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

[Mark Kohut]

I learn it was the also-evil Mike Pompeo who had the CIA draw up the
plans....I'm glad this was
one evil act Trump did not sign off on....

To me it has little to do with Empire but everyone's mileage may differ.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 1:28 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> Since I haven't been following the Julian saga for a while, this is good
> stuff.....UN and
> on the sex charges...
>
> Thanks.
>
> I did feel uncomfortable just mentioning 'charges' when I did not really
> know what they were or read anything
> about them, so I apologize to Julian and hope for a fairer trial than
> seems likely.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 10:22 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
> huebschraeuber at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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