The Assange compromise leaves a lot to be desired
The balance sheet is probably as even as it could realistically be
Wikileaks
Tuesday
Tuesday
Press freedom means protecting Julian Assange
Britain has now apparently bound itself in a tangled web of law to abandon its tradition of harboring dissidents
Tuesday
Could Assange be freed?
If he wins, the whole case for his extradition could be reopened
Monday
Is Julian Assange on a hiding to nothing?
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer reviewed
Thursday
Is Julian Assange on a hiding to nothing?
A question looms throughout this book: is it better to die rather than experience the wrath of a publicly shamed America? The story begins in 2018 when Nils Melzer, a UN Special Rapporteur on torture, received an email: ‘Julian Assange is seeking your protection.’ Melzer’s office receives approximately 50 requests for help each week, and he was initially dismissive of this one. He believed the founder of WikiLeaks was ‘hiding out in an embassy somewhere because of rape allegations’. A few months later, Assange’s lawyers made contact again. This time Melzer read the documents forwarded to him and changed his mind: ‘I began to wake up to my own prejudice.’
