The Injustice Handed Out To Julian Assange Must
End
By John Pilger
June 18, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" -
London - Julian Assange, founder and editor of
WikiLeaks, has now been a refugee in the Ecuadoream embassy in
London for three years. The key issue in his extraordinary
incarceration is justice. He has been charged with no crime. The
first Swedish prosecutor dismissed the misconduct allegations
regarding two women in Stockholm in 2010. The second Swedish
prosecutor's actions were and are demonstrably political. Until
recently, she refused to come to London to interview Assange.
Finally, when the British government almost pleaded with her to
come, she agreed. She has now cancelled her trip. It is a farce, but
one with grim consequences for Assange should he dare step outside
the Ecuadorean embassy.
The US criminal investigation against him and WikiLeaks -- for the
"crime" of exercising a right enshrined in the US constitution, to
tell unpalatable truths -- is "unprecedented in scale and nature",
according to US documents. For this, he faces much of a lifetime in
the hellhole of a US supermax should he leave the protection of
Ecuador in London. The Swedish allegations are no more than a
sideshow to this -- the SMS messages between the women involved,
read by lawyers, alone would exonerate him. They refer to the
accusations as "made up" by the police. In the police report one of
the women says she was "railroaded" by the Swedish police. What a
disgrace this is for Sweden's justice system.
Julian Assange is a refugee under international law and he should be
given right of passage by the British government out of the UK, to
Ecuador. The nonsense about him "jumping bail" is just that --
nonsense. If his extradition case went through the British courts
today, the European Arrest Warrant would be thrown out and he would
be a free man. So what is the British government trying to prove by
its absurd police cordon around an embassy whose refuge Assange has
no intention of giving up? Why don't they let him go? Why is a man
charged with no crime having to spend three years in one room,
without light, in the heart of London? The Assange case amplifies
many truths, and one is the accelerating, global totalitarianism of
Washington, regardless of who is elected president.
I am often asked if I think Assange has been "forgotten". It is my
experience that countless ordinary people all over the world,
especially in Australia, his homeland, understand perfectly well the
injustice being meted out to Julian Assange. They credit him and
WikiLeaks with having performed an epic public service by informing
millions about what the powerful plan for them behind their backs,
the lies governments and their vested interests tell, the violence
they initiate. Power that is corrupt loathes this, because it is
true democracy in action.See also -
Swedish Prosecutor Cancels Assange Interview
Last Minute : Swedish prosecutor
Marianne Ny cancelled her appointment to interview Julian Assange
Wednesday, in a move he characterized as “reckless.” Ny was due to
visit the embassy to take Assange’s statement, four-and-a-half years
after he was detained.
