...It is unlikely Assange would get a fair trial in the U.S., which is gripped by national security mania. At best, he would likely face a long sentence in solitary confinement in one of America’s dreaded “supermax” prisons under conditions human rights groups call torture.
In a clear violation of the Vienna Convention, Britain is threatening to arrest Assange by invading Ecuador’s embassy, provoking a major diplomatic crisis that would threaten its own diplomatic posts around the world to invasion.
Why, one asks, is Britain stirring up such a storm when Assange was only a visitor? Australia has ducked this issue, preferring to throw its citizen to the wolves. Sweden and Britain have come across as being rather too compliant with the U.S. demands.
Just about everyone knows that Washington is behind efforts to corral Assange and ship him to America for trial though his alleged misdeeds were all done outside the US...
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ecuadors-assange-stunt.aspx?pageID=449&nID=28209&NewsCatID=396
Will he spend the rest of his life in an embassy or there is a way to run from this blockade ?
In a clear violation of the Vienna Convention, Britain is threatening to arrest Assange by invading Ecuador’s embassy, provoking a major diplomatic crisis that would threaten its own diplomatic posts around the world to invasion.
Why, one asks, is Britain stirring up such a storm when Assange was only a visitor? Australia has ducked this issue, preferring to throw its citizen to the wolves. Sweden and Britain have come across as being rather too compliant with the U.S. demands.
Just about everyone knows that Washington is behind efforts to corral Assange and ship him to America for trial though his alleged misdeeds were all done outside the US...
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ecuadors-assange-stunt.aspx?pageID=449&nID=28209&NewsCatID=396
Will he spend the rest of his life in an embassy or there is a way to run from this blockade ?
