NP: I won't even go into espionage charges except to say I believe in the rule of international law

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture:

"Julian Assange has been intentionally psychologically tortured by
Sweden, Britain, Ecuador and the U.S. First through the highly arbitrary
handling of proceedings against him. The way Sweden pursued the case,
with active assistance from Britain, was aimed at putting him under
pressure and trapping him in the embassy. Sweden was never interested in
finding the truth and helping these women, but in pushing Assange into a
corner. It has been an abuse of judicial processes aimed at pushing a
person into a position where he is unable to defend himself. On top of
that come the surveillance measures, the insults, the indignities and
the attacks by politicians from these countries, up to and including
death threats. This constant abuse of state power has triggered serious
stress and anxiety in Assange and has resulted in measurable cognitive
and neurological harm. I visited Assange in his cell in London in May
2019 together with two experienced, widely respected doctors who are
specialized in the forensic and psychological examination of torture
victims. The diagnosis arrived at by the two doctors was clear: Julian
Assange displays the typical symptoms of psychological torture. If he
doesn’t receive protection soon, a rapid deterioration of his health is
likely, and death could be one outcome."

Wrt the "sex allegations":

"Allow me to start at the beginning. I speak fluent Swedish and was thus
able to read all of the original documents. I could hardly believe my
eyes: According to the testimony of the woman in question, a rape had
never even taken place at all. And not only that: The woman’s testimony
was later changed by the Stockholm police without her involvement in
order to somehow make it sound like a possible rape. I have all the
documents in my possession, the emails, the text messages."

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

Of course, we now also know that the CIA wanted to assassinate him.

It doesn't matter to the Empire's apologists. They love to talk about
Julian Assange's possible character flaws, not about US war crimes or
the CIA.


Am 12.12.2021 um 11:56 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> But there are the sex allegations, many, and the fact that even a fully
> sympathetic country like Ecuador withdrew their support.
> He is either one of the most difficult courageous dudes in history or else
> mostly a self-serving asshole who criminally hurts
> women and sovereign democratic countries.
>
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/4254520/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-suffers-stroke-jail/
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