“It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.” Quote by Julian Assange
“The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard adaption which they didn't ask for. I worry about them; I worry about their mother.” ChildrenRealHardYoungMotherAsksFatherWorryYoung ChildrenIrritants Author:Julian Assange
“The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.” MadeCountryWholeLawNationsUnitedSituationGroupsMonthsAbuseKingdomsConclusionIllegalVersesFormalUnited NationsArbitraryDeprivedEighteenSwedenUnited KingdomDetention Author:Julian Assange
“Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.” WritingNationsAbilityUnitedLeavingUnited NationsRulingRecogniseSweden Author:Julian Assange
“I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it doesn't suit the Western establishment narrative - that yes, the West has political prisoners, it's a reality, it's not just me, there's a bunch of other people as well.” PeopleWellsRealityPoliticalSituationPressesWestWesternBunchSuitsNarrativePrisonerEstablishmentPolitical Prisoners Author:Julian Assange
“Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.” PeopleShouldKindSelfStatesReasonPoliticalCoursesUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesPerceptionChinaPrisonerSwedenSelf PerceptionPolitical PrisonersAzerbaijanDetaining Author:Julian Assange
“Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?” ShouldMadeSaidStatesWholeFactsFoundGivenNationsUnitedCasesCrimePoliceInnocentMade ItIllegalRhetoricUnited NationsAsylumsProsecutorSwedishEcuadorStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.” Has BeensMadeCrimePoliceMade ItPretendingRhetoric Author:Julian Assange
“[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.” TryingMadeStatesWholeFoundProcessUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsIllegalRhetoricFormalPersecutionAssessmentEcuador Author:Julian Assange