Fair Go For Julian Assange
Everyone deserves justice, including Julian Assange.
Julian Assange, the founder of and spokesperson for Wikileaks has done what so few have been able to accomplish. He has courageously taken on the superpowers of the world with Wikileaks, an organisation that has exposed major human rights abuses, that could have never been accomplished under the veil of secrecy.
Because of that, he is subject to reprisal from various governments through a variety of means. What is clear is that the Swedish district court has issued an interpol warrant for the arrest of Mr Assange. The charges are in their terms for "Rape and molestation".
The facts are:
The other party has stated even after the episode that it was with consent.
The charges were dropped and then raised again after a political figure with a personal interest in the coercion laws involved herself in the matter.
A 16 year old girl was also charged with the same thing around the time the prosecutor was making a decision for engaging in consential intercourse with boys that were a year younger than her.
http://www.thelocal.se/29880/20101028/
A 32 year old was freed under these laws for having violent "sex" with a 16 year old also around the time of the decision.
http://www.thelocal.se/29302/20100928/
The case was widely publicized resulting in ambiguous search terms combining "Rape" and Julian Assange.
Clearly justice is absent from these courts and Julian Assange needs our support.
You can write directly to the Director of Prosecutions at:
Director of Public Prosecution
Åklagarmyndigheten/Utvecklingscentrum i Göteborg
PO Box 2565 SE-40317 Gothenburg
Tel: +46 31 739 41 04 / 41 00
Fax: +46 31 739 42 50
marianne.ny@aklagare.se
There is also a petition that you can sign here;
http://readersupportednews.org/julian...
Terrorism and Wikileaks: Know The Difference
Upon the release of 251, 287 United States Embassy cables, congressman Peter King has requested Wikileaks to be place upon the terrorist list. He stated that the organisation, "manifests Mr Assange's purposeful intent to damage not only our national interests in fighting the war on terror, but also undermines the very safety of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan".
The problem is that he has not defined in legal or even layman's terms exactly how leaking diplomatic cables is a terrorist act. Whilst terrorism is not officially defined by United Nations, in "Measures to eliminate terrorism", terrorism is defined as:
"criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other nature that may be invoked to justify them"
Read More here:
http://hg-interestingtimes.blogspot.c...
