UK Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal in Assange extradition. The case now moves to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorize the extradition.

WikiLeaks editor and publisher Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing truthful information in the public interest.

Julian Assange is being sought by the current US administration for publishing US government documents which exposed war crimes and human rights abuses. The politically motivated charges represent an unprecedented attack on press freedom and the public’s right to know – seeking to criminalise basic journalistic activity.

If convicted Julian Assange faces a sentence of 175 years, likely to be spent in extreme isolation.

The UN working group on arbitrary detention issued a statement saying that “the right of Mr. Assange to personal liberty should be restored”.

Massimo Moratti of Amnesty International has publicly stated on their website that, “Were Julian Assange to be extradited or subjected to any other transfer to the USA, Britain would be in breach of its obligations under international law.

Human Rights Watch published an article saying, “The only thing standing between an Assange prosecution and a major threat to global media freedom is Britain. It is urgent that it defend the principles at risk.”

The NUJ has stated that the “US charges against Assange pose a huge threat, one that could criminalise the critical work of investigative journalists & their ability to protect their sources”.

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    Western hegemonic dictatorship has:

    • laws like Hague Invasion Act
    • victims like Assange, Snowden, Hale, Manning, Winner and countless others
    • war crimes on half the earth
    • hundreds of trillions of dollars looted via colonisation and economic imperialism
    • genocides in dozens of countries
    • foreign interventions in half the countries on earth
    • poverty and systematic discrimination
    • Big Tech that is somehow private yet is publicly traded, and not accountable for free speech, and is controlled by Western governments

    Who is protecting Snowden from assassination right now? Or for that matter various victims of Western imperialism?

    • @Julianus@lemmy.ml
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      02 years ago

      The eastern autocratic dictatorship that is guilty of all your points as well? Is that who you mean?

      • Muad'Dibber
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        02 years ago

        Tell us more, o wise orientalist, of the crimes of the barbaric asiatic hordes.

        • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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          02 years ago

          They live on one drug - copium. Soon the supplies will dry out. What they have started feeling right now, they will feel every bit of pain from the rockbottom falls, as the effect of the drug ceases, just like capitalism.