Good.
Care to elaborate?
There's many ways this could be a "good" thing: exposing the farce of international law when the US government and military claim global jurisdiction over a man who never set foot there seems just one of them.
Julian Assange arrested in London
31–40 of 1001 posts
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#32Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#33> Ecuadorian embassy withdrew his asylum and UK police were invited in to arrest him. According to a journalist at Sky news https://twitter.com/NewsTMac/status/1116274082922803200
no doubt he will be extradited to the US. This has been the game plan all along. Free press my ass. The UK and US are fucking banana republics. The problem is that thanks to them controlling the biggest propaganda machine which has ever existed, their stinky ideas constantly rub off on other Western countries. Anyone from the US still pointing the finger at China or Russia for being non democratic, not free, backward…
He jumped bail while accused of a serious crime. Not sure what you are looking for here.
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#34> URGENT: Ecuador has illegally terminated Assange political asylum in violation of international law. He was arrested by the British police inside the Ecuadorian embassy minutes ago. Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1116273826621480960 Holy moly, this will be interesting! EDIT: If you're interested, here's a video of him being escorted out of the embassy -- https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/111628109…
Of course Ecuador can revoke asylum. It's very common practice around the world if a person's circumstances change and their original country is now safe. Likewise if Ecuador believes that there is no longer a threat to Assange they can revoke it.
> Likewise if Ecuador believes that there is no threat to Assange that can revoke it.
Thats a stretch considering they invited the police to arrest him.
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#35About time. It will be good see his case brought before the courts whatever they will be in the US, UK, Sweden ... staying in the embassy for so many years is just absurd.
And what case would that be? The case in Sweden was dropped for example.
The immediate one is breaking bail conditions.
Possibly extradition to the US over Wikileaks stuff, but no pubic application for that yet. But if he could be extradited from the UK to the US over Wikileaks, why would the US do the convoluted "extradite him to Sweden then on to the US from there" scheme that he claims was in progress? (ducks)
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#36About time. It will be good see his case brought before the courts whatever they will be in the US, UK, Sweden ... staying in the embassy for so many years is just absurd.
And what case would that be? The case in Sweden was dropped for example.
It can be re oppened
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2017/...
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#37This mean that the single most expensive police case in the history of UK will have an end. It will be interesting to see the final price tag in respect to the final verdict.
Which is strange as the UK had little skin in the game to begin with
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#38Julian Assange used to be hailed as a hero for exposing American hypocrisy, but with the secretive way wikileaks operated and the track record of anti-US releases, perhaps it was only a matter of time before Assange and wikileaks were used as pawns for geopolitics. Still, I'm curious when did Assange willingly start working for Russia --- was it from the very beginning, or was it after his legal troubles?
I wonder what Snowden thinks of the whole situation, as Assange did help him get to Russia. Has Snowden been actively involved in US politics (the way Assange and wikileaks substantially affected the last US presidential election)?
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-refoulement
> to a country in which they would be in likely danger of persecution based on "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion" Which, precisely, of these categories do you think he fits under here?
> > membership of a particular social group or political opinion
Re: Julian Assange arrested in London
#40I think Wikileaks affiliated/sponsored from Russia 'cause Assange rejected documents about russian corruption: https://www.businessinsider.com/assange-turned-down-document...
Anyway, "democracy dies in darkness", so every dirty shit must be highlighted sooner or later.