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Post-Globalization:
On the Decline of the Western Hegemony:
United Nations Warns that Julian Assange
Would be Tortured in the United States
A significant factor in the decline of the former Western Hegemony is the fact some of the so-called 'International Community' countries, including and perhaps foremost the United States, have become countries which routinely utilize torture. Most notable are the stories that emanated from the Abu Garib Prison as well as the POW Prison of the US military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Now the United Nations is calling out America as putting Julian Assange in danger of being systematically tortured should he be extradited to the United States:
From RT Online:
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture has called upon authorities in the UK to block Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the United States to face espionage charges. Britain could be violating human rights laws by turning the WikiLeaks founder over to the US, due to his fragile mental state, UN expert Alice Jill Edwards warned on Tuesday.
Ahead of Assange’s final appeal against extradition this month, Edwards has warned that Assange’s “precarious mental health status” could mean that transferring him to US custody could endanger his health.
“Julian Assange suffers from long-standing and recurrent depressive order,” Edwards said in a statement published on the website of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday. “He is assessed as being at risk of committing suicide.”
Assange, now 52, came to international prominence in 2010 when he published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence operative Chelsea Manning in what was referred to as the largest disclosure of classified documents in history. He faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted of a string of espionage charges.
Edwards added that Assange is also at “risk of being placed in prolonged solitary confinement” and could receive a “potentially disproportionate sentence” in a US courtroom if extradition is approved.
She also urged London to ensure “full compliance with the absolute and non-derogable prohibition of refoulement to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
A final decision on Assange’s possible extradition is expected to be made in London’s High Court on February 20 and 21. He faces a total of 18 criminal counts in the United States over his supposed role in leaking classified documents via the WikiLeaks platform, including some that exposed alleged war crimes.
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No one can explain how the Assange leaks affected the American People. It is understood fully that they only affected the American State, which is a totally separate and very different entity.
Furthermore, it is factually confirmed that everything Assange did was normal, legal journalism, and the only reason he is being charged is that the journalism he did was particularly damaging to the US State. Moreover, he is accused of getting Donald Trump elected by leaking the emails of the highly questionable political operative of the Democrat party John Podesta.
Julian Assange should be freed and allowed to defect to Russia. The US has no jurisdiction over him.