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Damien Gayle
Wednesday 10 February 2016 07.24 EST
... According to the pollsters, 66% of British people agree with the statement that Assange has been voluntarily avoiding lawful arrest by choosing to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy since June 2012. Just 14% fewer than one in six of respondents said they agreed that Assange had been deprived of his liberty for an unacceptable length of time. One in five said they didnt know ...
YouGovs polling also found that the British public are increasingly negative towards Assange. His net favourability the difference between favourable and unfavourable scores has fallen from -11 in 2013 to -26 in 2016 ...
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/10/poll-finds-most-britons-reject-un-panel-finding-on-julian-assange
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)Nicholas Watt and Rowena Mason
Wednesday 10 February 2016 09.06 EST
... What he should do is come out of that embassy and face the arrest warrant that is against him, Cameron told MPs. He is being asked to stand trial in Sweden, a country with a fair reputation for justice and he should bring to an end this whole sorry saga ...
Cameron said: I think this was a ridiculous decision. Youve got a man here with an outstanding allegation of rape against him. He barricaded himself into the Ecuadorian embassy and yet claims he was arbitrarily detained. The only person who detained himself was himself ...
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/10/julian-assange-submit-swedish-arrest-warrant-david-cameron
MADem
(135,425 posts)He repaid kindnesses with disdain.
randome
(34,845 posts)In a way, he has sounded like one of the Bundy Bunch: "The evil government is keeping me from using women the way I want!"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)outlining their disagreement with the working group opinion, but I think the chances are slim. It is IMO a real tragedy that the three novices on the Working Group have issued such a careless decision, because arbitrary detention is a genuine, serious, and widespread human rights issue; and this decision undermines the credibility of international approaches to the problem. The whole saga here begins to look rather like a systematic attack on the entire system of international diplomacy, beginning with the unprincipled and unfiltered mass release of millions of diplomatic cables, continuing with the misuse of embassy-privileges to shelter an international fugitive, and now involving a curious misuse of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which merely discredits global cooperation on genuine human rights concerns
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)doesn't necessarily mean I should, especially on an issue like this, where polls also indicate general ignorance among people about current events and important issues.
From further down in your article:
It is believed that a secret grand jury investigation is preparing to charge him over publishing secret details of US diplomacy and the brutal methods used by its armed forces in the Iraq war. The US government under Barack Obama has already targeted a number of whistleblowers with espionage charges, including Chelsea Manning, the US army intelligence analyst who leaked millions of documents to WikiLeaks and is now serving a 35-year sentence