El of the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights hopes that all parties will ensure the right to a fair trial to Julian Assange, arrested Thursday in the ndres.” We hope that the authorities concerned to ensure Assange case to be treated with due process and in accordance with their right to a fair trial, also when it comes to any extradition,”said the spokeswoman for that agency, that agency, Ravina Shamdasani , who said that they are closely following the situation of WikiLeaks.Los founder Assange lawyers anticipated that the journalist will fight against the extradition to the United States, which is facing charges of having participated in a conspiracy with a former analyst Army, Chelsea Manning, to disclose confidential material. So far, the High Commissioner of the United Nations for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, has not acted on the arrest of Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, although if several rapporteurs of United Nations have done so.
Responsible for the defense of the right to privacy, Joe Cannataci, held that the detention by British authorities will not change their plans to try to meet with him to discuss a possible infringement of their freedoms. In the meantime, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Agnès Callamard, also said that the decision of Ecuador to facilitate the arrest of Assange WikiLeaks founder put at risk of serious human rights violations. Assange was refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London from June 2012 to avoid his extradition to Sweden, where he is accused for alleged sex crimes.
In 2010, WikiLeaks reported more than 90 000 classified documents related to U.S. military action in Afghanistan, near 400 000 secret documents on the war in Iraq and 250 000 diplomatic cables from the State Department North American.
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