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Nations that support the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US will no longer be states based on the rule of law if the handover eventually happens, Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin argued in a Telegram post on Monday.
The situation around the detained whistleblower is an example of the lies, double standards, and spite on display from Washington, London, and Brussels, Volodin added.
Assange, now in his fifth year in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London despite having been convicted of no crime, faces 175 years in prison in the US for publishing documents via WikiLeaks that detailed alleged illegal US actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere.
The published records and documents prove Washington’s involvement in coups and the instigation of wars, Volodin pointed out in his post.
Assange “exposed Washington’s crimes. And the ‘world hegemon’ does not tolerate this kind of thing, destroying all those who disagree,” Volodin argued. The whistleblower would have been designated a ‘fighter for truth and freedom’ had his revelations concerned Russia or China rather than the US, according to the MP.
The fact that a person remains in a high-security prison without proven guilt “is nothing short of a scandal,” the lawmaker added. - RT
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