Tomorrow marks six years since Julian Assange walked into the Ecuadorian embassy to seek asylum. It is now over two years since the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that the detention of Julian Assange violated Articles 9 and 10 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and Articles 7, 9(1), 9(3), 9(4), […]
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Continuing Government evasiveness
June 9, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Media reports that Australian government officials have visited Julian Assange in his Ecuadorian embassy refuge in London is welcome news. But the Government still won’t say whether or not it agrees with the 2016 findings of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. On 6 February 2016, referring to that report, Foreign Minister Julie […]
