WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is formally seeking asylum in Ecuador.
CNN.com reports:
The request comes a week after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on Thursday dismissed an application filed by an attorney for the WikiLeaks founder who was seeking to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden.
The application was Assange’s last option in the British courts. Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service has previously said if the court dismissed Assange’s appeal, his only further remedy is to apply immediately to the European Court of Human Rights, and Assange’s attorneys have vowed to do so.
The appeal itself would be a rarity, as the court’s decisions are supposed to be final in Britain.
What do you think of the legal appeals by Assange?
What do cases like this say about international justice?
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Yes. Everyone knows what this ‘extradition’ is about. They don’t even want to charge him, obviously – if they did, there’d be a warrant. You don’t need his statement to bring charges.
This is about getting him to Sweden so that American can bully Sweden into handing him over (just as they have done in the past, when they bullied Sweden into handing over two Muslims for torture). Then America will use our extreme corrupt judiciary – or, simply throw him on one of our many gulags until he dies without ever bothering with a trial.
Well if he ends up in the U.S I’ll be extremely disappointed and hope his insurance file has some impeach-level material in it.
Western governments and have behaved like a global mafia in this case, their corporate media tagging right along. What choice does he have?