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Petition Urging UK Government To Not Hand Over Assange To US Gets Over 40,000 Signatures
Muhammad Irfan Published April 12, 2019 | 01:20 PM
Almost 41,000 people have signed a petition, launched by the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) and supported by actress and activist Pamela Anderson, calling on the UK government to not extradite recently arrested WikiLeaks founder and DiEM25 member Julian Assange to the United States
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th April, 2019) Almost 41,000 people have signed a petition, launched by the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) and supported by actress and activist Pamela Anderson, calling on the UK government to not extradite recently arrested WikiLeaks founder and DiEM25 member Julian Assange to the United States.
"Our demand both to the government of Ecuador and the government of the UK is: don't extradite Assange to the US!" the petition, published on the official website of the DiEM25, said.
The authors of the petition stress that Assange's leaks of classified US government data was in the public good and his arrest posed serious threat to the freedom of media worldwide.
"The sentence is already clear: if not the death penalty then life in a supermax prison and ill treatment like Chelsea Manning. The very extradition of Julian Assange to the United States would at the same time mean the final death of freedom of the press in the West," the petition added.
The petition was launched even before Assange was arrested on Thursday at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was taking refuge for the past seven years, fearing extradition.
The United States accuses Assange of conspiring with former US Army soldier Chelsea Manning and helping her break into a classified US government computer and leak data related to the United States' activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Guantanamo Bay prison, and US diplomatic cables.
Manning has been dishonorably discharged from the military and served several years in prison for the data leak. In March, she was once again placed in detention after refusing to testify about her release of classified material to WikiLeaks, saying she had already revealed everything during her trial.
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