{"id":5595,"date":"2019-05-31T20:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2019-05-31T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:23:57","slug":"un-special-rapporteur-on-tortures-statement-about-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"UN special rapporteur on torture&#8217;s statement about Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-48473898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UN&#8217;s special rapporteur on torture said that Assange had been subjected to sustained collective persecution &#8211; including threatening statements and incitement to violence against him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;I&#8217;ve worked in many areas of war in my life, in situations of violence, and I&#8217;ve talked to victims of persecution around the world and I&#8217;ve seen very serious atrocities,&#8220; Mr Melzer told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;But [what] I have never seen is that a single person has been deliberately isolated and, I would say, persecuted &#8211; not prosecuted, but persecuted &#8211; by several democratic states in a concerted effort to eventually break his will.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>He added that he believes Assange &#8222;has a very strong case, and a very reasonable fear, that if he gets extradited to the Unites States he has no chance to get a fair trial with the level of public and official prejudice that exists there for him&#8220;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: The UN&#8217;s special rapporteur on torture said that Assange had been subjected to sustained collective persecution &#8211; including threatening statements and incitement to violence against him. &#8222;I&#8217;ve worked in many areas of war in my life, in situations of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=5595\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}