Whistleblower

Assange sees himself as the winner

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has the UN-legal opinion is that his many years of Botschaftszuflucht as a deprivation of liberty, classifies as a “victory”. Sweden and the UK should have the “judgement”.

Initially said Assange via video link at a press conference his lawyers of a “significant decision” of the UN working group on arbitrary detention. Sweden and the United Kingdom have according to this conclusion to act. In addition, there is no charge against him.

Later he showed himself on the balcony of the ecuadorischen Embassy in London (in the article), and directed an emotional appeal to his followers. The report was a “historic victory”, he picked up his statement from the previous video. Sweden and the UK have lost.

At the end of the “detention” required

A UN group of experts had before the years of forced stay in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as “arbitrary detention” by the UK and Sweden are classified and an end to the “Imprisonment” for Assange demanded. Sweden and the United Kingdom assign this back. Sweden’s foreign Ministry said, Assange did it at any time freigestanden, the message to leave, he was, therefore, never been imprisoned. The report of the UN panel is for the judiciary in the UK and in Sweden, is not legally binding.

Assange: PK via Skype

The Australians had mid-2012 in the Ecuadorian Embassy fled. Since he left the site not because of him, then immediately the arrest by the British authorities and the Transfer to Sweden and threatened to have. Against him is a European arrest warrant. He is supposed to be in Sweden to Vergewaltigungsvorwürfen be questioned.

He also had his Wikileaks secret US military documents, published and the government in Washington seriously annoyed. Assange fears that an extradition from Sweden to the USA.

uh/qu (dpa,afp)