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A tale of two extraditions
Assange is in jail as a whistleblower and faces extradition – but the wife of a US spy who ran over a teenager was allowed to leave the country, facing no charge, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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JULIAN ASSANGE is in a British jail, imprisoned because he faces US extradition. He is being extradited because he helped expose US war crimes.
Some people who used Assange’s leaks have turned their back on him because he also faced rape charges, but those charges were never heard in court, and that is not why he is in prison now.
Assange is in prison because he ran Wikileaks, which published the leaked “Collateral Murder” video, which showed US troops gunning down journalists in Iraq from a helicopter gunship.
Assange’s Wikileaks also published the leaked US military “war logs,” showing how thousands of civilians were killed by US troops — or even private contractors — in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
For exposing these crimes, Assange goes to jail and faces extradition. But Anne Sacoolas, wife of a US spy, can flee Britain after killing a British teenager through her reckless driving outside a US airbase in Northamptonshire. There is no attempt to imprison or extradite her.
It couldn’t be clearer that extradition to and from the US is a political process, not a judicial one. The two cases show that exposing the crimes of the US military machine can put you in prison in the UK, while being close to the US military machine can keep you free from British justice.
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