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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Sues Ecuador For 'Violating His Rights' (sky.com)
Julian Assange is suing Ecuador's government for violating his "fundamental rights and freedoms," despite the fact he is still being sheltered in the country's UK embassy. From a report: It comes after Ecuador cut off communications for Mr Assange, who has been living inside the country's London embassy for more than six years. Baltasar Garzon, a lawyer for WikiLeaks, has arrived in Ecuador to launch the case, which is expected to be heard next week in a domestic court. WikiLeaks claims Mr Assange's access to the outside world has been "summarily cut off" and says Ecuador has threatened to remove the protection he has had since being given political asylum. The site said Ecuador's government has refused to allow a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner and prevented several meetings with Mr Assange's lawyers. A statement said: "Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community."
Ecuador should sue him back over the way he is mistreating his cat.
At this point it's unlikely he would be killed. He's now effectively been locked up. Why not just go to court and get it over with? He basically imprisoned himself and may end up still having to serve time if he leaves. What's the point?
Ecuador can show him the exits to the embassy and how to use them if Mr. Assange believes his proverbial 'living in his parent's basement without free wifi' is tantamount to human rights violations. He's more than free to walk out the door and find out what real prison looks like.
He's trying to get thrown out.
If I were the ambassador there, my response to this would be contact the London Met police, say he's coming out in 30 minutes, and then have the two burliest members of staff toss his arse into the street.
There is, I suspect, a reason I'm not an ambassador.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
When you are caught between a rock and a hard place, sue the hard place! ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
IIRC he hid because he was afraid Sweden would extradite him to the US, not because he was unwilling to face charges in Sweden which, as you say, most likely wouldn't have gone anywhere.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Glenn Greenwald has been one of the most ardent Assange supporters from the get-go. I wonder what he is going to have to say about this.
Assange used to be someone to admire but those days seem long over. It is one thing to have principles but had he just given himself up, gone to Sweden (likely), got tried for bad sex (less likely), convicted (even less likely) spent time in prison (totally unlikely) at the maximum sentence he would have been free and clear for over two years now.
Prone to bad decisions.
Yes, except characterizing penetration of an unconscious person after she had repeatedly told him no while awake as "bad sex" is more than a bit misleading.
You shouldn't shit where you sleep.
I guess that all these years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy are starting to take their toll. Soon the guy will be eager to take his chances vis-a-vis US extradition, rather than carrying on wasting his life.
Exactly. They should just boot his attention-whoring ass out.
And this has what to do with the topic of this story?
Assange is an ungrateful prick. He never acknowledges the price Ecuador is paying for him; he just constantly gives them a black eye for their pains.
It sucks when you have to defend assholes.
In the unlikely case that there was still someone out there who doubted that he's a big flaming narcissist, here you go.
Iâ(TM)m not the previous poster, but the allegation is in fact an allegation. Whether itâ(TM)s spurious or not is not proven. If I recall the context, the charges were that he took advantage of women who were already sleeping next to him. The question of whether he did this or not... whether it was consensual or not, etc... are all charges which need would have to pass through the justice system. It is possible we would not have the ability to find the facts of the cases even through due process, but just because the justice systems are far from perfect, it doesnâ(TM)t mean they should be discounted as useless or irrelevant.
If the charges are found to be spurious following due process or guilt canâ(TM)t be proven beyond reasonable doubt, then it is fair to call them spurious. But at least one (I believe it was two) women have brought charges and if nothing else Assange was foolish enough to place himself in a situation where such charges could be raised (spurious or not).
So, I think itâ(TM)s fair to call the man an idiot that he would, while under such public scrutiny and while facing a risk of extradition to countries hostile towards him, he would not behaved more appropriately as to avoid the risks of further charges.
...aught to be put in the same cell together and they can tell each other how great thy are...
nothing to see here - move along
Ecuador has not given him the boot after all this time.
;)
Just my 2 cents
As a show of solidarity with Julian Assange, I will be suing my mother for violating my rights by insisting that I get a job and move out.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The real problem is Assange is a prisoner of his own paranoia.
While the Wikileaks annoyed countries, they care more about the people who leaked the information to him, more then him being the one who posted it. Heck after it was posted on Wikileaks the main stream media picked it up and publicly rebroadcasted it.
In terms of US Freedom he helped out Trump so he is good.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Assange is like a bad referee in sports. When a referee does their job properly, few know their name. The game recap focuses on how the players and coaches performed.
When a referee does an excessively poor job (e.g., bringing unnecessary attention to themselves), the game recap becomes about the ref. The performance of the players becomes secondary.
Assange is/was a bad referee for Wikileaks. He made the focus all about him, not the confidential information. Seems Ecuador is finally learning how much Assange desires the spotlight.
No, he _claimed_ that's why he hid. Anybody with intelligence can do some research and find out how likely that scenario is compared to the scenario he didn't even mention - that the UK could extradite him to the US. Why he would choose to go to prison of his own choice? Mental illness? Wanting to become some kind of (living) martyr? Realizing that a guilty verdict for rape could be a problem?
None of those makes sense, but him being afraid of extradition to (and sentenced to death in) the USA makes the least sense of them all. Absolute bullshit!
Maybe #MeToo would be more effective at getting him to resign himself LOL
I mean, he can send and reveive phisical letters so... what's he complaining about?
I mean, Internet is only to send and receive information which he can do physically (sending DVDs for example or handwritten letters).
Slower? Yes, but he can communicate. Internet, as far as I know, has never ever been part of the Human Rights as it's a "medium" and not the "only medium" to use one if the rights there written.
I'm guessing something about Clinton, Cheney, 9/11, Clinton again, Morgan Stanley, the Democrats, neo-conservatism, Clinton again, the CIA, 9/11, Clinton again, some spurious accusation of hypocrisy against the ACLU, Clinton again, CIA, banksters, Clinton.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Except what you just repeated is propaganda based on false allegations. It's not like false flags have ever occured.
Yeah because you were there are no exactly what happened right? Or are you just taking it on faith of the great god Assange that his word is holy and true and any disbeliever is a heretic?
That's why we have a judicial system, you get tried, rather than just declaring yourself innocent and running away like a crying kid.
Of course I'm forgetting these mysterious powers who would somehow salt him away through the real process, despite their failures to do so when they could easily have done during the many times when it's been pretty publicly known where he was, they chose some massive international ruse relying on multiple countries, countless officials etc. A theory worthy of David Icke.
He is a guest. If he doesn't like the rules of the house, throw is ass out.
And I wouldn't let him have guests, a cat, a phone or any computing devices either. If he wants the rights of a free person, there's the door. Go, be free.
PuLEEEEEEASE. Throw his ass out.
Yes, except characterizing penetration of an unconscious person after she had repeatedly told him no while awake as "bad sex" is more than a bit misleading.
Except that didn't happen.
The crime he's accused of is lying about using a condom in order to get consent. Which is why his supporters flip out over that being illegal in Sweden and legal in other countries.
but letting him go would send the wrong message. The goal is to wreck his life, which we've done and will continue to do.
/. since the election. Pre 2016 there were a ton of his defenders around here. Nowadays they're no where to be found...
That said, he's part of what gave us Donald Trump. I don't think he thought that one through. Hillary was no friend of his, but neither was Trump, and by helping Trump slide into the whitehouse he's pissed off the lefties who defended him. I've certainly noticed that they've made themselves scarce on
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Yeah because you were there are no exactly what happened right?
Anyone with an inkling of the history of america knows it's true, people like you are laughable morons. Most of todays slashdot commentariat proves americans are gullible idiots. It was obvious to anyone with half a clue you piss off and do a data dump on the war crimes of the biggest empire on the planet, that's going to piss a lot of people at the top the fuck off enough to come after your ass.
You don't see the world as it is see the science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Sweden dropped the charges more than a year ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/me...
The charges for the crime he was accused of were dropped by Swedish prosecutors nearly a year and a half ago.
which is what Assange is doing. Ecuador kept his butt out of jail as an asylum seeking guest. well, governments change, and wot ya know, they're tired of him. at least he hasn't been kicked out yet. keep this up, it will happen. he will meet the Crown, and best have a good lawyer with him to get mere deportation.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
No, two sets of charges were dropped. There is still one case against him.
Right so what you are saying is that because that is a possibility, it cannot therefore ever be possible that Assange can commit any crime ever, because anything he's accused of must be because of your assumed conspiracy.
Of course, whatever you say. Assange has now by his actions of revealing secrets which piss people off been elevated to a god who can do no wrong, because any allegation is not because it could be true, but because of this other stuff. Nice position to be in.
Laughable morons? I guess your overall self righteousness in terms of seeing everybody else view as result of being a Moron is what separates you from the rest of us. Please pat yourself on the back and feel smug about what a genius you are that your response to an alternate view is such an intelligent analysis.
... doesn't respect his rights as much as he'd like. Poor snowflake.
So while Assange claims he is essentially a prisoner because of a big cache of information he passed along, the person who provided that cache is now out of military prison and has not "disappeared" or been charged with civilian crimes.
since he helped give us Trump, but the US has most certainly _not_ withdrawn from the world stage under Trump. Not even a little. We've expanded our troop deployments, we've threatened Iran without provocation or cause, we've continued to assist Saudi Arabia in their war in Yemen (our bombs just blew up a school bus there) and we keep dicking with South America (there's evidence we're helping prop up that right wing insurgency in Brazil since the leftists are threatening US corporate economic interests down there).
I'm not saying this is on Trump per se. Obama did the same thing. So did Bush (both of 'em). So did Clinton. But I _am_ saying Trump loudly promised to stop this crap and then kept doing it.
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Yes, except characterizing penetration of an unconscious person after she had repeatedly told him no while awake as "bad sex" is more than a bit misleading.
Except that didn't happen.
The crime he's accused of is lying about using a condom in order to get consent. Which is why his supporters flip out over that being illegal in Sweden and legal in other countries.
Well, the thing that really makes it amusing is that a lot of the people flipping out over it being illegal in Sweden live in countries where it probably is also illegal, or is likely to become illegal due to changes in the law or in how it's interpreted.
No, they just treat all off-topic posts equally.
Equality for all!
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very definition of the word "Chutzpah". After being given refuge, food and shelter, we should sue our benefactors for making us clean up after ourselves! (How dare they!)
Yes, except characterizing penetration of an unconscious person after she had repeatedly told him no while awake as "bad sex" is more than a bit misleading.
Except that didn't happen.
The crime he's accused of is lying about using a condom in order to get consent. Which is why his supporters flip out over that being illegal in Sweden and legal in other countries.
As others have pointed out, there were two events:
First, he was accused of lying about using a condom in order to get consent. Specifically, he's accused of intentionally removing the condom during sex, knowing that she had explicitly refused consenting to sex without a condom. That charge, however, has been dropped.
Second, he was accused of penetrating an unconscious person without a condom after she had explicitly refused to have sex with him without a condom before she went to sleep. That charge is rape, and is still pending. And it's not legal in most other countries, notably England, which is why the UK High Court refused his request to deny extradition. It's also rape here in the US. If someone says no, you don't get to wait until they're asleep and then say "lol, you didn't say no now!"
Name one freedom you no longer have in the US. And be specific. Show some intelligence in your answer.
A specious way to pose the question. But since you asked, it's not so much a matter of what freedoms you no longer have, but rather what freedoms are under attack.
Here's a sample. Google can find you others.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.axios.com/united-n...
https://www.axios.com/trump-ad...
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
What an ungrateful son of a bitch! I want the Ecuador embassy to kick him out to the street of London, get kicked around a whole lot then arrested by UK police for the rape charges they've been wanting to press, then extradited to the US for espionage and receive life sentence without parole.
I have a sneaking suspicion the original post and the rebuttal came from the same source.