Des personnalités politiques issues du monde entier ont rejoint le personnes qui militent déjà en faveur de la libération de Julian Assange. Leur méthode ? Une lettre ouverte qui met en garde la Grande-Bretagne concernant une possible extradition vers les Etats-Unis. Parmi eux, Dilma Roussef ou encore Lula, qui ont eux-mêmes connus la répression politique. Tous font bloc pour défendre le lanceur d’alerte un temps réfugié dans l’ambassade d’Equateur à Londres puis incarcéré à la prison de haute sécurité de Belmarsh depuis le 11 avril 2019, jour de son arrestation à l’ambassade d’Équateur.
As Julian Assange fights U.S. extradition at the Old Bailey in London, over one hundred eminent political figures, including 13 past and present heads of state, numerous ministers, members of parliament and diplomats, have today denounced the illegality of the proceedings and appealed for Assange’s immediate release.
The politicians from 27 different countries and from across the political spectrum have joined 189 independent international lawyers, judges, legal academics and lawyers’ associations by endorsing their open letter to the UK Government warning that the U.S. extradition request and extradition proceedings violate national and international law, breach fair trial rights and other human rights, and threaten press freedom and democracy.
Politicians endorsing the call to free Julian Assange include Jeremy Corbyn, former Prime Minister of Spain, Luis Zapatero, several members of the European Parliament, former presidents of Brazil, Lula da Silva and Dilma Roussef, and Australian parliamentarians from the cross-party parliamentary group to free Assange.
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