Comment: Julian Assange wins, but not the freedom

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Comment: Julian Assange wins, but not the freedom

The UN have the detention of Wikileaks founder Assange as “arbitrary,” branded and demand his release. A right step in a long judicial Saga, but not end, says Matthias von Hein.

So hears a resounding slap in the face: A Menschenrechtsgremium of the United Nations, the British and Swedish justice of the Levites. The judgment of the – admittedly little-known working group on arbitrary arrests is clear: The handling of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is illegal. His freedom is immediately restored. He is also for the nearly 2000 days of unlawful detention to compensate.

You have once again the facts directions: so Far, against Julian Assange, not even a charge. The British justice system is based on a European arrest warrant. The goes back to the request of a Swedish Prosecutor, according to a survey Assanges – at the stage of a Vorermittlung. Originally with the case concerned Prosecutor in Stockholm had the Verwürfe as irrelevant discarded before you by the Prosecutor in far-away Gothenburg picked up again. This particular Prosecutor is disgraced because: you do the working group of the allegation, the investigation, abducted, and thus disproportionate in the length. For years she insisted that Assange in Sweden, to hear, and a survey in the UK rejected. Here the Swedish investigators in the same period, in other cases, over 40 surveys conducted in the UK.

Crusade against whistleblowers

If it were not for the founder of Wikileaks, would probably neither the Swedish nor the British justice the absurd Zwangsszenario to the “survey” Assanges maintained. There seems to be less about the rule of Law as to the Exploit of laws with the aim of an uncomfortable journalists to Silence. One must assume that the US authorities in the Background corresponding pressure. Specifically Julian Assange, but also other Wikileaks Mitareiter in Washington powerful enemies. The Wikileaks publications have since 2010, a dirty side of the US policy exposed – above all in the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. What came to light was extremely uncomfortable for the political Establishment. This foamed according to: politicians and the military have in the US television publicly for the murder of Assange called. For the US Vice-President Joe Biden is Assange a “Cyber Terrorist”.

DW editor Matthias von Hein

No US Administration is ever so hard against Whistleblower procedure as that of Barack Obama. It is also about the right time. So how in the summer of 2013: There was the airplane of Bolivian President Evo Morales on the way from Moscow back to Bolivia to land in Vienna forced. The reason: It was the suspicion that he had the NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Board. In view of such operations may be the concern of Assange against extradition to the United States, not as a phone Argument to dismiss. Even if the UK and also Sweden treuherzig assure you would be no extradition request from the USA. The fact is: The FBI determined against Wikileaks. And the presumption is obvious: arrest warrants and applications for extradition are already in the drawers and can be quickly on the Fax.

A victory not for freedom

The verdict from Geneva is Julian Assange although a boost. The freedom is there for him but not so fast. Because more than moral pressure to build up, can the reviewers in Geneva. Both the UK and Sweden have made it clear that they are not at the judgement of the working group is bound to feel. This is short-sighted and wrong. Because the Person Assanges is also clear: in This way they weaken their own Position in Menschenrechtsstreitigkeiten with Unrechtsstaaten. The take tacitly accepted in.

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