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Famous Spanish jurist to lead WikiLeaks-Assange defense team

Published time: July 24, 2012 22:38
Edited time: July 25, 2012 23:59
Baltasar Garzon and Julian Assange (AFP Photo/RT)
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The prominent Spanish lawyer and international jurist, Baltasar Garzon, will lead the legal team defending WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Garzon and Assange have already met to discuss their new legal strategy.

A former judge at Spain's central criminal court, Garzon is famous for issuing an international arrest warrant for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet two decades ago, thus revolutionizing the international justice system and triggering a widespread fight against impunity in Latin America and the rest of the world.

The announcement by WikiLeaks comes after the jurist met with Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the whistleblower is seeking asylum.

According to a statement released by WikiLeaks, the purpose of the meeting was to discuss the new legal strategy which will be used to defend both WikiLeaks and Assange from the existing abuse of process and expose the arbitrary, extrajudicial actions by the international financial system which target Julian Assange and WikiLeaks specifically.

They also discussed how to show how secret US processes against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have compromised and contaminated other legal processes, including the extradition process against Assange.

More than a month ago the WikiLeaks founder entered the embassy of Ecuador in London and filed a request for asylum. Ecuador’s UK ambassador is personally working on the matter and even had to return home for consultations. Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has reiterated that his government will take “a decision based on humanistic principles that illuminate our revolution, which illuminate our constitution.” However, so far no decision has been announced.

The deadline set by the UK's highest court for Julian Assange's extradition to Sweden ran out on July 7. Assange said he will not leave the embassy until a decision on his asylum request is made.

Garzon earlier voiced serious concerns regarding the lack of safeguards and transparency with which actions are being taken against Julian Assange and stressed the whistleblower is being subjected to harassment, which is causing irreparable damage to his physical and mental wellbeing.

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Mcafee is Malware backdoor (unregistered) 31.07.2012 16:40

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bravewarrior (unregistered) 25.07.2012 17:52

The Wikileaks diplomatic cables revealed the active hand of the US interferring with European justice systems. Protecting their own operatives from crimes like kidnappings, torture prisons in European countries, assassinations and bombings(see Operation Gladio-on google). Their greatest success to date was to manipulate the prosecution and expulsion of Garzon from the Spanish bench. The only prosecutor who seriously pursued international human rights violations and war criminals. The person who published the war logs, documenting the war crimes and actors in both the Iraq and Afghani wars-has the perfect defense attorney in Garzon. With all the political turmoil in Spain, and the fading reputations of so many corrupt politicians-one hopes that Garzon is restored to the bench to continue his important work-to bring justice to the world. Of course small African politicians are regularly prosecuted but the big countries, like the US and Israel-seem immune from consequences for their repeated war crimes. Their sense of 'immunity' is clearly misplaced, as the convictions of Argentine generals, from crimes  committed during the 'Dirty Wars' continues to demonstrate. Next of course is Mr.Henry Kissinger-the architect of the Dirty Wars. Good luck Assange, while we continue to pray for the heroic Pvt. Bradley Manning.

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