Julian Assange Is Enduring Unbearable Persecution for Exposing US War Crimes

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Press freedom advocates around the world have been mobilizing in defense of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo.

Moreover, Assange has suffered psychological torture while confined in the U.K. for more than a decade, according to Nils Melzer, United Nations special rapporteur on torture. In December 2021, MelzerOn June 10, more than 300 doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists calling themselves “Doctors for Assange”to Patel that Assange’s “deteriorating health” made it “medically and ethically unacceptable” to extradite him.

Yet U.K. officials disregarded Assange’s health and the injustice of his prosecution, insisting that the U.S. would treat him “appropriately.” In its June 17 statement ordering Assange’s extradition, the U.K. Home OfficeIn this case, the UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange.

The United States later came forward with qualified “assurances” that Assange wouldn’t be kept in solitary confinement and the U.K. High Court reversed Baraitser’s decision in January 2022. The U.K. Supreme Court affirmed the High Court’s dismissal of Assange’s appeal in March, paving the way for Patel’s decision ordering extradition.

 

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