Friday 12 April 2019

Who supports Julian Assange?


Below a list of selected public figures who have officially expressed support for Julian Assange: 

  • Rafael Correa, former Ecuador’s President

  • Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador Foreign Affairs Minister


  • Tulsi Gabbard, Iraq Veteran and US Presidential candidate


  • Mike Gravel, former Democrat Senator and running for Presidential elections

  • Diane Abbott, UK Labour MP

  • Edward Snowden, whistleblower exiled in Moscow



  • Noam Chomsky

  • John Pilger, investigative journalist and film-maker

  • Gleen Greenwald, former Guardian journalist reporting exclusively on Edward Snowden's revelations

  • Jeremy Scahill, investigative journalist and author of "Dirty Wars"

  • Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister


  • Richard Burgon, Labour MP

  • Kim Dotcom, Internet and political activist also blacklisted by the US DoJ


  • Evo Morales, President of Bolivia

  • Dinah PoKempner, General Counsel at Humans Right Watch

  • Kenneth Roth, Executive Director Humans Right Watch
  • Amnesty International Ireland

  • The Centre for Investigative Journalism



What are the most common anti-Assange positions and arguments?

On April 11, UK Foreign Secretary tweeted a very anti-Assange stance and praised Ecuador for its cooperation.


There were a few politicians who based their stance on arguments like Jeremy Hunt's "no one is above the law". Theresa May seemed to have received the same script too. As for Hilary Clinton, she said that Assange "must now answer for what he has done".  Her words are a very personal attack on Assange, who revealed Clinton's misconduct and corruption while she was running against Donald Trump for the presidential elections in 2016. In the meantime, Hilary Clinton's views and opinions are still credited in the political sphere and amplified by the Western mainstream media. There is a certain lack of logic when the "Madam Secretary", who illegally eliminated Bernie Sanders - her rightful concurrent to the White House in 2016 - keeps being given audience time. 

We witness to a shameless era where the law is a dangerous weapon at the hands of the powerful elite whereas the elite itself is blatantly unaccountable for their bloody crimes.

Unless we're talking about George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, John McCain, James Mattis, Elliott Abrams, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton... 

Revealing crimes is more dangerous than committing them. This is the message that must be understood and the reason why Julian Assange's persecution is nothing other than government oppression, intimidation and ultimately a bullet on free speech.


Please sign the petition to stop Assange’s extradition.

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