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"It serves no purpose, it is unjust:" 63 Australian politicians urge US to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walk free (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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The Australian federal politicians have explicitly called on the US to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, who remains in Belmarsh prison in the UK, warning of “a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia” if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited.

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[–] yildo@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence. Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

He's so smart that he fled a country that doesn't extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@yildo

Assange is a rapist that works for Russian intelligence.

Do you have any source for that?

Notice how he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

What do you want to say? Even if we assume that's true (I don't, but let's ignore that for now), what does that mean? If someone never published something that puts X in bad light, are they all spies for X then?

[–] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 4 points 1 year ago

he has never once published anything that puts Russia or US Republicans in bad light

I don't think that is true. With regard to Russia: https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/. Wikileaks started publishing stuff about the US during the Bush presidency, and continued into Trump. I think the main factor would have been what was available to them, in terms of leaks not already exposed elsewhere. Certainly the evidence suggests they published leaks provided them to by what is likely a state (Russian) sponsored group, and that formed part of a broader pattern by that state in interfering in the US's elections, but that is not to say they wouldn't have published unreleased leaks in the same circumstances if they had them about another political party.

a country that doesn’t extradite to the US (Sweden) to a country that does (UK)

Sweden has an extradition treaty with the US: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/10-201.22-Sweden-EU-Extradition-Treaty.pdf

There has certainly been a smear campaign (psyop?) against Assange to mislead people into hating him - and reading things like your comment I think it may have been quite successful, at least with Americans.