The repudios follow the arrest of Assange | "A laugh …

The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) repudiated by a statement the withdrawal of diplomatic protection by the Government of Ecuador and the delivery to the UK of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks. The position of AAJ, an NGO in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, is reflected in a document outlining the "courage of Assange to reveal state supervision that violates the fundamental processes of democracy, constitutional rights and human rights ".

Assange, editor and cyber-activist, was arrested on April 11. He had been a refugee since 2012 at the Embbady of Ecuador in London, in Knightsbridge District, following a judgment of the British Supreme Court, which had ordered his arrest and then his transfer to Sweden. A prosecutor then issued a warrant for an international arrest against him. consider him suspected of committing a badual crime. Although he was never charged with the crime and the Swedish prosecutor finally filed the investigation, Assange was arrested after being deported from the embbady for allegedly violating his probation . A few minutes later, the United States filed its extradition request.

The decision of the Government of Ecuador, which keeps the activist of extradition to the United States and that is justified by Lenin Moreno in response to repeated violations (by Assange) of "international conventions and of the coexistence protocol "", it is for the AAJ a "renunciation of national sovereignty".

It is also a measure that "violates the right of asylum and Articles 9 and 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 7, 9, 10 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, humanitarian law and the Ecuadorian Constitution ". The AAJ also ensures that the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment prohibits extradition to a country where the person is at risk of being tortured.

In addition, social organizations, journalists and cultural and political figures from around the world supported Assange. Signatories from around the world include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; Manuel Zelaya, former president of Honduras; Fernando Lugo; Former president of Paraguay, Cuban singer-songwriter Raúl Torres, mother of Plaza de Mayo Nora Cortiñas.