WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange will have been arbitrarily detained by the UK at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for five years as of Monday June 19, 2017 (nearly seven years in the UK total). There are many valuable lessons in the case for the international human rights system, refugee law and diplomatic relations.
An Amicus brief has been filed in Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The essential points of the Amicus brief are these:
1. states have the right and sometimes the duty to grant asylum in areas of effective control such as embassies; a related practice is seen in UN compounds
2. the importance of this norm is increasingly seen in its actual and potential contribution to saving lives and keeping order by assessing refugees at or near their source of origin
3. the host state (the state that the embassy etc. is located in) has positive and negative duties in relation to the asylum granted
4. should the host state not facilitate enjoyment of the asylum or remove the underlying threat that gave rise to it the asylum seeker will eventually suffer indefinite detention by virtue of their ongoing confinement
5. the indefinite detention of an asylum seeker is a form of arbitrary detention creating additional obligations on the host state to restore freedom of movement to the asylum seeker
6. in practice most host states resolve the actual or threatened arbitrary detention of such asylum seekers through safe passage out of the territory or by removing the underlying threat
(the US continues its attempts to bring a prosecution against Mr. Assange for revealing human rights abuses by its military and secret services; the UK continues its attempt to arrest him for applying for asylum in the first instance as a claimed “bail violation” of his house arrest conditions; Sweden dropped its extradition warrant and closed its investigation after finally taking his statement last year–he was never charged. details: https://justice4assange.com/).
The English translation of the Amicus brief is here: Amicus_brief_English
The Swedish Rape Allegation further bedevilled The Human Rights Aspect Of His Plight
It is a tragedy that Julian Assange is denied freedom. Thank you for fighting for him.
I agree. I’ve always been for this unusual and brave individual. I hope he gets mercy and justice.
No human been can feel living safe and free on this planet while people still being arrested, or prosecuted, for the simple act of stating the truth. Julian Assange imprisonment is an example on how occidental official’s effort for maintaining justice, peace and freedom, has been applied in the wrong direction.
Please continue help,asylum, and your deep, world wide example of RIGHTEOUSNESS over terrible WRONG by the U.S. We admire Ecuador as sublime example of GOODNESS IN THE WORLD.Much love to you, Ecuador, and Julian ASSANGE, from Our family in Dallas,Texas.
Re: *6, that’s probabaly when the host country doesn’t have a significant vested interest in the asylum seeker’s detention. Power and politics will always be in play whatever’s wriiten in the books.
Unbeliaveble, they’ll just use any excuse. Disgraceful!
He ain’t guilty of that. He simply stated honestly “I had the law forgotten not”. He is missing his children and family all together. Besides would you rather have cannibals making your laws? I don’t think so. You know he has a lot of courage and the ones threatened by this know it.
Oh man, your talking about 5 years running from being arrested from different governments around the globe! Well how about having medical issues within it. Julian how about being arrested medically for at least for more then 10 to 12 years already. It’s the whole damn system man. You should be thankful that your not involved in any medical situation Julian. Otherwise that’s the last thing eventually every another government section they would most certainly expect from you to be involved in. Indirectly, that is eventually involving yourself directly you would be targeted towards through the other way out. Talk about the people getting arrested through the medically necessary processes, created by different world wide governances. With their strange difficult medical procedures that aren’t equally established ever. From generation to another generation. This whole lunitic fringe concept would surely never gonna end Julian. Bit by bit, these different government sectors won’t let you live properly as long as you like, or how you wanna live, by your rules’n regularity of freedom. It’s just an illusion of freedom. When eventually you yourself become part of that slavery. Julian I’m not here to disappoint, or simply discourage you. But in fact to encourage you to make a stand & expose all of the One World Governance, and Expose their different medical procedures from different parts of the world. Expose every last one of them Julian. Please do it. It’s high time already, that someone exposed these barbaric bruts. They should be ashamed of themselves, for putting unwanted procedures of stupid medical insurances without any proper procedures in the benefits of proper human resources.
By the way, Julian I’m from Pakistan. Please do expose these 2 governments from Pakistan. One is PML-Nawaz League, and the other one is way too difficult level, PPP (Pakistan’s People’s Party). These are the oldest two groups governing around for many decades from now. And it’s high time, somebody should expose them as well. Please it’s my humble request as a human being EXPOSE BOTH OF THEM! Cheers!….
We should be thanking Mr. Assange for his patriotism to OUR country!!!! Not trying to bring charges against him!!!! He is a true patriot of the truth, and it has cost him his freedom.
You attack the Embassy too much.
The English, Swedish and Dutch police know we were not in Sweden on such and such date.
Linda Vogel Julian’s friend
And what about the Lawyers…
And mrs. Ny…
The reason Julian asked for help in Australia was her story of the rape.
Here is a human being that is fearless in his quest to uncover damaging truths about government. But the government wants to hide the truth. Mercy and justice to Julian Assange.