Spanish lawyer Baltasar GarzonJulian Assange’s lawyer said this Wednesday that the Wikileaks founder “He is being killed for exercising freedom of the press,” and added that this was “political persecution.”

Garzón said “what we see is a semblance of legality” in his case. “We could not start with protection“They didn’t leave us,” he added in an interview with the magazine. Circle radiusThe publication reported this in a statement.

He London High Court See today the extradition request submitted by the United States, which Assange’s defense is opposing on the grounds that you won’t get a fair trialFor now, he remains in preventive detention at a high-security center in the British capital.

Garzón emphasized that almost all Latin American heads of state supported Assange’s case, while the European authorities, according to the statement, do not take any position: “Great Britain hardly cooperated for not standing up to the United States. This is the political persecution of a person for exercising freedom of the press. This is the lesson the United States wants to teach the world,” the former judge said.

However, he hoped that the UK would not extradite his client “to very delicate health situation“because I won’t have a fair trial.

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“There is no way he will get a fair trial if he is extradited to the United States because 90% of the Virginians who will make up the people’s jury work for American intelligence. “So, what can you expect?” – he concluded.

He also emphasized that the security company of the city. Embassy Ecuador in London, where Assange had been a refugee for years, “he spied for North American intelligence,” according to the memo Circle radius.

Garson compared Assange’s case to that of his Russian opponent Alexey Navalnythose who died in prison, who “had killedpresumably for political reasons“, he commented.

“Sometimes you realize that what you fight for will have consequences, but in the case of Julian (Assange) put your responsibilities first as a journalist, despite the consequences,” he said.

He added that “this An autopsy of Navalny is necessary and that the family has a body […] there was an unnatural violent death here, therefore it would be murder or homicide, but in any case there is responsibility of the authorities at the highest level, starting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Navlani was killed, presumably for political reasons, and Assange murder for the sake of freedom of the press“,” he synthesized.

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On the Gaza War and South Africa’s complaint against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuSpanish lawyer stated: “ Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, it’s sad that he hasn’t spoken out yet. On the issue of Ukraine, the reaction was very fast, but here there are more than enough elements for its development, and this has not been done yet.”

He added that “Israel has failed to comply with international law; “Hamas’ terrorist actions were barbaric, but there are many ways to combat terrorism and violence, and none of them can justify the systematic killing of innocent people.”

(EFE)