Jullian's father is going around the world telling people how brutally corrupt this all is, and how he fears for his son's life. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture agrees with him: https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian....
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sentenci...
> The UK remains in violation of a United Nations decision from 2016 that Mr. Assange is being subjected to Arbitrary Detention [1]. The UK government refuses to release most of its internal communications relating to Mr. Assange saying that to do so would compromise the United Kingdom’s national security and diplomatic relations.
[1] https://justice4assange.com/UN-Working-Group-Decision.html
Should we assume from the sudden change in topic that you now agree that the trial for an offense under the UK's Bail Act was, in fact, fair (or at the very least that there doesn't seem to be any evidence to the contrary)?
FYI UNGWAD is not a judicial body; its opinions (not decisions) have no binding force whatsoever.
Why would I assume it's fair when he's already been tortured for years by solitary confinement, and often refused access to counsel? Not to mention, had spurious cases taken against him; and multiple, provably false, coordinated and widespread media smears in the UK and US?
FYI, I never claimed anything about binding force - but if the UN's top torture opinion guy says Assange is being tortured, and his dad says he's being tortured, and he looks like a man slowly dying every time he's allowed out to speak, which is basically never - I'm more than a little suspicious.
Made his bed and now has to lie in it.
It's extradition hearings not a trail. Extraditions are pretty common, the statistics I found seem to indicate roughly 1,000 requests per year with about 50% being successful (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...)
Then there's the mysterious disappearing of his friends, and presidential candidates laughing about droning him.
It sure would be nice to see the tech community challenge the worst of the disinfo and rally behind truth.
That's your definition. He would probably argue "enemy of my enemy is my friend".
But by using the language of the military industrial powers that be, you are engaging in doublespeak.
By the way, I've posted 3 substantive links in this very comment chain, and if there's ever been a single shred of evidence to support the claim that Assange is an asset, I've never seen it. You know that claim by the Guardian was shown to be a flat lie, right?
Wikileaks was a state actor, not a journalism.