The UN's Assange detention ruling is ludicrous and should be ignored
Ben Ramanauskas at University of Cambridge
In a bewildering press conference last week, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued the abstruse statement that, "The Panel has decided that the detention <of Julian Assange> may be legal but it is arbitrary".
... it reveals a breathtaking ignorance on the part of the Working Group of UK law.
For example, the opinion of the Working Group suggests that the initial detention of Assange in Wandsworth Prison was ‘arbitrary’. This is a bewildering conclusion to draw given that the Met acted properly under UK law. If the Working Group’s reasoning was to be applied consistently then one could argue that anyone held in custody pre-trial was being arbitrarily ...
... let us not forget the real reason he knocked on the door of the Ecuadorian Embassy back in 2012. Assange is in the embassy not because he is a martyr for political freedom but rather because he does not want to face the potential consequences of the rape allegations made against him ...
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Opinion/2016-02-11/the_uns_assange_detention_ruling_is_ludicrous_and_should_be_ignored.html
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