How to say that destiny is marked, despite the global protests of various voices: from UN environments to NGOs of the caliber of Amnesty International (AI) or Reporters Without Borders, from journalistic associations from half the world to political parties and exponents (also Italians) outside the choir, and even some bipartisan sector of the Westminster Parliament (from former Labor Jeremy Corbyn to former Conservative guarantee minister Davide Davies).
And Anthony Albanese himself, new Prime Minister of Assange’s homeland from the ranks of the Australian Labor left.
“Allowing Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States would expose him to great danger and send a shocking message to journalists around the world.”shouted, among the first, Agnes Callamard, general secretary of AI, and described as little credible, precedents in hand, the pro forma commitment put in the final phase by the representatives of Washington to save, if not another reprobation, an “isolation prolonged in prison” and humiliations equal to “torture”.
In the front row, in the battle of last resort for Julian Assange, is, above all Wikileaks, and naturally Stella Morris: the South African lawyer who gave Assange two children during the 7 years of his asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to later marry him in March behind the walls of the gloomy Belmarsh maximum security prison.
Today, Morris denounced, “is a black day both for freedom of information in the world and for British democracy. Priti Patel chose to be an accomplice in the extradition of Julian to a country that plotted to assassinate him, and that wants to transform journalism from investigation into a crime. My husband did nothing wrong, he is a journalist and editor guilty only of having done his duty”, revealing information of public interest also through some of the most prestigious publications in the world.
“Let’s not get confused, this was always a case of political persecution, not a legal case,” she presented, clinging to the hope of the umpteenth appeal and a re-launch of street protests to say convinced that the party “is not over yet” , and there may be an open path “to Julian’s freedom”, still “long and winding”.
In a context that is still difficult for a figure never aligned as the controversial Australian activist, all the more so in the climate of the new cold war with Russia that broke out with the invasion of Ukraine.
Figure to whom the United States – filed for a long time Sweden’s attempt to compromise it with the implausible suspicions of rape – do not hesitate to impute not only the alleged crime of complicity in the hacking of Pentagon files, but also an accusation of rape of the law on espionage (Espionage Act of 1917) -, never seen punish the dissemination of secret documents by the media.
Source: Ambito
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