So that settles it then – everyone’s to blame except Julian Assange
Marina Hyde
The right to insufferable superiority is not specifically enshrined in the UN declaration – and yet it continues to be extended to Julian Assange, along with a load of other rights and due processes that somehow escaped the attentions of the UN panel convened to consider his case ...
The working group has concluded that the WikiLeaks founder has been arbitrarily detained, including under house arrest, and that the diplomatic asylum offered him by Ecuador somehow binds the UK to give Julian Assange free passage – which is almost right, except he was never under house arrest, there has been nothing arbitrary at any stage of the various legal procedures with which he has been involved, and the UK has no obligation to recognise diplomatic asylum granted within its borders by another state. In fact, that is probably an Ecuadorian misuse of the inviolability of diplomatic premises. Still .. nought out of three ain’t bad ...
the UN panel is now demanding the UK and Swedish governments offer Assange compensation, given his ordeal. I see the Ecuadorians are too (rather more understandably, given theirs ... I always wondered whether Assange’s unique gift for driving away his friends would result in a diplomatic version of that Poirot where all the characters dunnit, with everyone from the ambassador to the janitor somehow involved in his demise) ...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/05/julian-assange-un-panel-blame-fugitive
