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UN warns that Julian Assange would face serious violations of human rights in the US

Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 23:59 UTC
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For the United Nations (UN), the United Kingdom arrested “arbitrarily” WikiLeaks’s co-founder, Julian Assange, on Thursday and warned that by allowing his arrest, Ecuador has put the Australian journalist at risk of being extradited to the United States, “Exposing him to the risk of serious violations of human rights.” Read full article

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  • bushpilot

    Boy, is that UN useless.
    Assange was at that embassy for how many years?
    They had to expel him sooner or later.
    That special UN department probably had this statement ready to go 5 years ago, and would have said the same thing 15 years from now.
    Potential human rights violations? Did Bradley Manning have his rights violated?
    Now, if Assange doesn't get the kind of toilet paper he likes, this special UN agency is going to cry bloody murder.

    Apr 11th, 2019 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Papa

    Hahahahah I love this. But remember that transexual Manning was humiliated by the US and this agency didn't say something.
    I don't know if Assange's work was ethic, but this is a result of his ridiculous ego. He deserves this.

    Apr 12th, 2019 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Don Alberto

    Asange exposed war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the US, so of course he “deserves this”. Exposing US war crimes is a crime in the US.

    Apr 13th, 2019 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    What's really hilarious is that more people are worried about his cat than Asange himself...

    Apr 13th, 2019 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DemonTree

    Is no one going to mention the really important issue? Assange's horrible hobo beard; he's not gonna get much sympathy from the courts looking like that.

    Apr 13th, 2019 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Papa

    Who cares? He is in Englishland anyway

    Apr 14th, 2019 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • bushpilot

    Why would Assange sport a silver beard like that?

    Is he going for the “ancient revered wizard” look?

    Apr 14th, 2019 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    “JULIAN Assange was kicked out of the Ecuador embassy for allegedly sharing a photo of the president eating a lobster.”

    Besides looking like a lunatic, he was accused of some very terrible hygiene...

    “The WikiLeaks founder is accused of leaking an embarrassing snap of Ecuadorian premier Lenin Moreno dining on a platter of lobster in bed in a luxury hotel room.”

    I lost all respect for him when it became apparent he was guilty of sexual assault.

    Apr 14th, 2019 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Don Alberto

    Chicureo writes: “I lost all respect for him when it became apparent he was guilty of sexual assault.”

    Is he? show us the sentence.

    What you write is called libel and defamation.

    He was ACCUSED of rape when the woman in question found out that he had slept with another woman a couple of dayslater.

    The morning after the “rape”, which is supposed to have happened on the night between 13 and 14 August, she wrote in her twitter:

    Swedish: “söndag 15 augusti Sitta ute kl 2 och knappt frysa med världens smarteste folk, det er ju amazing! #fb”

    “Sunday, August 15 Sitting outside at 2am and barely feel cold with the world's smartest people, it's amazing! #fb”

    Screen dump on folkvet.nu/2010/10/efter-att-anna-ardin-polisanmalt-julian-assange-var-hon-tvungen-att-stada-bort-bevismaterial-pa-twitter/

    She also wrote a 7-point recipe for revenge: https://rixstep.com/1/20101214,00.shtm

    She later deleted both.

    Woman #2 hadn't been “raped” until she had learned about woman #1 and the two had conspired to frame Assange, then she suddenly remembered.

    Apr 15th, 2019 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • bushpilot

    When I learned that Assange had exposed the Democrat National Committee favoring Hillary Clinton's candidacy over Bernie Sanders and that this inappropriate favoring of one democrat over another democrat had exposed Hillary Clinton and her people as the corrupt crooks they are, I developed a small amount of respect for Assange.

    HRCs people want him locked up it seems. They are upset with him.

    Apr 15th, 2019 - 03:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DemonTree

    When I found out he was selectively releasing information to promote certain causes, I lost any remaining respect for him. But it's pretty ironic that it's the administration he helped into power who are trying to extradite him now. You can't expect gratitude from Trump, he denied Assange before the cock had crowed...

    Apr 15th, 2019 - 11:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • bushpilot

    Wikileaks never finds dirt on Russia.

    Apr 15th, 2019 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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