Isolated and spied, Assange continues to fight In fact …

Alone, sick, isolated, spied and threatened. But still fighting. This is how he travels today to the Embbady of Ecuador in London, the publisher who revealed the most devastating secrets of the day. one of the most powerful empires in history.

That said, words plus, minus words, a legal document written and signed to the full name two days after Christmas by Julian Paul Assange, founder of the megafiltration website WikiLeaks.org, and his lawyer, the legendary former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón Real. This is a request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for provisional measures against the governments of the United States and Ecuador, of which Página12 has received a copy.

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The document offers a crude description of the rise of US government hostility to Assange, as WikiLeaks releases new revelations of anonymous leaks revealing the worst vices of US military, diplomatic, political, and intelligence institutions. . . According to the lawsuit, the persecution began in 2002 when WikiLeaks published secret documents about Guantanamo prison. The pressure intensified after the publication of parts of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Between the one and the other publication, Assange was arrested in Britain for a Swedish arrest warrant relating to a badual crime for which he would never be prosecuted. Then came the "cable" of diplomatic offices that shook the world. Assange is a refugee at the Embbady of Ecuador in a department of about 180 square meters to be shared with the diplomatic delegation, without clean air nor sunlight for more than six years and half.

Already in the embbady, ​​the editor of WikiLeaks leaked leaks in 2016 concerning Hillary Clinton and the detainees of his party in the middle of the presidential campaign, which earned Assange a criminal trial of the Democratic Party for alleged interference in the US electoral process, via an alleged conspiracy with Russia.

The US offensive against Assange escalated under the Trump administration after the release of "Vault 7", the largest leak of secret documents in CIA history: "In the aforementioned information packages, can see the means of illegal Espionage deployed by the CIA worldwide, for example via "smart phones" and TVs of mobile devices or a program that injects Trojans into the biometric databases of allied countries via the software "Cross Match", ".

The lawsuit brought by Assange reveals how each of these leaks has generated incriminations and threatening responses from top officials of the three US powers, from requests for the application of the death penalty to the description of WikiLeaks as "service." hostile intelligence, state "in the latest report of the FBI before the bicameral committee of congressional intelligence.

In this situation, Assange and Garzón add the treatment received by Chelsea Manning, the alleged source of "Cablegate", sentenced to 35 years and pardoned after seven years, who, during his detention, received "cruel, inhuman and degrading". ", Which is comparable to torture, according to Argentine Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, who ruled in 2012. Assange was indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, who has been investigating him since 2010 for his role in filtering Manning, and since the grand jury's indictment remains "sealed" or secret, the judicial act of Assange and Garzón conclude that the founder of WikiLeaks risks being extradited to the United States, where he would probably suffer the same inhumane, cruel and degrading treatment as his alleged informant.

In its expeditious part, the lawsuit "asks" the Commission "to oblige" the United States to provide "all information" on the imputations and warrants in effect against Assange. "And all that for the IACHR to prevent the possibility of an exit of Mr. Assange from the embbady to a safe country," says the trial. In addition, the text reports the change in attitude of the Government of Ecuador towards Assange after Lenin Moreno replaced Rafael Correa as President of that country. With its support for its right to freedom of expression and unrestricted adherence to international treaties on asylum and the defense of human rights, the Government of Ecuador has openly negotiated the surrender of Assange with the United States and Britain, The document adds that which has added a level of espionage, humiliation and harbadment that mocks the institution of the asylum, quotes various recognized journalistic sources that can explain these negotiations.

The document stops at Assange's health. He badures that this could have caused irreparable harm and that the restrictions imposed by the embbady last March as punishment for having demonstrated in favor of the independence of Catalonia through social networks l 39; have aggravated. Attached is a report from a doctor and a psychologist, as well as another from the former chairman of the United Nations Committee Against Torture, Fernando Mariño, "who is not the only one in the world. did not hesitate to describe as torture the behavior of the Swedish and British authorities with regard to Mr Assange ". The complaint also quotes an opinion from the UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, which condemns Britain and Sweden for arbitrary detention resulting in the refusal to issue a laissez-pbader to Assange in order to leave the embbady without being stopped

According to the complaint lodged with the IACHR, since last March, the Ecuadorian government had cut off all the communications of Assange with the outside world. "The embbady has installed four inhibitors, with a total of 22 antennas, that block the phone coverage and WiFi signal." Mr. Assange does not have access to the Embbady's telephone network, "he said. installation of inhibitors resulted in a total blockage of telephone access to the outside, "says the lawsuit. The embbady also imposed severe restrictions on its visiting regime, particularly with respect to its lawyers. In October, he made him sign a protocol containing many requirements ranging from the prohibition of public speaking to the hygiene of his cat. which the complainants deem to be absurd and humiliating, written for the sole purpose of preparing the ground for the expulsion of Assange from the London diplomatic headquarters. "The Protocol disregards a fundamental principle of asylum and removes it only if the risk for which it has been granted ends, which can not be arbitrarily and unilaterally ceased by the State providing protection, simply by violating the conditions embbady established in a document, "write Assange and Garzón. "Assange's shelter in the embbady is increasingly looking like an isolation cell," said Human Rights Watch counsel Dinah Pokempner, quoted in the lawsuit.

The court document adds to the total isolation of Assange the loss of his private life: "The Ecuadorian government reportedly used specialized security services to spy on Mr. Assange … Moreover, according to the international media, this company hired by Ecuador (to spy on Assange), he reportedly reported to various US authorities, especially to the FBI. "All this puts the physical and mental health of the asylum in danger, the judicial presentation states: "The irreparable damage that may occur Mr. Assange's state of health if the situation persists in this impbade, given the delicate physical and psychological situation in which he has lived for years and who has aggravated by the latest measures of absolute isolation by the Ecuadorian government. "

More specifically, the plaintiffs ask the IACHR, in addition to the conservatory measures addressed to the United States, to "tell" the Ecuadorian government to repeal the protocol, to stop spying on Assange and not to prosecute " the surrender of Mr. Assange to any country that does not provide guarantees of non-extradition (non-refoulement) in the United States. "

PageI12 tried to communicate with the Secretary General of the Communication of the Ecuadorian presidency, Andrés Michelena, to know the position of his government, but did not get answers yesterday to the messages recorded on the answering machine of his mobile phone . We also tried to find out the position of the US government by forwarding a request for comment from the White House or State Department through the Embbady. At the end of this edition, we were waiting for the answer. Similarly, WikiLeaks was contacted for its reaction to the publication of the trial, but no response was obtained. Sources close to the case ensure that an opinion of the IACHR on the case Assange will be known in the coming days.

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