Wikileaks founder and award-winning journalist, Julian Assange, is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in southeast London – as an unconvicted Category-A prisoner, held in a maximum security facility normally reserved for many of the worst murders and terrorists. He is effectively being ‘kept on ice’ by the British justice system for their allies in Washington DC – on the basis of a US extradition request for a raft of charges directly tied to the publication of secret documents and videos exposing, among other things – war crimes in overseas theatres of conquest like Iraq and Afghanistan.
If extradited he faces likely human rights violations, as well as being denied his basic rights in a highly politicized trial, and may even be subjected to inhumane conditions in prolonged solitary confinement, including psychological and physical torture. Time is running out to prevent his incarceration in America…
Peter Hitchens from the Mail On Sunday writes…
It could happen any day now. After yet another brief, unsuccessful court hearing, a column of vans and police cars roars out of Belmarsh prison in London and hurries to Heathrow, where a manacled, stooped and blinking prisoner is handed over to American officials and bundled aboard a plane bound for Washington DC.
There he will face the strong possibility of decades buried alive in some federal dungeon, the sort of place intended for mass murderers or terrorists.
But the man involved is neither of these things.
This will be an irrevocable and shameful event, against which all patriotic, freedom-loving people in this country should be ranged.But by the time most of us have realised what has happened, it will be over. So now is the moment to act.
I must beg you to join me, as soon as you can, in protesting against the fast-approaching extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. I am sorry to say that I do not believe he will receive justice when he gets there. I simply cannot see why our supposedly independent courts have so far permitted this, when the extradition is so blatantly political – something clearly banned under the UK-US Extradition Treaty. I am astonished at how few people in Parliament or the media have spoken out against this grave injustice. I am amazed that it should have fallen to me – a person who has no great love for Mr Assange or his politics – to speak for him. The only time we ever met, in debate, we clashed angrily. But his extradition would be an outrage.
He faces absurd charges of spying, when he never spied. His crime was to embarrass the US government by selectively releasing information that Washington had tried and failed to keep secret.
PERCEPTION RESET 