(ANSA) – LONDON, JUN 23 – Julian Assange was subjected to a sort of punitive search and transferred to a penalty cell in recent days, coinciding with the announcement of the signature by Priti Patel, Minister of the Interior British government of Boris Johnson, of the decree authorizing his highly contested extradition to the US. Extradition already approved by UK courts despite protests from human rights activists, associations for the protection of freedom of information and UN bodies that risks exposing him to the prospect of being sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for contributing to make public at the time confidential documents embarrassing for many governments, through the WikiLeaks platform: including files relating to American war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq.
In the past few hours, the wife of the 51-year-old Australian editor and journalist, the South African lawyer Stella Morris, denounced him. According to Morris, the employees of the Belmarsh maximum security prison (where Assange has been detained for more than three years, despite no longer having any pending with British justice) have argued that they must proceed in this way “for his protection” of him. But in reality, according to supporters, they “simply inflicted an additional” extra judicial punishment “, committing an” unacceptable and certainly illegal “abuse.
Stella Morris added that in the weekend following Patel’s announcement to the WikiLeaks founder, any visit was precluded, despite the fact that he still has the right to ask for a final appeal process (within 14 days), before the hypothetical delivery to the overseas ally. These facts – commented John Rees, animator of the ‘Assange Libero’ campaign – “show how the authorities react in a vindictive way to the pressure. And how we must redouble our efforts to stop extradition, for the good of Julian Assange and in the name of the defense of the free press “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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