Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks, the best journalist in the world without a doubt and the one who has done the most to reveal the atrocious crimes of all the states in the world, has saved his life at least for the moment, because that's how it is, at last a small Victory came to him, Modest but very significant.
Last week the British justice granted a temporary pardon, if you want to see it that way, to the founder of Wikileaks after postponing its decision on a more than probable extradition to the United States, the opinion signed by judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson gives the authorities in Washington three weeks to guarantee that Julian could benefit from the first amendment and that he will not be sentenced to the death penalty.
What scenario opens up from here on out, we will see, but first let me tell you that although this is not a definitive victory, Julian Assange was saved from the worst, yes the worst, because if it had not been for this ruling he would have been extradited. last week to the United States where he would face 18 charges of espionage and computer intrusion against him, mostly false charges of course, since the only crime that Julian committed was revealing more than 700,000 confidential Pentagon documents that portrayed the genocide of more than one million people in the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Julian Assange was arrested for the first time in 2010 at the request of Sweden for a complaint about gender issues, which was already archived precisely due to lack of evidence, engineered by a CIA agent named Anna Ardin. However, in 2012 he took refuge. in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he was held for 7 years during the government of Rafael Correa, who in fact spied on him directly for the CIA.
Then his successor, the leftist Lenín Moreno, handed him over in a cowardly and low manner to the British repressive apparatus. Since then, Julian Assange has remained imprisoned in London's high-security Belmarsh prison, despite not having been convicted of any crime and has already been in captivity for 14 years. in the United Kingdom that have left their health at breaking point.
In March 2022, Boris Johnson's former home secretary Pretty Patel formally approved his extradition and since then the accused has sought permission to appeal, receiving one setback after another, the last of which was brought about by judge Jonathan Swift, yes Incredible as the satirist writer Last year, in a despicable sentence, the magistrate denied Julian Assange the possibility of continuing to appeal his extradition within the United Kingdom and gave the go-ahead for him to be handed over to White House partners, but when everything seemed lost, this arrived. somewhat unexpected judicial ruling.
After evaluating the parties' arguments for several weeks, Judges Sharp and Johnson concluded that an eventual appeal by Julian Assange could succeed in three of the nine arguments presented by his defense and offered the Biden government the opportunity to provide guarantees against those arguments. These guarantees include that Julian will be able to plead in his defense the first amendment of the US Constitution despite being Australian, that is, a foreigner, and that therefore the death penalty will not be imposed on him.
Washington will have three weeks to respond within a deadline that expires on April 16, what will happen then? Well, if they do not give sufficient guarantee, Julian Assange will be granted permission to appeal. If he does, the new performance will be examined in another hearing. provisionally set for May 20, with which the entire process will be postponed for at least two more months. In the event of a defeat, Julian Assange will only have to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to suspend the extradition, but the deadlines will be very fair.
After hearing the ruling last Tuesday, the journalist's wife and also his lawyer Estela Assange told the press that she gathered at the doors of the court that her husband is what we all know is a full-fledged political prisoner and that his case is a signal of threat to all communicators in the world, "if you expose the interests of the ruthless powerful people who promote Wars, they will come for you", however, the ruling of the English judges rejected this argument that had been presented at the February hearing, where Julian Assange could not attend because he was in poor health after a stroke and a letter from 100 medical experts to the UN warning that he suffers from all types of torture.
There, his defense lawyers said that the extradition of Julian Assange would be a flagrant denial of justice because the charges are related to the publication of thousands of classified documents that brought to light all the torments he has suffered, extraordinary deliveries of private information, even executions. extrajudicial and of course all kinds of war crimes.
The magistrates do not consider this a political persecution well clearly of course they are still Guardian dogs of the state and the commonwealth but it is not a good sign, in view of a complete acquittal although it is already giving some results, we will have to wait three weeks to find out how it continues this story, but at least a window of Hope opens.
