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Theyre trying to kill Assange because he spoke the truth: Roger Waters calls on Biden to end disgusting sham prosecution


Joe Biden and Julian Assange © Reuters / Kevin Lamarque and Peter Nicholls

With the brother and father of the jailed WikiLeaks co-founder on a US tour to raise awareness of Julian Assanges plight, legendary Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters challenged Joe Biden to end the journalists prosecution.

Assanges father John Shipton and brother Gabriel are traveling across the US this month to press the Biden administration to drop its charges, and highlight the threat to worldwide press freedom this prosecution poses. Joining them in New York this week was Roger Waters, who told RT on Friday why hes fighting for Assange.

"He is being held up as an example: Keep your mouth shut or this will happen to you," he said.

«Theyre trying to kill Julian Assange because he spoke the truth, and its disgusting.»

After seven years holed up in Londons Ecuadorian Embassy, a change in power in the Latin American country saw British police officers allowed inside to arrest the WikiLeaks founder in 2019. He has languished in Belmarsh Prison since then, denied bail, even though a judge ruled in January that he could not be extradited to the United States due to concerns over US prison conditions.

On the day he was arrested, the US unsealed the Espionage Act indictment against Assange, secretly filed in March 2018 by the Trump administrations Justice Department. Though Joe Biden is now in the White House, the US government is still seeking his extradition, and Waters called on Biden to stand by the Obama-era decision not to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder.

"Its interesting that this Democratic president has not yet gone back to the Obama administrations contention that there was no case... and that you cannot prosecute Julian Assange, because if you do, then you have to prosecute every publisher who publishes any truth that you might find inconvenient," he said.

The espionage charges against Assange do not allege that he stole or leaked classified documents, only that he published them. Such charges have never been tested in court before, and Assanges legal team argue that what he did was no different to what the newspapers who ran the same stories about alleged US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan did.

Waters agrees. "We know for sure that he committed no crime," he told RT. "All he did was report the news."


«If thats a crime then we should lock up the editorial boards of the New York Times and everyone else... the whole thing is a complete sham.»


Waters called on Biden and his administration to drop the charges, which could see Assange face 175 years behind bars if extradited and convicted. "The question [the administration is] being asked to make a judgment about is as clear as day," he told RT. "He certainly hasnt committed espionage, or any crime that could be prosecuted in the United States."

With Biden and his team apparently content to ignore the Assange case for now, Assanges fiancee Stella Moris, Geneva Mayor Frederique Perler, and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer joined the chorus calling for the journalists release last week, with Melzer describing Assanges incarceration as "one of the biggest judicial scandals in history."

 

 

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