[...]In imprisoning Assange for bail violation, the UK was in clear defiance of the judgement of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD), which stated
Under international law, pre-trial detention must be only imposed in limited instances. Detention during investigations must be even more limited, especially in the absence of any charge. The Swedish investigations have been closed for over 18 months now, and the only ground remaining for Mr. Assange’s continued deprivation of liberty is a bail violation in the UK, which is, objectively, a minor offense that cannot post facto justify the more than 6 years confinement that he has been subjected to since he sought asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador. Mr. Assange should be able to exercise his right to freedom of movement in an unhindered manner, in accordance with the human rights conventions the UK has ratified, In repudiating the UNWGAD the UK has undermined an important pillar of international law, and one it had always supported in hundreds of other decisions.
The mainstream media has entirely failed to note that the UNWGAD called for the release of
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – a source of potentially valuable international pressure on Iran which the UK has made worthless by its own refusal to comply with the UN over the Assange case.
Iran simply replies “if you do not respect the UNWGAD then why should we?”
Nazanin Ratcliffe, jailed in Iran; often mentioned by 'The Guardian'.
UN is trying to help her, UK media blanks that out It is in fact a key indication of media/government collusion that the British media, which reports regularly at every pretext on the Zaghari-Ratcliffe case to further its anti-Iranian government agenda, failed to report at all
the UNWGAD call for her release – because of the desire to deny the UN body credibility in the case of Julian Assange.