The Queen Can’t Help Julian Assange Because ‘The Matter Is Political’

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Queen Elizabeth has finally responded to request to help Julian Assange in prosecution row

The Queen will not be intervening to help get Julian Assange released from prison and has vowed to remain “non-political” on the matter, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman has said.

A statement issued by the Palace, following a request for the Queens support, appears to confirm that Assange’s detention is a political, not criminal, matter.

Doctors and psychologists have warned that Julian Assange is about to die due to the torture he is experiencing in prison.

RT reports: With WikiLeaks founder Assange holed up in HM Prison Belmarsh awaiting extradition to the US, activist Chris Lonsdale penned a letter to Queen Elizabeth II last month, asking the monarch to “ensure that Mr. Julian Assange is freed from Belmarsh Prison unconditionally,” in the spirit of “justice, peace and fair-mindedness.”

In a reply posted by Lonsdale on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the Queen said that Her Majesty “remains strictly non-political at all times,” and Assange’s detention is therefore “not a matter in which the Queen would intervene.”

Assange’s supporters have long argued that his arrest and imprisonment are motivated by politics, not justice. Assange has languished in Belmarsh since his arrest inside London’s Ecuadorian embassy last April, ostensibly on charges of skipping bail in 2012. He is also facing extradition to the US to answer to a litany of espionage charges, related to WikiLeaks’ publication of classified US military documents detailing potential war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. If convicted, he faces 175 years in prison.

Buckingham Palace’s response seemingly admits that Assange is being persecuted on political grounds. 

Assange’s health has been in steady decline since his incarceration. Following a visit to Assange in May, UN rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer declared that the former WikiLeaks boss showed “all the symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture.”

Melzer added that Assange could be “exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights… including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” if he were extradited to the US.

“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law,” Melzer said. “The collective persecution of Julian Assange must end here and now!”

4 Comments

  1. Why would she help him? After all he did expose their Hell nest of which the usurped crown is the head of the beast.
    The longer she does “Nothing” the more she is showing her truest fear… they (the Royals) are being exposed for what they really are… Parasites of the highest order. Think back for a moment about every time theres a real Royal scandal (Jimmy Saville, Ted Heath, Princes Charles and Andrew) theres a massive war (Operation Cast Lead Israel 2014) or mega media distraction (Swine flu, Ebola, SARS, Corona Virus)
    One day it will dawn on all of us that the world doesn’t have to be this way.
    Start the revolution by turning of your Tv’s and Radios. Dont buy their papers. By all means use the internet but we need to cut these parasites of once and for all

  2. assange wasraised in a cult here A cult of blonde haired kiddies who all if not nasturally blond were bleached to fit in Some strange wom,an with connections tio England and obviously powers within politics ran the whole show or programmje Hamilton byrnes or something was her name or the moniker she went under { legally} anyway It was all very very odd anbd all hushed up and involved large sums of money derived from all sorts of ” grants” from the governmet Its no surprise Asasnge ended badly used and abused by the in crowd

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