UK press takes swipe at Assange and UN panel

UK Press takes Swipe at Assange and UN Panel


LONDON: British newspaper columnists on Saturday took aim at Julian Assange and the UN panel that found the anti-secrecy campaigner had been “arbitrarily detained”.
The WikiLeaks founder, who faces a rape allegation in Sweden, urged Britain to let him walk free from Ecuador’s London embassy following the panel’s findings Friday.
The 44-year-old Australian, who has been in the embassy for approaching four years, has refused to go to Sweden, fearing deportation to the United States over WikiLeaks’ release of 500,000 secret military files.
“So that settles it then — everyone’s to blame except Julian Assange,” wrote Marina Hyde in The Guardian.

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