for X then?

teri , 9 months ago

It serves a purpose. But an evil one: stopping journalists from reporting on US war crimes

sin_free_for_00_days , 9 months ago

LOL, get fucked. Why does Australia care what happens to this rapist? I don’t get why they condone raping. I mean, I guess Australia doesn’t have any classified information that anyone would get in trouble for publishing, so it can’t be that. Right?

ndsvw , 9 months ago

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yildo , 9 months ago

Statute of limitations. Fleeing the country is a great trick if you can manage it. Roman Polanski had the same idea

MagicShel , 9 months ago

Rape is not why we have him, and is sort of irrelevant. If you dig into it, the original rape charge was a little dubious (or at least over-implied, but not a hill I’m gonna die on - I’m just saying there’s more there and look it up for yourself if you want the context for that comment), but the guy can get fucked for entirely different reasons.

teri , 9 months ago

The rape story was part of a mud campaign. It was made up and the world fell for it. What happens here is: A journalist publishes proofs of US war crimes. And the war criminals (US gov) come after him because of exactly that. Their message is clear: who ever reports on our crimes will be destroyed. This is a fight against press freedom and against the democratic freedom as we think to know it.

republik.ch/…/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder…

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Click here to see the summaryMore than 60 Australian federal politicians have explicitly called on the US to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, warning of “a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia” if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited. With a small cross-party delegation due to fly to Washington next week, the Guardian can reveal that the lobbying trip has won the open support of 63 members of Australia’s House of Representatives and Senate. In a letter, the 63 MPs and senators said they stood in support of the trip to the US and were “resolutely of the view that the prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange must end”. The Australian politicians noted “with gratitude the considerable support in the United States for an end to the legal pursuit of Mr Assange from members of Congress, human rights advocates, academics, and civil society, and from within the US media in defence of free speech and independent journalism”. “On that basis we ask Congresspeople, members of the press, and other relevant civil society stakeholders in the United States to speak up now in supporting an end to the prosecution and detention of Julian Assange,” they wrote. Alternatively, they said, “a decision to simply abandon the extradition proceedings would have the sensible, just, and compassionate effect of allowing Mr Assange to go free from a prolonged and harsh period of high-security detention”. — Saved 72% of original text.