From 12:30pm tomorrow at the Hiroshima Day protest in front of the Victorian State Library in Flinders Street in the Melbourne CBD, John Shipton, father of Julian Assange will be speaking.
The protest is to demand that Britain end its illegal imprisonment of Julian Assange. Whilst Julian Assange has been outrageously held in solitary confinement in London’s Belmarsh prison since 11 April 2019 – more than 3 years ago – his illegal confinement, in fact, began almost 7 years prior to that on 19 June 2012 when he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian to avoid being extradited to Sweden supposedly to assist the Swedish government in its inquiries about sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Historical background to the illegal imprisonment of Julian Assange
When the Swedish government refused to give Julian Assange the guarantee he sought, that would not thence be extradited to the United States, he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy. Had he not done so, he would almost certainly found himself arrested, thence flown to the United States from Sweden and put before the kangaroo court of the Eastern District of Virginia which had secretly issued the indictment of him. He would then have been and thence locked up for the rest of his life in solitary confinement.
The United States’ intention to extradite Julian Assange was plainly against British law and international law. Even if he were a citizen of the United States, he would have been protected from extradition by the First Amendment to the United States’ Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech, but Julian Assange is not a citizen of the United States, so the United States’ attempt to extradite him is doubly illegal.
So Julian Assange had clearly not broken any law in seeking asylum inside the London Ecuadorian Embassy. However, this was disregarded by Judge Vanessa Barraitser, following his forced removal from the Ecuadorian Embassy on 11 April 2019. Julian Assange was sentenced on 1 May to the maximum 50 weeks imprisonment and made to spend that sentence in solitary confinement.
That 50 week sentence ended on 26 March 2020, so he should have been free no later than 27 March. Nevertheless, because by that time the United StatesJulian Assange, who is not convicted of anything, still remains in prison’ was then seeking Julian Assange’s extradition his already illegal imprisonment continues right until today, 5 August 2022 – more than two-and-a-half years later – and beyond.
Julian Assange, who is not convicted of anything, still remains in prison
Apart from the one unwarranted conviction of ‘skipping bail’ for which he has already served his 50 week sentence, Julian Assange has broken no British law, so Swedish law and no Australian law. His continued imprisonment, and in solitary confinement, is plainly not only morally repugnant, but in complete violation of all laws.
Surely, given that Julian Assange is a citizen of Australia, would it not be possible for the Australian government to use its authority as sovereign national government to make representations to both the British government and to the United States’ government on behalf of Julian Assange? Couldn’t the Australian government
began more than 3 years ago. against the continued illegal imprisonment of Julian Assange to demand that your Federal Government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese act now to (1) demand of the UK government that it end its illegal imprisonment Julian Assange in London and (2) demand of United States’ government that it desist with its attempts to extradite Julian Assange and imprison him for the rest of his life in solitary confinement.
Julian Assange, received numerous awards for founding the Wikileaks news service. Wikileaks enabled those working within corporations, government and the military, who were aware of the
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