Thanks - I was assuming it’s the same person.
Here’s an informative review of Julian Assange’s situation:
Once dragged out of the embassy, Assange was put in Belmarsh maximum security prison, regarded as the UK’s Guantanamo bay. He’s been there ever since, for 4 years now, awaiting extradition to the US. He’s not actually even serving any sentence, he’s simply waiting through an endless back and forth of appeals with the UK courts to decide whether his extradition to the US will be granted. The judge has had everything he needs to make a decision about the extradition for over 6 months, yet Assange still languishes in prison. And what’s more is the judge actually has no time limit within which he must make a decision. Assange can stay in maximum security prison indefinitely, without ever having been found guilty of anything.
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