Adolfo Pérez Esquivel warned that the British judiciary’s extradition order was tantamount to a death sentence
The United States, England and Sweden want to sentence Julian Assange to life for exposing North America’s forced and illegal diplomacy, Pérez Esquivel reiterated. (Photo: web)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel on April 21 called for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and warned that the UK judiciary’s extradition order would amount to a death sentence.
Allowing Julian’s extradition poses a threat to press freedom and a grave warning to those who question the United States’ repressive policies and human rights abuses, the Argentine intellectual said in a letter published here by an organization concerned US supporters bring together Australian journalist.
The day before, a judge at Westminster Magistrates Court authorized Assange’s handover to US authorities who want to try him for publishing classified files on WikiLeaks detailing his military’s war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and other compromising documents were published to American Diplomacy.
However, the judge left the final decision on the fate of the cyber activist, who has been locked up in a London jail since April 2019, to British Home Secretary Priti Patel, who revoked the asylum granted seven years ago and handed it over to British police.
In the letter released by the campaign against Assange’s extradition, Pérez Esquivel asserts that the 50-year-old Australian journalist is a victim of repressive US policies to defend press freedom. We call on the freedom-fighting media and journalists to demand the release of Julian Assange, who, with civil courage, published documents proving human rights abuses committed by the United States, stressed the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize winner Peace.
If handed over to US prosecutors, the WikiLeaks founder could face 175 years in prison on 17 charges against him.
