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    Excellent piece from James Ricketson : "We must write to journalists who remain silent and ask them Archived Message

    Posted by CJ on June 27, 2019, 3:46 am, in reply to ""Does Julian deserve to die in a US prison?” "

    if they believe that Julian Assange has committed crimes that justify his death in a US prison."

    Lawyers have focused on ensuring that there is no death penalty imposed on JA as required by our Extradition rules and yet few people have asked the question posed by JR which can be expressed another way - what is the real difference between dying in a US gaol through the death penalty and dying there through confinement for the rest of their life.
    The only difference between burying someone alive behind a brick wall without air, food and water until they die and imprisoning someone behind a brick wall with air food and water until they die is the additional years of torture imposed on the victim - imo.

    175 years as a sentence inside a super max prison, with solitary confinement a regular punishment, is imo worse than taking their life by more instant methods. It is barbaric for any so-called democracy to impose such penalties for disclosing the crimes of governments and their servants - an activity which is, or should be, a fundamental part of any journalist's job.

    To claim JA should not be extradited because he is at risk of the death penalty should include the penalty of prison until death. Anyone confined in the super max prison environment cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be regarded as living as he is deprived of nearly all the elements of living.

    cheers

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