A UN special rapporteur says the charge sheet could be expanded if Assange is on US soil and the death penalty is ‘obviously a very serious concern’WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he was arrested in London, Britain, on April 11 2019. Picture: REUTERS/HANNA McKAYJulian Assange is not guaranteed a fair trial in the US, a UN rights expert told AFP on Friday, questioning the US justice system’s credibility in national security cases.
“I’m worried about fair trial,” said Melzer, one of several UN rapporteurs active on the Assange case. “I’m worried that he might be exposed to [the] detention practices of the US, which in part are very problematic. The UN expert argued that regardless of one’s personal view of Assange, “from a human rights perspective, he was basically doing the same thing that investigative journalists do all over the world”, by publishing information that states try to conceal.
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