A U.N. panel has ruled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained since 2012.
Assange said he plans to leave Ecuador’s embassy in London where he has sought refuge for nearly four years, but British police say they remain obliged to arrest him. Assange is wanted in Sweden where faces a rape allegation, which he denies.
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February 6, 2016 6:22 AM
Is it a step towards "World government"? UN "comission" above the national law? The previous attempt to introduce international laws was Hamas`(!) demand to arrest Israeli PM in London. Ha Ha?
February 5, 2016 10:25 PM
You are not from the US so don't take that liberty. If you believe that someone who walks free because they wish to influence their beliefs on many people without standing in front of a court of justice, not a UN group that only apply their current feelings as they see fit, to serve only very liberally, then you don't understand the elements involved.
February 5, 2016 9:20 PM
Hey Julian! What have you been doing for the last 3 years? You have to ask yourself, was it worth it?
February 5, 2016 9:00 PM
Everyone needs to understand just how important this guy is and what he stands for. Americans especially, have no idea how much their freedoms are at stake and this guy showed us and the world just where our Gov't's loyalty lies. And it is NOT with it's people.
February 5, 2016 5:49 PM
I support what Assange does, but that kind of journalism comes with a responsibility to defend your journalistic decisions in court when necessary. The UN has reduced itself to irrelevancy by discarding the rule of law and issuing "feel good" rulings.
February 5, 2016 9:28 PM
It's amazing that so many people want to set Julian Assange free. No powerful or popular person should be allowed to get away with sexually assaulting women...not the President of the United States, not Bill Cosby...no one. Ask the women who accuse him of sexually assaulting them if they think he should go free just because he voluntarily walked into a foreign embassy. Is the UN going to rule that any potential criminal can walk into an embassy and three years later say "Set me free?" If they let Assange go free, then anyone can go free no matter what they have done.
February 5, 2016 3:08 PM
All he has done is expose bad things the country leaders, politicians and militaries have done around the world. Since when it is a crime to report the truth. I guess, as long as it is shameful for us - it is a crime and the person should be punished. Hypocrites to the core.
February 5, 2016 4:48 PM
The cost of police security alone in front of the embassy has tallied in the millions of dollars ever since Assange took refuge. Is this whole fiasco is REALLY about a 'rape' investigation in Sweden? If so, then wouldn't it be more efficient to just fly Swedish investigators over to the embassy where they could conduct their questioning and either decide to file real charges or not? There aren't even any charged filed against Assange?! Seems kinda shady to me.
February 5, 2016 2:44 PM
It is high time the U.S. military murderers plainly evidenced by the collateral damage videos released by Wikileaks are brought to justice. The gunning down of innocent civilians multiple times were war crimes of the worst magnitude. Wikileaks has performed a great and noble service to humanity exposing the corruption in our military.
February 5, 2016 2:12 PM
When has the UN ever been right about anything. Sad state of affairs when you have to rely on their ruling. Proof that Assane really is a bad guy.
February 5, 2016 1:05 PM
All he has to do is walk out the door!
February 5, 2016 12:56 PM
You should understand that the UN is not USA, Do all the laws of the UN find binding in all of USA?
February 5, 2016 12:21 PM
No one is MAKING him stay...he can leave anytime. He put himself there because he is too much a coward to face the charges against him. He smacks of a crook or politician thinking they are above the law. Walk away Julian...oh...but you are afraid you will get arrested eh? Stop your whining and face the charges .... or spend the rest of your life hiding. You are truly pathetic.
February 5, 2016 1:55 PM
The US and UK govt are pissed that their war crimes were revealed and so are desperate to take revenge. If the crimes were committed by any other country then he would have been a pampered boy here. The US does not recognize UN laws because then there would be a lot of war criminals here.
February 5, 2016 11:51 AM
I could not agree more. The traitor...
February 5, 2016 2:12 PM
UN does not distinguish itself by "rulings" like this. In first place he is not retrained. Further UK and Sweden are sovereign states who enforce their criminal laws with all required due process.
February 5, 2016 9:46 AM
I'd argue that the police that the UK has had watching the Ecuadorian embassy and the other people who've wasted time dealing with this matter have been arbitrarily detained. I'd say Assange and the Ecuadorians owe them compensation.
February 5, 2016 9:46 AM
Assange would fit in perfect at the train station in Cologne Germany. real nice guy that one is to the women
February 5, 2016 9:46 AM
I can think of several similar cases of compromising classified information, I would recommend prosecution in each case.