Assange Will Never Have Fair Trial Chance In UK, US: Ex-Ecuadorian Consul

If the UK courtroom consents to his extradition Julian Assange could possibly be sentenced to 175 years behind bars.

London:

Former Ecuadorian Consul in London Fidel Narvaez advised Sputnik forward of Friday’s administrative listening to in Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition case that the whistleblower won’t ever get a good trial both within the UK or within the United States.

“There is plenty of evidence showing that Assange is a victim of a judicial persecution and that he is not getting a fair extradition trial here in the UK, and certainly will not have a fair trial in the US,” the previous diplomat advised Sputnik in a cellphone interview.

According to Narvaez, the judicial persecution towards the Australian journalist started even earlier than he was arrested on April 11, 2019, on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the place he loved political asylum for seven years to keep away from being despatched to Sweden till Ecuador’s present authorities handed him into the UK police final 12 months.

After being sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for leaping bail in a listening to that lasted lower than 15 minutes, Assange was despatched to maximum-security jail of Belmarsh in east London, the place visits by kinfolk and attorneys are usually restricted.

Narvaez stated that after the coronavirus pandemic struck, the Wikileaks founder has seen his solitary confinement circumstances worsened. The whistleblower has not been allowed to see his accomplice and sons, nor meet his attorneys in particular person, resulting from social distance restrictions.

It even took months for the jail authorities to provide him a pair of studying glasses and a radio receiver he had requested, Narvaez commented.

He additionally recalled that when the extradition trial started in February in a London courtroom, Assange was not allowed to sit down along with his attorneys, and was as an alternative compelled to observe the method from behind excessive partitions manufactured from glass panel.

“The British judicial system has been particularly hard on Assange, and not just me, but many international lawyers think that he is not being granted the right to a fair trial,” Narvaez confused.

Asked in regards to the new “superseding indictment” towards the Wikileaks founder that the US prosecution made public even earlier than formally presenting it to British courtroom coping with the extradition request, Narvaez known as it a “publicity stunt”.

“They [the US prosecutors] know they have nothing new. They just want to attract public attention,” he claimed.

The US federal authorities charged Assange with 18 prison fees associated to endangering US nationwide safety by conspiring to acquire and disclose labeled info.

If the UK courtroom consents to his extradition within the trial that is because of resume on September 7, Assange could possibly be sentenced to 175 years behind bars.

At the final administrative listening to held on July 27, Assange appeared by video hyperlink from jail for the primary time in months.