![]() ![]() It does not matter.Īpril 5, 2010: Julian Assange addressing National Press Club in Washington about WikiLeaks’ release of “Collateral Damage” video showing the wanton killing of civilians by U.S. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. Toussaint L’Ouverture, who led the Haitian independence movement, the only successful slave revolt in human history, was physically destroyed in the same manner, locked by the French in an unheated and cramped prison cell and left to die of exhaustion, malnutrition, apoplexy, pneumonia and probably tuberculosis.Īssange committed empire’s greatest sin. The executioners have not yet completed their grim work. He has repeatedly called the suicide hotline run by the Samaritans because he thought about killing himself “hundreds of times a day.” Prison authorities found “half of a razor blade” hidden under his socks. He has spent weeks in the medical wing of Belmarsh. He has been observed pacing his cell until he collapses, punching himself in the face and banging his head against the wall. He takes antidepressant medication and the antipsychotic quetiapine. His steady physical and psychological deterioration has led to hallucinations and depression. “His eyes were out of sync, his right eyelid would not close, his memory was blurry,” his fiancé Stella Morris said of the stroke. The 10 years he has been detained, seven in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and nearly three in the high-security Belmarsh prison, were accompanied with a lack of sunlight and exercise and unrelenting threats, pressure, anxiety and stress. 27, has been condemned to death should not come as a surprise. That Assange, who is in precarious physical and psychological health and who suffered a stroke during court video proceedings on Oct. Let us acknowledge that the goal of these executioners, who discussed kidnapping and assassinating Assange, has always been his annihilation. Ken McCallum, the director general of the U.K. Assistant U.S, Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia Gordon Kromberg. ![]() Crown Prosecutors James Lewis, Clair Dobbin and Joel Smith. Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett and Justice Timothy Victor Holroyde. Let us name Julian Assange’s executioners.
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