The Westminster Magistrates Court in London has issued an extradition order. Then all that’s missing is the green light from the Home Secretary, the super hawk Priti Patel Julian Assange will be deported United States: then we will see a modern form of execution.
Because that’s what awaits the 50yearold Australian, who has been wanted by American courts since 2010 for the distribution of over 700,000 confidential documents on military and diplomatic activities that were carried out in Australia in particular Iraq and in Afghanistan. The extradition itself is a brutal act of the death sentence against him. Let’s not only think of his very serious health condition, physically tested by the long and painful escape, or the accusation of complicity in hacking the archives of the Pentagonbut to the law against espionage (the “Spy Act” of 1917), which the US authorities invoke: It carries a outrageous penalty of 175 years in prison whistleblower best known worldwide. A law never before invoked in modern American history for the dissemination of confidential or even top secret documents.
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After decades of being chased by US governments, the Australian journalist appears to have arrived final destination of his struggle, backed by a supportive but powerless section of Western public opinion. That Great Britain is under no obligation to transfer Assange, like any other person, to a place where his life or health would be in danger. The London government has adopted the stance of a bureaucratic executor of Washington. “The US has said that clearly will change the conditions of detention of Assange if they see fit. This admission risks harming Assange irreversible to his physical and mental wellbeing,” said Agnes Callamard, SecretaryGeneral of Amnesty International, which speaks of extradition as a form of extradition torture.
The brutality against him is a sign of the times: the protection of secrecy is strong for all those states that thrive on waging wars waged according to sophisticated and violent criteria repressive towards the population of the occupied territories. Since the first Gulf War, the rules have changed dramatically: embedded journalists are allowed beyond the lines because of what is done beyond it must not leakonly needs to be told in sweetened form (but many commentators have spotted that propaganda The war began only after the aggression against Ukraine).
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You will think of the brutality from afar War in Vietnam: true, but then the famous Daniel Ellsberg who revealed that Pentagon Papers (1967) and the filthiness of that invasion that made the American establishment tremble, he wasn’t even sentenced to a day in jail because of his freedom of information Superior the laws on the confidentiality of public documents. And Secretary of Defense McNamara’s diversionary tactics didn’t help. The Assange case is truly different and a testament to the brutality of the times.