Dear Mr MP,
I hope that you are keeping well. I am writing with regard to the case of award winning journalist Julian Assange.
The Home Secretary will soon have to make a decision on his extradition to the US where he faces a 175 year prison sentence if convicted. I am calling on you to support the call for the Home Secretary to oppose Mr. Assange's extradition.
Mr. Assange is in very poor mental and physical health. Last November he had a stroke in prison and has suffered from suicide ideation on several occasions. His wife and two small children are UK citizens. To send him to America would be to deprive his young children of their father.
After 3 years in a UK maximum security prison Mr. Assange has suffered tremendously. A mans life is at stake here. Please oppose his extradition on humanitarian grounds.
Thank you for your time in this matter.
Sincerely your constituent
Dear ...,
Thank you for your email and giving me your views.
As you know following a High Court ruling, Julian Assange, can now be extradited from the UK to the US. The ruling was made based on the judges' assessment of assurances offered by the US authorities about the conditions under which Mr Assange would be held.
Furthermore, it is my understanding that the Supreme Court has denied Mr Assange permission to appeal against extradition on the basis that his application did not raise "an arguable point of law". The case will now go back down to District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, the original judge who assessed the US's extradition request.
As you will be further aware, in 2019, the Home Secretary signed an extradition warrant, following a request by the US Department of Justice. In making this decision, the then Home Secretary had limitations on what could be considered, in line with the Crime and Courts Act 2013; judgments on human rights or health issues can only be made in court. As you would expect, the Home Secretary will give due regard to the courts' rulings in Mr Assange's case. I trust the process and as such I will not be calling for Mr Assange not to be extradited
Kind regards,
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Mr MP
Member of Parliament for ......
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Email: [email protected]
Dear Mr MP,
I asked you to consider Julian Assange's case on humanitarian grounds not on the legal merits of the case.
If we were to go down that road I would point out that the UK government, along with successive US administrations, are guilty of breaking international law due to the psychological torture inflicted upon Mr. Assange. That is not my opinion but that of Professor Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Along with 2 other experts on torture cases they each examined Mr. Assange separately in 2019 and collectively came to the same conclusion regarding the psychological torture of Mr. Assange.
To claim you trust the 'process' is rank hypocrisy. The same 'process' you trust so much ignored the illegal spying, conducted by American intelligence services of Mr. Assange's meetings with his lawyers in the Ecuadorian embassy. This information has been revealed in the Spanish court case against the UC Global company that conducted the spying on behalf of US intelligence services and has been repeatedly ignored by UK judges.
I go on to list yet more examples of how the legal process you trust so much has been totally corrupted in the case of Mr. Assange.
I suppose it was too much to expect humanitarian concerns to bother a Tory MP such as yourself. You support a Prime Minister who breaks the law with impunity and facilitates the sales of arms to the Saudi dictatorship which is conducting a genocidal war against the people of Yemen.
History will be a harsh judge on the current Tory regime and its flagrant abuses of both UK and international law.
Regards
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