Julian Assange – azil politic în Ecuador
August 16, 2012
Fondatorul site-ului Wikileaks a câștigat bătălia pentru obținerea de azil politic, în încercarea de a evita extrădarea de către Marea Britanie către Suedia unde este acuzat de infracțiuni sexuale. Rafael Correa președintele Ecuatorului a aprobat ieri cererea acestuia de a i se acorda azil politic.
Conform declarațiilor șefului diplomației Ecuadorului, Ricardo Patino, “există temeri credibile că după extrădarea în Suedia, Assange ar putea fi în continuare extrădat în Statele Unite pentru a fi acuzat de spionaj și trădare. Și nu există motive să credem că în SUA acesta va avea parte de un proces corect și imparțial”. Ministrul Patino a precizat că aprobarea cererii de azil politic înaintate de către Julian Assange a avut loc “după o judicioasă analiză a documentelor și argumentelor prezentate în scris și oral, și în urma căreia am considerat că avem toate motivele să credem că Assange poate fi ținta unei persecuții cu caracter politic. Astfel de lucruri se pot întâmpla dacă nimeni nu se încumetă să ia măsuri de stopare la timp”.
Deasemenea ministrul de Externe ecuadorian a mărturisit jurnaliștilor că are anumite temeri că ambasada din Londra ar putea fi luată de asalt dacă Assange nu este preluat în scopul extrădării. „Ar putea să ne ia cu asalt ambasada, dacă Ecuadorul nu îl predă pe Julian Assange”, a spus Patino, fără a preciza însă cu exactitate către cine se îndreaptă acuzele sale. Însă presa din Quito (capitala Ecuadorului) a publicat în ultimele zile un extras dintr-un document remis de autoritățile din Regatul Unit în care se precizează că trebuie găsită o soluție negociabilă. Ulterior autoritățile londoneze s-au declara dezamăgite de decizia de acordare a azilului politic celui care a dat publicității zeci de mii se mesaje diplomatice și cu caracter militar, punând importanți lideri ai lumii în situații cel puțin stânjenitoare. Cel mai afectat însă din această “scurgere” de informații a fost Departamentul de Stat al US. De reținut că Bradley Manning, unul din cei care i-ar fi oferit fondatorului Wikileaks numeroase documente (scrise, audio și video) se află deja în arest, în prezent având loc multiple audieri în respectivul dosar și urmând ca procesul său să înceapă pe 21 septembrie 2012. Manning riscă condamnarea la închisoare pe viață.
Assange se află în sediul Ambasadei Ecuadorului la Londra de pe 19 iunie 2012, după ce Curtea Supremă de Justiţie din Marea Britanie i-a respins cererea de a redeschide apelul său contra cererii de extrădare a Suediei.
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I can say anything I want as long as I do no harm oterhs. This stuff wikileaks is doing is not supported by the freedom of speech. It violating this freedom. Freedom of speech doesn’t give the right to me to yell FIRE’ in a crowded theater when there isn’t one. It will cause harm to the people in that theater. By disclosing private documents of individuals and governments just for the sake of releasing them, you are endangering that person and that nation that are involved in such documents. When the government is breaking laws itself it is the duty of a person to get that information out to teach the people of what there government is doing wrong. However, what Wikileaks is doing is not for the freedom of information any and all governments needs to keep somethings secret as in when designing new weapons, to protect it and its citizens from a foreign power or terrorist groups. Wikileaks doesn’t seem to care about that, as all they seem to care about right is to my country of the United States. I wonder what Australia will do, if and when this Assange guy starts attacking them. About Iran, why isn’t he going after them for all the dirt they have? Because he is chicken and he knows it will mean signing his own death warrant. What Assangeand wikileaks is doing is not only reprehensible, unethical, immoral, and just plain wrong; I also feel it is illegal. It is hate speech pure and simple, that is obvious. What also is just as bad are the people who are leaking such info and the stupid idiots willing to publish it. Why is Assange now in hiding and why is there no way to find to contact wikileaks and tell him and the oterhs what a bunch of big jerks they are?Reply