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Australia's providing no pressure to get him released. The US considers him enemy number one. UK has no reason to not extradite him and something to gain from

Australia's providing no pressure to get him released. The US considers him enemy number one. UK has no reason to not extradite him and something to gain from doing so.

StavrosK 6y ago
> UK has no reason to not extradite him and something to gain from doing so. No reason apart from the popular opinion of them that will decline if they extradite a journalist to a country that has routinely committed war crimes, torture, murder and other atrocities. I can't help but think that everyone would react much worse if he were being extradited to China, yet what's the difference?
- kmlx 6y ago
  which journalist are you referring to? also, you see no difference between China and the US? care to explain how you came to such an absurd conclusion?
  - cmroanirgo 6y ago
    A cursory Google search will reveal that Mr Assange has been awarded many times for Journalism, in many parts of the world. The full list can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Honours_and_awards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Honours_and_awa... > 2008, The Economist New Media Award. 2009, Amnesty International UK Media Awards. 2010, Time Person of the Year, Reader's Choice. 2010, Sam Adams Award. 2010, Le Monde Readers' Choice Award for Person of the Year. 2011, Free Dacia Award. 2011, Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal. 2011, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. 2011, Voltaire Award for Free Speech. 2012, Big Brother Award Italy 2012 "Hero of Privacy". 2013, Global Exchange Human Rights Award, People's Choice. 2013, Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts. 2013, New York Festivals World's Best TV & Films Silver World Medal. 2014, Union of Journalists in Kazakhstan Top Prize. 2019, GUE/NGL Galizia prize. 2019, Gavin MacFadyen award. 2019, Catalan Dignity Prize. 2020, Stuttgart Peace Prize.
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    I see no material difference in how he'll be treated in either country. AFAIK the US still has the death penalty, does it not?
    - MacsHeadroom 6y ago
      Not for anything Assange can be charged with. But the US routinely cages people in windowless concrete boxes until death for any number of things, even tax evasion. Lifelong solitary confinement is considered equivalent or worse across the civilized world. In the US it's routine for people who challenge the status quo, for whom a legal reason can always be found even if it's unrelated to the original pretext for their arrest.
      - ric2b 6y ago
        The US has secret courts, secret laws and blacksites where torture and murder is allowed with no consequences. I don't think it's a given that Assange would never be transported to one of them.

Australia's providing no pressure to get him released. The US considers him enemy number one. UK has no reason to not extradite him and something to gain from doing so.

StavrosK 6y ago

> UK has no reason to not extradite him and something to gain from doing so. No reason apart from the popular opinion of them that will decline if they extradite a journalist to a country that has routinely committed war crimes, torture, murder and other atrocities. I can't help but think that everyone would react much worse if he were being extradited to China, yet what's the difference?

kmlx 6y ago
which journalist are you referring to? also, you see no difference between China and the US? care to explain how you came to such an absurd conclusion?
- cmroanirgo 6y ago
  A cursory Google search will reveal that Mr Assange has been awarded many times for Journalism, in many parts of the world. The full list can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Honours_and_awards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Honours_and_awa... > 2008, The Economist New Media Award. 2009, Amnesty International UK Media Awards. 2010, Time Person of the Year, Reader's Choice. 2010, Sam Adams Award. 2010, Le Monde Readers' Choice Award for Person of the Year. 2011, Free Dacia Award. 2011, Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal. 2011, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. 2011, Voltaire Award for Free Speech. 2012, Big Brother Award Italy 2012 "Hero of Privacy". 2013, Global Exchange Human Rights Award, People's Choice. 2013, Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts. 2013, New York Festivals World's Best TV & Films Silver World Medal. 2014, Union of Journalists in Kazakhstan Top Prize. 2019, GUE/NGL Galizia prize. 2019, Gavin MacFadyen award. 2019, Catalan Dignity Prize. 2020, Stuttgart Peace Prize.
- StavrosK 6y ago
  I see no material difference in how he'll be treated in either country. AFAIK the US still has the death penalty, does it not?
  - MacsHeadroom 6y ago
    Not for anything Assange can be charged with. But the US routinely cages people in windowless concrete boxes until death for any number of things, even tax evasion. Lifelong solitary confinement is considered equivalent or worse across the civilized world. In the US it's routine for people who challenge the status quo, for whom a legal reason can always be found even if it's unrelated to the original pretext for their arrest.
    - ric2b 6y ago
      The US has secret courts, secret laws and blacksites where torture and murder is allowed with no consequences. I don't think it's a given that Assange would never be transported to one of them.