Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt"

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 19, 2012 @02:24AM from the can't-we-all-just-get-along? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After a statement from a window at an upper floor from the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange '... called on US President Barack Obama to "do the right thing" and for his government to "renounce its witch hunt against Wikileaks."'" However, the U.S. issued the following statement regarding Assange's stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy, "The United States is not a party to the 1954 OAS Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and does not recognize the concept of diplomatic asylum as a matter of international law,"

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Re:Not recognized? by jez9999 · 2012-08-19 13:21 · Score: 1, Troll

I lost family in Czechoslovakia because they committed the crime of wanting to decide who to vote for and what church to go to.
Half a million people (at least) have lost their liberty in the US because they committed the crime of possessing marijuana. Why is that more serious than the crimes you mentioned?

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