Julian Assange Is Being Murdered
Julian
Assange Is Being Murdered
The
criminal British government has agreed to assassinate Julian Assange for its
criminal Washington master
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By
Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
CraigMurray.org.uk
June
1, 2019
We
are seriously worried about the condition of Julian Assange. He was too unwell
to appear in court yesterday, and his Swedish lawyer, Per Samuelson, found him
in a state where he was unable to conduct a conversation and give instructions.
There are very definite physical symptoms, particularly rapid weight loss, and
we are not satisfied that genuine and sufficient diagnostic efforts are being
made to determine the underlying cause.
Julian
had been held for the last year in poor, highly confining and increasingly
oppressive conditions in the Ecuadorean Embassy and his health was already
deteriorating alarmingly before his expulsion and arrest. A number of
conditions, including dental abcesses, can have very serious consequences if
long term untreated, and the continual refusal by the British government and
latterly the Ecuadoreans to permit him access to adequate healthcare while a
political asylee was a callous denial of basic human rights.
I
confess to feeling an amount of personal relief after his arrest that at least
he would now get proper medical treatment. However there now seems to be no
intention to provide that and indeed since he has been in Belmarsh his health
problems have accelerated. I witnessed enough of the British state’s complicity
in torture to know that this may be more than just the consequence of
unintended neglect. That the most lucid man I know is now not capable of having
a rational conversation is extremely alarming.
There
is no rational reason that Assange needs to be kept in a high security facility
for terrorists and violent offenders. We are seeing the motive behind his
unprecedented lengthy imprisonment for jumping police bail when he entered
political asylum. As a convicted prisoner, Assange can be kept in a worse
regime than if he were merely on remand for his extradition proceedings. In
particular, his access to his lawyers is extremely restricted and for a man
facing major legal proceedings in the UK, USA and Sweden it is impossible, even
were he healthy, for his lawyers to have sufficient time with him adequately to
prepare his cases while he is under the restrictions placed on a convict. Of
course we know from the fact that, within three hours of being dragged from the
Ecuadorean Embassy, he was already convicted and sentenced to a lengthy prison
term, that the state has no intention that his lawyers should be able to
prepare.
I
have asked before and I ask again. If this were a dissident publisher in
Russia, what would the UK political and media class be saying about his being
dragged out by armed police, and convicted and sentenced to jail by a judge
without a jury, just three hours later, after a farce of a “trial” in which the
judge insulted him and called him a “narcissist” before he had said anything in
his defence? The Western media would be up in arms if that happened in Russia.
Here, they cheer it on.
Below
is a photo of Julian in the Embassy in happier times, during the Correa
Presidency, with a truly amazing and strong group of people, every one of whose
stories we can follow and learn from:
Left
to Right: Thomas Drake, Coleen Rowley, Julian Assange, Elizabeth Murray, Ray
McGovern, Nadira, Ann Wright
I
should add that I am currently trying to see Julian personally with two other
close friends, but obviously access is extremely difficult.
Julian’s personal possessions have been seized
by the Ecuadoreans to be given to the US government. These include not only
computers but his legal and medical papers. This is yet another example of
completely illegal state action against him. Furthermore, any transfer must
involve the stolen material physically transiting London, and the British
government is taking no steps to prevent that, which is yet another of multiple
signs of the degree of international governmental coordination behind the
flimsy pretence of independent judicial action.
Julian
is imprisoned for at least another five months, even with parole (which they
will probably find an excuse not to grant). After that he will be held further
on remand. There is therefore no need for rush. The refusal of the Swedish
court to delay a hearing on a potential extradition warrant at all, to allow
Julian to recover to the extent he can instruct his lawyer, and the very brief
postponement of the US extradition hearing in London, with the intimation it
may be held inside Belmarsh prison if Julian is too unwell to move, are both
examples of an entirely unaccustomed and unnecessary haste with which the case
is being rushed forward. The mills of God grind slowly; those of the Devil seem
to spin dangerously fast.
Finally,
for those who still believe that actions against Julian, particularly but not
only in Sweden, are in any way motivated by a concern for justice, particularly
justice for violated women, I do urge you to read this excellent account by Jonathan Cook. As a summary of
the truly breathtaking series of legal abuses by states against Assange, that
the corporate and state media has been deliberately distorting and hiding for a
decade, it cannot be bettered.
Reprinted
with the author’s permission.
Copyright
© 2019 Craig Murray
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