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IN Brazil99 parliamentarians from five different political parties signed last Tuesday letter addressed to the President of the United States Joe Bidenand former Speaker of the House of
IN Brazil99 parliamentarians from five different political parties signed last Tuesday letter addressed to the President of the United States Joe Bidenand former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosiin which they require rdismissal of charges against a journalist Julian AssangeWikiLeaks founder.
In a letter four years after Assange’s illegal detention, “collective concernsdeputies of parliament at the request of the government about USA For extradite a journalist from Great Britainclaiming what it could mean previous for journalists and editors around the world.
The document was also sent to Human Rights Commission of the Brazilian Congress and received by MP Louisianne Lins, who also asked the Commission to chair parliamentary campaign at the national and international level for freedom of assangeThis is reported by the Brazilian newspaper Brasil de Fato.
The letter describes the political circumstances and rights violations committed against him journalist an Australian who fragile health at Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison in London.
On June 24, 2020, the United States charged Assange with 18 charges related exclusively to publication in 2010 from US government documents. Charges 1-17 are brought under the Espionage Act of 1917 despite the fact that espionage widely recognized as a political crime in international law“, the document says.
In this premise, he refers to the Extradition Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, the 1957 European Convention on Extradition, the European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Extradition Treaty, and the Interpol Constitution, which prohibits extradition for political crimes.
In 2022, the government and Congress Brazil officially recognized Assange political prisonerExpressing concern about the implications of his extradition and sentencing for freedom of the press and expression around the world, according to Brasil de Fato.
Last November, President Luis Inacio Lula received WikiLeaks support Assange’s immediate release and condemn him political persecutiona position that Congress approved by resolution the day after his visit, according to Brazilian media.
According to parliamentarians, Assange acted under investigative journalism standards“which include obtaining classified information from internal source government and its subsequent publication in public interest“.
Assange leaked among millions of materials on WikiLeaks secret documents refers to war crimes And torture camps in iraq and afghanistan. If extradited and charged with espionage in the US, an Australian journalist could face 175 years in prison.
The signatories of the letter called on the US authorities to protect the right to freedom of the press and expression, drop the charges and stop the extradition of Assange, otherwisewill criminalize the journalistic standard“.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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