WORLD:
After years of silence, the Federal Foreign Office published a statement on December 30, 2020 in which the Federal Government’s Commissioner for Human Rights Policy, Bärbel Kofler, expressed her “concern” in view of the conditions under which Assange is being held in London: “Great Britain is in this respect bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, also with regard to the possible penalties and the conditions of detention ”.
Do you sometimes have doubts about the rule of law?
Jennifer Robinson:
Absolutely.
Julian's case should scare everyone.
When I look back over the past 10 years, I particularly remember the beginning, when the pressure on him became more and more extreme.
Wikileaks' bank accounts were frozen and the propaganda machine became more intense and efficient.
Citizens should seriously question what they read in the media - and how it affected their views on this case.
Our Australian government even threatened to cancel his passport.
Visa, PayPal, MasterCard, WikiLeaks all blocked donations.
The support from the population was enormous.
At that time, the organization received up to 20,000 euros a day.
But when the banks turned the tap on them, that was it.