Gavin Mackintosh-
Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, must be freed, according to a U.N panel that has rejected a U.K appeal on its original ruling.
A U.N. panel has stuck to its original ruling that WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is a victim of arbitrary detention, rejecting a request by Britain to review the case.
The U.N Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Britain had not presented adequate information to merit new examination. The panel made the decision at a meeting last week, the U.N. human rights office announced on Wednesday.
The last time the panel concluded on the case of Assange was last February, when the panel found that Britain and Sweden had “arbitrarily detained” Assange. The ruling stated that Assange should be freed and was entitled to compensation.
Assange has been exiled in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, in a long and drawn effort to evade arrest and extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape.Whether those allegations of rape are genuine or concocted is one we will never know without a trial or questionning on the allegations.
What Assange, a known whistle blower, could do is conduct the trial himself by given the world all the details of the allegations and his defence if he knows what they are.The presumption of innocence until proven guilty has always been the way of the justice system, but if this man is by any stretach of the imagination guilty, the ruling will afford him the right to completely escape justice.
Assange was responsible for the detailed leaks of the emails of former democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and may single handedly have cost her the election. However, the known whostle blower, can comfortably argue, as he has done, that all he did was make public facts contained in her emails which he did not create, and that it was the facts and the publics 0response to those facts that cost her the elections.
Hillary Clinton had vowed to track down Assange in the event of victory, a victory that eluded her so painfully, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, are said to have gone into a meltdown.
Assange has expressed fears he could be sent to the United States where he could be dealt with heavy handedly for his spilling by WikiLeaks, but with a new administration underway, his fears may be unfounded.
Once Assange is freed, he should live by his own principles. Publish all the evidence the U.K and Sweden have against him, his defence, and let us be the judge.