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

[Mark Kohut]

Here's one reason to post and learn on the Plst beyond Pynchon.

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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