UN expert calls for immediate release of Assange

 

United Kingdom: UN expert calls for immediate release of Assange after 10 years of arbitrary detention

GENEVA (8 December 2020)

The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, today appealed to British authorities to immediately release Julian Assange from prison or to place him under guarded house arrest during US extradition proceedings.

Details available on the United Nation Human Rights website under the title

United Kingdom: UN expert calls for immediate release of Assange after 10 years of arbitrary detention


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