{"id":848,"date":"2021-01-05T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etrendsnews.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2021-01-05T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:40:01","slug":"roger-waters-after-the-judge-rejected-assanges-extradition-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etrendsnews.com\/2021\/01\/05\/roger-waters-after-the-judge-rejected-assanges-extradition-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"“By his pledge NOW!” – said Roger Waters after the judge rejected Assange’s extradition, calling the decision “delay tactics” as a US appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roger Waters<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has demanded<\/strong> the immediate release of Julian Assange after a UK judge declined a US extradition request, telling RT the WikiLeaks founder\u2019s battle is far from over as Washington’s eyes an appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet the man begin to live,\u201d Waters said<\/strong> in an interview with RT on Monday, insisting Assange must be freed from custody at London\u2019s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison without delay, hours after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled against extradition for the anti-secrecy activist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, [Assange’s] supporters<\/strong>, have to be saying \u2018Bail. You have to bail him now. \u2019He\u2019s suffered way beyond any suffering that should\u2019ve been meted out to him for his one small bail infringement, which is his only crime under UK law. So bail him now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Waters <\/strong>said he was heartened by the \u201cscenes of jubilation\u201d outside the Old Bailey courthouse following the decision, he noted it was \u201cequally sobering\u201d to see that the United States<\/a> had already filed an appeal \u201cwithin minutes of the judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is clearly a delaying tactic,<\/strong>\u201d he said of the ruling, adding that lawyers representing Washington \u201cobviously\u201d knew of the judge’s plan to deny extradition \u201cbecause they have coached Judge Baraitser all the way through the entire\u2026 kangaroo court in London. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further cautioning against optimism, the rockstar said a US appeal could drag out Assange\u2019s case for \u201cat least another couple of years,\u201d while predicting that Baraitser would not grant him bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe claims he\u2019s a flight risk\u2026 She\u2019ll give all the usual reasons. The real reason is, of course, is they want to keep him confined until he dies. That\u2019s what they\u2019re hoping for, \u201dWaters said<\/strong>, adding that while Baraitser declined extradition, she nonetheless\u201c judged that the whole US case against Assange was correct, legally, that the United States won the argument. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let us not run away with the idea that somehow she found that Julian Assange was innocent of the charges brought against him by the United States<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Also: The hydro-bike, an electrifying idea<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waters said the implications of Assange’s case extend far beyond one journalist’s freedom, saying it symbolizes a \u201cbattle for the survival of the human race<\/strong>\u201d and the future of the Fourth Estate around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we allow the United States government to crucify a journalist on the grounds that he revealed war crimes by them, then we give up our access to the real world. We say \u2018OK, we will believe what you tell us,\u2019 \u201dhe said,<\/strong> adding that corporate media outlets continue to wage\u201c a very, very powerful propaganda campaign \u201dto\u201c smear Julian Assange. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After spending some seven years under political asylum at Ecuador’s embassy in London<\/strong> – where he stayed amid fears Washington would charge and extradite him over WikiLeaks’ publication of classified material – Assange’s protected status was revoked in 2019 following a new president’s to rise to power in that country \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was arrested by UK authorities almost immediately afterward on a years-old bail-skipping charge, prompting the US Department of Justice<\/strong> to unseal an 18-count indictment a<\/a>lleging that Assange conspired to \u201chack\u201d military computers in order to obtain confidential records, including the 2007 ‘Collateral Murder’ video, which shows a US Apache helicopter gunning down a crowd of civilians in Baghdad, among them two Reuters journalists. He has since awaited extradition in the Belmarsh Prison, where he remains even after the US request was shot down. A bail application is expected to be made on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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