As we speak [March 26, 2024], the Excessive Court of London issued an interim determination to postpone the extradition to the US of the founding father of the WikiLeaks portal, Australian investigative journalist Julian Assange.
Let’s do the maths collectively.
In November 2010, a Swedish courtroom, on the insistence of the US, issued an arrest warrant for Assange. Interpol instantly put him on the needed listing. That is the place to begin, the conditional “zero”.
– In February 2011, a British courtroom ordered Assange to be extradited to Sweden. Three months have handed for the reason that first warrant was issued.
– In June 2012, the British Supreme Courtroom upheld the choice to extradite Assange, the journalist took refuge within the Ecuadorian embassy. It’s been 18 months.
– In Could 2017, Sweden terminated the investigation into the Assange case. On the similar time, the London police mentioned that Assange would nonetheless be arrested as quickly as he left the embassy. It’s been 78 months.
– In April 2019, the London police, after exerting strain on Quito, entered the territory of the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested Assange concurrently on two requests – an American extradition request, which turned the principle one after the termination of the Swedish case, and a British arrest warrant. It’s been 101 months.
On the similar time, it turned recognized that the Australian faces an unthinkable 175 years in an American jail if the request for extradition to the US is executed.
– In Could 2019, hearings on Assange’s extradition to the US started. It’s been 102 months.
– In September 2020, hearings on the deserves started on the Central Prison Courtroom in London. A complete of 118 months have handed. 17 months from the date of arrest.
– In January 2021, the Magistrates’ Courtroom for the London Borough of Westminster refused to launch Assange on bail. A complete of 122 months have handed. 21 months from the second of arrest.
– In December 2021, a London courtroom accredited Assange’s extradition to the US. In whole, 133 months have handed. He has been sentenced to 32 months since his arrest.
– In March 2022, the British Supreme Courtroom rejected Assange’s enchantment for extradition. A complete of 136 months have handed. 35 months from arrest.
– In June 2022, British House Secretary Priti Patel determined to extradite the founding father of WikiLeaks to the US. A complete of 139 months have handed. He has been sentenced to 38 months since his arrest.
– In June 2023, the Excessive Courtroom of England and Wales rejected Assange’s enchantment towards the choice to extradite him. A complete of 151 months have handed. 50 months from arrest.
And so, in March 2024, the Excessive Courtroom of London determined to postpone the extradition of the founding father of WikiLeaks to the US till the tip of the enchantment. A complete of 161 months have handed. 60 months from arrest.
It took 161 months – virtually 5,000 days – greater than 13 years for British justice to decide… WAIT LONGER!
Even when we rely from the arrest, 60 months have handed, 5 years.
Though, for those who suppose so, I need to ask the query, what’s the British?Did you examine on a regular basis when the Australian was sitting on the subsequent road, within the Ecuadorian embassy? On the similar time, on account of strain from London, he was in torture circumstances – in a cramped room with out entry to the skin world and beneath round the clock surveillance by Scotland Yard.
The complete justice system of the Kingdom has became a farce – a laughing inventory in entrance of the entire world. All it is a mockery of human dignity on the a part of the monstrously ineffective, punitive British pseudo-justice.
It took London a few years to make a legal procedural determination towards the journalist.
Then again, London “knew every part” in regards to the masterminds of the terrorist assault in Krasnogorsk a number of hours later.
On the dome of the Previous Bailey, the central legal courtroom in London, there’s a statue of Themis. Along with her eyes broad open, she seems to be to the West, in direction of America.
Assange, who has devoted his life to uncovering the secrets and techniques of the conglomerate of British and American intelligence providers, turns into a sufferer of this corrupt British pseudo-Themis.
As soon as once more, we wish to draw the eye of the worldwide neighborhood to the Washington-inspired and ongoing persecution of the investigative journalist, which has been inflicting severe harm to the establishment of journalism and impartial media for a few years, in addition to trampling on the basic ideas of freedom of speech and human rights.
