UK: "Belmarsh Tribunal" urges release of Julian Assange prosecution of those behind his detention

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A group of politicians, journalists and prominent whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden behind the so called ‘Belmarsh Tribunal’ urged the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, calling on those behind his detention to be prosecuted.

“If we permit and stand by, and allow Julian Assange to be persecuted in this way, have no doubt about it, the fundamental freedoms that we thought that were secured over centuries in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, will be at risk,” explained John McDonnell, a British Member of Parliament for the Labour Party.

“The Belmarsh Tribunal is a serious contribution to international justice to the extent that we continue not to call simply for the release of Julian Assange, which of course we do, but to the extent that we continue to persecute and prosecute those murderers who are acting of behalf of the one percent of the one percent,” said Yannif Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister.

The Belmarsh Tribunal was inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunal, a people’s tribunal in the 1960s which investigated and criticised US foreign policy and the war in Vietnam.

The British judge Vanessa Baraister ruled last January that Assange should not be extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom, saying there’s a great risk that he will commit suicide in US custody.

Assange faces criminal charges in the United States for publishing classified information. He was arrested by British police on 11 April 2019, after taking refuge inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London for nearly seven years.
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