Nils
Melzer, de
speciale VN-rapporteur voor marteling en andere wrede, onmenselijke
of vernederende behandelingen of straffen,
heeft de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Zweden en Ecuador beschuldigd van de
jarenlange wrede, inhumane en ontaarde behandeling van Julian Assange..... Anders gezegd: deze landen zijn verantwoordelijk voor het straffen van Julian Assange..... Kortom: Julian Assange, de oprichter van WikiLeaks, is psychisch gemarteld, tijdens zijn in feite
jarenlange gevangenschap in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade in Londen, waarvoor de genoemde landen mede hoofdverantwoordelijken zijn.....
Op de
webside van de hoge commissaris voor mensenrechten van de VN (OHCHR), stelde
Melzer, dat
hij in de 20 jaar dat hij voor de VN
werkt nooit heeft gezien hoe een groep van 'democratische staten'
samenwerkten om één persoon zo lang moedwillig te isoleren, te
demoniseren en te misbruiken en dat met weinig of geen inachtneming
van de menselijke waardigheid en de (internationale) wetgeving......... Deze behandeling van Assange kan volgens Melzer dan ook niet anders worden gezien dan als geestelijke
foltering.......
Gelukkig
beginnen de reguliere media in te binden met hun spugen op Assange,
men schijnt wakker te zijn geschrokken van wat Assange te wachten
staat en dat zou gezien de laatste verzonnen aanklachten van de VS
zelfs tot de doodstraf kunnen leiden..... Iedereen met 2 of meer hersencellen begrijpt dat deze zaak z'n weerslag zal hebben op de hele internationale journalistiek, hoe volgzaam en fout reguliere media ook handelen, hetzelfde zou hen kunnen overkomen...*
Lees het
volgende artikel van Joe Lauria, eerder gepubliceerd op ConsortiumNews en door mij over genomen van Anti-Media (en geeft
het door mensen, het gros van het volk is jarenlang voorgelogen over
Assange en diens verblijf in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade..... Gehersenspoeld door media en politici denken ze echt dat Assange een
uiterst gevaarlijke figuur is voor de westerse democratie, die
zonder na te denken overheidsdocumenten publiceerde en zonder te kijken
of daar bestaande mensen het slachtoffer van zouden kunnen worden >> zoals je wellicht weet, ook dat laatste een enorme leugen.......)
UN Torture Report: “Demonized” Assange Has Faced “Psychological Torture”
May
31, 2019 at 8:15 am
Written
by Consortium
News
(CN) — The
UN special rapporteur on torture has issued a stinging rebuke to the
United States, Great Britain, Sweden and Ecuador for “deliberately”
exposing WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange to years of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment,” which can only be described as “psychological
torture.”
“In
20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political
persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up
to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for
such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the
rule of law,” Nils Melzer said in a statement published
on the UN High Commissioner for Human Right’s website on Friday.
“The collective persecution of Julian Assange must end here and
now!”
“The
evidence is overwhelming and clear,” Melzer said. “Mr.
Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years,
to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be
described as psychological torture.”
Melzer
went on:
“In the course of the past nine years, Mr. Assange has been exposed to persistent, progressively severe abuse ranging from systematic judicial persecution and arbitrary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy, to his oppressive isolation, harassment and surveillance inside the embassy, and from deliberate collective ridicule, insults and humiliation, to open instigation of violence and even repeated calls for his assassination.”
Melzer:
Collective persecution must end. (UN Photo)
Melzer
visited Assange at Belmarsh prison in London on May 9 with two
doctors, expert in recognizing potential torture victims, who
examined the WikiLeaks founder.
Melzer’s statement makes no mention of Assange having
been hospitalized in
the prison after he was unable to converse with his Swedish lawyer.
Melzer
said:
“It was obvious that Mr. Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been exposed to for many years.
Most importantly, in addition to physical ailments, Mr. Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.”
Fears Possible Torture in U.S.
The
UN rapporteur said Assange’s human rights could be further
threatened with extradition to the United States to face 18 charges,
including 17 under the Espionage Act.
“My
most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange would
be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights,
including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and
the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment,” said Melzer.
He
said he was “particularly alarmed” by the Espionage Act charges.
“This may well result in a life sentence without parole, or
possibly even the death penalty, if further charges were to be added
in the future,” said Melzer.
The
rapporteur expressed deep concern that the Trump administration is
criminalizing journalism.
“Since
2010, when Wikileaks started publishing evidence of war crimes and
torture committed by US forces, we have seen a sustained and
concerted effort by several States towards getting Mr. Assange
extradited to the United States for prosecution, raising serious
concern over the criminalisation of investigative journalism in
violation of both the US Constitution and international human rights
law,” the rapporteur said.
Herald Gets Confidential Report
The Sydney
Morning Herald, quoting
from the confidential report that Melzer sent to the British
government on Monday as well as from an interview with
rapporteur, reported
:
“[Assange] is really something I’ve never seen in 20 years,” Melzer said. “I’ve seen atrocities in war areas that were physically more horrible but I’ve never seen a single person pursued so relentlessly and with so little foundation.
“[When I saw him] I immediately compared him to some of the graver cases in interrogation prisons in terms of his psychological reaction patterns. That’s what alarmed me so much.” He said Assange’s treatment was “very close to the intentional, purposeful infliction of coercive measures to try to break him”.
He appeared “extremely agitated and preoccupied,” Melzer said. “He asked a lot of questions and he would jump around, he was so preoccupied with everything he can’t even compute my answers any more.
“There were episodes of this, then he was part of the conversation as normal, then again he would enter into this agitated state. I have seen with other victims of psychological torture that would happen.”
Melzer
also blasted the government of Assange’s native Australia. He told
the newspaper, “Australia is a glaring absence in this case.
They’re just not around, as if Assange was not an Australian
citizen. That is not the correct way of dealing with that.”
A
spokesperson for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade told the Herald: “We reject any suggestion by the UN Special
Rapporteur on Torture that the Australian Government is complicit in
psychological torture or has shown a lack of consular support for Mr
Assange.”
Britain’s
foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, condemned Melzer for his report. Hunt
said it was “wrong” for the UN rapporteur to interfere with
British justice by uttering “inflammatory accusations.”
This is wrong. Assange chose to hide in the embassy and was always free to leave and face justice. The UN Special Rapporteur should allow British courts to make their judgements without his interference or inflammatory accusations. standard.co.uk/news/uk/julian…
Julian Assange showing symptoms of torture, says UN expert
Melzer replied to Hunt:
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* Zie: 'Media wakker geschrokken en ontwaken in Assange nachtmerrie'
Zie ook:
'Het meest gecensureerde nieuws van deze eeuw: het proces tegen journalist Julian Assange'
'Belangrijk account voor de verdediging Julian Assange geblokkeerd door Twitter'
'Britse regering weigert RT en Sputnik voor conferentie over persvrijheid..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'Julian Assange: Speciaal VN rapporteur martelen heeft grote twijfels bij onafhankelijkheid rechter'
'Julian Assange weer vervolgd wegens 'verkrachting', waarvoor het Zweedse OM eerder geen bewijs kon vinden......'
'Dag van Persvrijheid: Assange wordt zoveel mogelijk uitermate hypocriet gemeden door de pers'
'Julian Assange (brekend nieuws) veroordeeld tot 50 weken gevangenisstraf......'
'Julian Assanges vervolging is de genadeklap voor klokkenluiders en (echte) journalisten'
'Jan Kuitenbrouwer ('journalist'): Assange is een charlatan en WikiLeaks heeft beelden van de moord op 2 journalisten gemanipuleerd'
'Chelsea Manning blijft voor onbepaalde tijd in de gevangenis'
'VN heeft eerder de 'detentie' van Assange al als onwettig verklaard'
'Brekend nieuws: EU neemt internet censuurwet aan......'
'VS Navy SEALs werden gewaarschuwd geen oorlogsmisdaden te melden' (zo valt er niets te lekken naar WikiLeaks, of de reguliere media....)
En gerelateerd:
'Robert Mueller lijdt aan dementie en maakt van Russiagate een nog belachelijker verhaal' (en zie de links in dat bericht aangaande Russiagate, anders dan de hier getoonde links)
'Russiagate: VS en buitenlandse geheime diensten hebben de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 gemanipuleerd'
'Russiagate: nog overtuigd van bestaan daarvan? Lees dit!'
'Russiagate gelovigen krijgen nieuwe klap: WikiLeaks kreeg de DNC mails van een klokkenluider, niet van Rusland.....'
'Russiagate: VS en buitenlandse geheime diensten hebben de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 gemanipuleerd'
