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

The Australian federal politicians have explicitly called on the US to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, who remains in Belmarsh prison in the UK, warning of “a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia” if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited.

JoBo,

He should not be prosecuted for material published by Wikileaks.

He should stand trial for rape in Sweden.

That is all.

yildo,

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,

<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,

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

sin_free_for_00_days,

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,
@ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

reuters.com/…/us-britain-assange-sweden-idUSKBN1X…

“Sweden drops Assange rape investigation after nearly 10 years”

yildo,

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

MagicShel,

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,

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…

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • [email protected]
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • Socialism
  • KbinCafe
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • Ask_kbincafe
  • oklahoma
  • feritale
  • SuperSentai
  • KamenRider
  • All magazines