Julian Assange: UK rejects death penalty claim

[struggle4progress]

Claims Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could face the death penalty in the US are "without foundation", Foreign Secretary William Hague has indicated ...

"The suggestion that Mr Assange's human rights would be put at risk by the possibility of onward extradition from Sweden to a third country is also without foundation...

"In practice, this means that the United Kingdom could only consent to Mr Assange's onward extradition from Sweden to a third country if satisfied that extradition would be compatible with his human rights, and that there was no prospect of a death sentence being imposed or carried out" ...

The foreign secretary said there had been seven formal discussions as well as many other conversations and written exchanges with Ecuador in an attempt to reach an acceptable resolution ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/19466791

[NewYorkers]

1. Hacking is Act of War

The Pentagon’s newest policy grants the US military the ability to respond to a cyber attack on government networks with physical force – equating hacking to an act of war.

http://rt.com/usa/news/pentagon-war-cyber-attacks/

[struggle4progress]

9. Why would anyone regard Russia Today as an authoritative source on US law and policy?

Russia Today is state-owned media: it reflects the foreign policy propaganda of its owner

[marmar]

12. RT is actually a lot more honest about US foreign policy than private American media is.

nt

[Vincardog]

2. The president claims the authority to execute anybody without judicial review.

[link:http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=6657|
It he can kill US Citizens why couldn't he kill a filthy Aussie publisher of inconvenient facts ?

[riderinthestorm]

4. Yup. +1. nt

[Robb]

6. Assange is Australian, not a "filthy Brit."

He's also a publisher, not a "whistle blower."

[Vincardog]

8. Thank you I corrected my errors

[riderinthestorm]

3. Sweden's a US partner in illegal CIA rendition actions, the UK is guilty of war crimes

Nobody believes them. Those two countries have shown they don't give a shit about international law.

Trotting out this argument AGAIN S4P? Poor dear having to resort to recycling old stuff.

[struggle4progress]

13. The story's on hundreds on news websites today

[Luminous Animal]

5. There is more to human rights than the death penalty.

[ananda]

7. Exactly.

There are ways to disappear a person besides
executing them.

[randome]

10. And they could have done that 2 years ago instead of waiting all this time.

Either the conspirators are evil masterminds or they are incompetent. Either way doesn't bode well for those who think Assange is under penalty of death.

[Luminous Animal]

14. Interesting that you would take the word of a British minister when our own government is mum

when it comes to the intent of the Wikileaks and Assange Grand Jury.