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The world's leading experts on arbitrary detention note the continuing and intensifying violations of Julian Assange's rights as he languishes in a UK high-security prison on 'a minor bail violation'. Why aren't any in the UK media making these points? ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
Assange was jailed for 12 months even though the bail-related bond 'has been lost in favour of the British Government, and Mr Assange was still detained after violating the bail which, in any case should not stand after the [UN's] Opinion [against his detention] was issued'
The panel: 'It is equally worth noting that that [the Swedish] prosecutor did not press any charges against Mr Assange and that in 2017, after interviewing him in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, she discontinued investigations and brought an end to the case'
'Mr Assange has been detained since 11 April 2019 in Belmarsh prison, a high-security prison, as if he were convicted for a serious criminal offence. This treatment appears to contravene the principles of necessity and proportionality envisaged by the human rights standards'
