UN calls for Julian Assange's release from UK high-security jail

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Source: The Guardian

UN calls for Julian Assange's release from UK high-security jail

UN experts say British government is breaching WikiLeaks publisher’s human rights

Damien Gayle
Fri 3 May 2019 13.26 BST First published on Fri 3 May 2019 13.25 BST

UN experts have called for Julian Assange to be released from prison and criticised the British government for breaching his human rights.

The WikiLeaks publisher was jailed for 50 weeks on Wednesday for breaking bail conditions imposed seven years earlier by seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The UN working group on arbitrary detention (WGAD) said it was deeply concerned by the “disproportionate sentence” imposed on Assange for violating the terms of his bail, which it described as a “minor violation”.

The group has twice previously called for Assange to be freed, after it judged his confinement to the Ecuadorian embassy by the threat of arrest should he leave amounted to arbitrary detention.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/03/un-calls-for-julian-assanges-release-from-high-security-uk-jail

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1. What's the UN have to say to don trump?

And the American gop? As they care so much about human rights. (I know they do.) Just wonder why there's a seemingly huge silence from the UN about what's happening in America. Slow rolling coup to oligarchy.

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2. Attention UN: Asshole-45's is separating families at southern border.