– It is completely shameful if Støre today is to praise brave journalism in Russia and the Philippines, while he tacitly agrees that our closest allies take the life of Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States, according to a British appeals court, contrary to what another British judge came to in January.
Assange’s supporters react strongly to Friday’s ruling:
– Julian is once again in mortal danger, and it is also journalists ‘right to publish material that governments and companies find troublesome, WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson writes on Twitter.
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The United States has issued a comprehensive indictment against Assange after WikiLeaks in 2010 published 500,000 classified documents that drew strong criticism of US warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since 2019, he has been imprisoned in the Belmarsh High Security Prison outside London, awaiting the British judiciary to process the US extradition request.
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Prior to that, he spent about seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for fear that the British authorities would extradite him to Sweden and then on to the United States.
Moxnes comes with a clear call to Støre to stand up against the US persecution of WikiLeaks and Assange.
– It is completely shameful if Støre today is to praise brave journalism in Russia and the Philippines, while he tacitly agrees that our closest allies take the life of Julian Assange. Then the hypocrisy is so great that it affects the Richter scale, says Red leader Bjørnar Moxnes to Nettavisen.
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– Assange is being persecuted because he has revealed Western war crimes and torture. But instead of punishing the war criminals and torturers, Norway’s closest ally will send him to the United States, where it was just revealed that the CIA had plans to kill him and sentence him to 175 years in prison, Moxnes continues.
– The smell of the hypocrisy of the elite who clapped for human rights and freedom of expression during the Nobel ceremony at the same time as they contribute to Assange being sent to the United States to die in prison, is to become physically unwell, he concludes.
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