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Rally for Julian Assange taking place now at Ecuador Embassy, London

WISE Up | 20.06.2012 13:06 | Repression | Terror War

People are gathering at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London now in solidarity with Julian Assange who took refuge there yesterday and is seeking political asylum in Ecuador.

photo from recent solidarity vigil at the Supreme Court
photo from recent solidarity vigil at the Supreme Court


Address of Embassy:

Flat 3B 3 Hans Crescent
London SW1X 0LS.
Tel: 020 7584 1367
Nearest Tube: Knightsbridge


More information:

 http://wp.me/p1rtyw-Fb

 http://wlcentral.org/node/2663

 http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.it/2012/06/polasylum2assange.html

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Not so simple

20.06.2012 19:10

This is not as simple as the UK media wants us to think. Assange is wanted for questioning by the Swedish PROSECUTOR, not the Swedish government. Normally the UK government would not grant extradition based on a claim by the prosecution, but recently the UK government signed an EU agreement that would allow this because of a mis-understanding of the meaning of the act. The terms “judicial authority” and "autorité judiciaire" were treated as equal when this was put to Parliament, but the French term has a wider meaning that the English one does not.

According to English/UK law, “judicial authority” would not mean a prosecutor but rather a judge. The French term has a wider meaning and includes a prosecutor. Furthermore, the acts Assange is accused of in Sweden would not be classified as rape in almost any country, including the UK. So, the British government is extraditing Assange based on something that would not be a crime in the UK by virtue of a mis-translated act of Parliament.

The British media has been swift to condemn Assange, and also swift to belittle and berate Ecuador. Thank goodness Mr. Assange was able to speak out when he did. I wish him luck with his plight and hope that he does not face the same fate as the Welshman Bradley Manning.

Law student


Human rights and wrongs

20.06.2012 20:36

The right-wing British media and obedient public seem to have an interesting set of double standards when it comes to extradition. In the case of Abu Qatada, who used European law to avoid deportation, there were calls to leave the EU, rip up the convention on human rights and create a new British constitution. In the case of Assange, who is appealing to English law, the decision is to follow EU law, using a French interpenetration in favour of English and to deport him to socialist Sweden. Murdoch, UKIP and the Daily Mail should be protesting against the extradition of Assange if they followed their own logic. But alas larger forces seem to be at work here. As Marx noted, "Between equal rights, force decides".

O. Contraire


and where do we go ??

21.06.2012 01:05

The meek shalt inherit the earth -

think about what it means in both negative and positive terms ...

coz if you let the suckers roll over you, they will bury you and walk on by ...

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