Three years since Julian Assange’s arrest from the Ecuador Embassy - Reactions & Statements

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, Federal President Karen Percy

“The charges against Assange are an affront to journalists everywhere and a threat to press freedom. “The US Government must see reason and drop these charges, and the Australian Government should be doing all it can to represent the interests of an Australian citizen.”

Today is the third anniversary of Julian Assange’s arrest. The Biden Administration must drop its charges against him. The scope of the charges imperil any journalist anywhere who writes about the US government.https://t.co/U82eeXIOLV #MEAAmedia #pressfreedom #Assange pic.twitter.com/a2uB4NKeau
— MEAA (@withMEAA) April 10, 2022

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Australian Independent Federal MP Andrew Wilkie

3 years today since Julian Assange was sent to Belmarsh High Security Prison. He now faces the frightening possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. Australia needs to pick up the phone & urge the UK & US to stop his extradition. #politas #auspol #FreeAssangeNOW
— Andrew Wilkie MP (@WilkieMP) April 11, 2022

Sevim Dağdelen, MP, Foreign policy & Arms Exports & Disarmament, Member of the German Bundestag

Die Schande des Westens: Heute seit drei Jahren im britischen HSG Belmarsh in Isolationshaft. Wie lange wollt ihr #JulianAssange noch quälen? Nicht wer Kriegsverbrechen aufdeckt, sondern wer sie begeht, befiehlt oder vertuscht gehört hinter Gitter! #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW pic.twitter.com/mPVguP0Tjn
— Sevim Dağdelen, MdB (@SevimDagdelen) April 11, 2022

DIE LINKE is calling on the German government to work with the British government to end the political persecution of Julian Assange.

„Es ist die Schande des Westens, dass der Journalist Julian #Assange seit drei Jahren im britischen Guantanamo Belmarsh in Isolationshaft sitzt, allein weil die USA seine Auslieferung wollen, um ihn für 175 Jahre hinter Gitter zu sperren" so @SevimDagdelen https://t.co/fqIgG9JxMD
— linksfraktion (@Linksfraktion) April 11, 2022

PEN International and PEN Melbourne

‘Dear Members of Parliament, Senators and concerned citizens,

At 11 am on the 11^th April, 2022, a delegation from PEN International will visit the British Consulate at 90 Collins Street, Melbourne to present an Open Letter calling for the immediate release of Julian Assange and a halt to the extradition.‘

Assange: PEN Open Letter to British Consul

Today marks 3 years since @wikileaks Julian #Assange was arrested and detained. We urge @pritipatel
to #FreeAssangeNOW and block his extradition to the US. https://t.co/zH3Qp16nMO
— PEN International (@pen_int) April 11, 2022

International Federation of Journalists

#UK🇬🇧: On the third anniversary of Julian Assange's detention we join @withMEAA in calling on the Biden Administration to drop the charges against him #PressFreedom #FreeAssange https://t.co/zGjEPASPDM
— IFJ (@IFJGlobal) April 11, 2022

Amnistía Internacional España

📣 Hoy hace tres años de la detención de Julian Assange y seguimos esperando justicia. Sigue luchando. FIRMA y pide que retiren todos los cargos. La persecución de Assange es un ataque a la libertad de expresión. @JulianAssange_ @wikileaks #FreeAssange https://t.co/EYEDt716wL
— Amnistía Internacional España (@amnistiaespana) April 11, 2022

Amnesty Australia

Monday 11 April marks three years since Julian Assange’s arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He remains behind bars at Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK.

Together we can take the next step – pick up the phone and call your MP.

CALL YOUR MP. SUPPORT JULIAN ASSANGE

Monday 11 April marks 3 years since Julian Assange’s arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He remains behind bars in a high security prison in the UK.
Use this tool by @amnestyOz #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges https://t.co/NAUGfhS3oK
— Don't Extradite Assange (@DEAcampaign) April 8, 2022

Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International Media manager

Three years ago #JulianAssange was detained Belmarsh HMP

Criminal & extradition proceedings against Assange set a dangerous precedent

News organizations often & necessarily publish classified information in order to inform the public of matters of public interest#WPFD22 #IJF22 pic.twitter.com/GtqibVz5tG
— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) April 11, 2022

Amnistia Internacional Catalunya

📣 AVUI fa 3 anys de la detenció de Julian Assange i seguim esperant justicia. FIRMEU la petició perquè li retirin tots els càrrecs.
La persecució d'Assange és un atac a la llibertat d'expressió i d'informacio. @JulianAssange_ @wikileaks #FreeAssange https://t.co/h2XRjvmRR9
— Amnistia Internacional Catalunya (@AmnistiaCAT) April 11, 2022

Open Letter to US President Joe Biden from Progressive Leaders including Dilma Rousseff, Yanis Varoufakis, Roger Waters, Horvat Srecko and others calling to drop the charges against Julian Assange. With International Peoples’ Assembly.

On the third anniversary of Julian Assange’s imprisonment at Belmarsh Prison in London, progressive voices including @dilmabr, @rogerwaters, @yanisvaroufakis, and others, call on US officials to drop the charges against him.#FreeAssangeNOW ✊🚩

👉https://t.co/zRYVw4zgDM
— International Peoples' Assembly (@peoplesassembl_) April 11, 2022

Progressive Leaders call on US President Joe Biden to drop the charges against Julian Assange

Reporters Without Borders

🔴Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange has now been detained at London's Belmarsh prison for three years. That's 1,096 days in prison, facing possible extradition to the US for publishing information in the public interest. RSF calls once again for the US and UK to #FreeAssange! pic.twitter.com/FhPB2QaFxc
— RSF (@RSF_inter) April 11, 2022

Rebecca Vincent, Director of Operations and Campaigns Reporters Without Borders

Today marks 3 years that Julian Assange has been detained at London’s high-security Belmarsh prison. Three years charged with no crime in the UK, held on remand while the US government pursues his extradition for publishing public interest information. It’s time to #FreeAssange! pic.twitter.com/MoHZIAWmab
— Rebecca Vincent (@rebecca_vincent) April 11, 2022

Canan Bayram, lawyer and Member of the German Bundestag

Heute vor drei Jahren: Britische Polizisten führen Julian #Assange in Handschellen aus der ecuadorianischen Botschaft in London ab. Seit drei Jahren sitzt Julian Assange im Gefängnis, weil er es gewagt hat, Kriegsverbrechen zu enthüllen. Schluss mit der Folter.

#FreeAssangeNOW pic.twitter.com/BXnKnhRFXQ
— Canan Bayram (@LieblingXhain) April 11, 2022

Srecko Horvat, Croatian Philosopher

Today is exactly 3 years since #Assange is imprisoned at Belmarsh Prison in UK for revealing brutal US war crimes. If he is extradited to the US (175 years in prison) it will be a death sentence – and the final nail in the coffin of democracy in the so called West. pic.twitter.com/br1ragfWZs
— Srećko Horvat (@HorvatSrecko) April 11, 2022

Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician

Julian Assange has been imprisoned in British Guantanamo for three years. It’s a crime against us all – DiEM25 https://t.co/9EDqlJclLT
— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 11, 2022

Democracy in Europe Movement 2025

Today is another landmark in one of the worst miscarriages of justice ever perpetrated by our so-called democracies in the West: Julian Assange has now been in a jail cell at Belmarsh prison in London for three years.#FreeAssange #AssangeCase https://t.co/VdHDdakUD7
— DiEM25 (@DiEM_25) April 11, 2022

"Even worse than those three years in prison would be 175 years in a supermax prison in the US."

DiEM25 co-founder @HorvatSrecko with a message on the third anniversary of Julian Assange's imprisonment.#FreeAssange #AssangeCase pic.twitter.com/5JvUx95ZEK
— DiEM25 (@DiEM_25) April 11, 2022

Clare Daly, Member of the European parliament

#Assange, whose groundbreaking journalism exposed the big lie of NATO's "moral wars," is now 3 years in prison.

NGOs/unions condemn it as persecution; on it grinds.

No case more vividly demonstrates the total hypocrisy of the West on human rights and democracy… #FreeAssange
— Clare Daly (@ClareDalyMEP) April 11, 2022

Nicola Morra, Senator of Italy

Largo Argentina, fino alle 18.30.#FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/BJ3v3bto0j
— Nicola Morra (@NicolaMorra63) April 11, 2022

Human Rigths Institute in Slovakia

👎 Dnes sú to 3 roky čo je Julian Assange vo väznici Belmarsh za to, že zverejnil dôkazy o zločinoch armád a vlád po celom svete, čelí vydaniu do USA
🟢 Petícia za prepustenie tu https://t.co/sjpHJJWOa9 #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges #NoExtradition @UKinSlovakia pic.twitter.com/WbOtykEHq4
— Inštitút ľudských práv – Human Rights Institute (@ludskeprava) April 11, 2022

Peoples Dispatch

Held in a high security prison complex in Belmarsh in the outskirts of London, the #WikiLeaks founder has been in prison since 2019 when he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the police.#FreeAssangeNOW #JournalismIsNotACrime @peoplesassembl_https://t.co/irDo2vZPaN
— Peoples Dispatch (@peoplesdispatch) April 11, 2022

Libertarian Party of New Hampshire

The US Government condemning Russia or anyone for war crimes while Julian Assange rots away in prison for exposing US war crimes is the hypocrisy of the century. #FreeAssange
— Libertarian Party NH (@LPNH) April 11, 2022

João Pedro Stedile, Brazilian economist

Espero que as autoridades britânicas deixem de ser subalternas aos interesses do império americano e que no próximo dia 20 de abril Assange seja finalmente libertado. Ele não cometeu nenhum crime. Apenas denunciou os crimes do império.https://t.co/Q3d1pRTnqF
— João Pedro Stedile (@stedile_mst) April 11, 2022

Defending Rights & Dissent

Today marks 3 years since #JulianAssange was arrested. The fact that Assange has been sitting in a Belmarsh jail cell for 3 yrs for publishing the truth further underscores the need for Congress to step up & take serious steps to reform the Espionage Act! https://t.co/yspGTmqk3z pic.twitter.com/AOEIzGIW6v
— Defending Rights & Dissent (@RightsDissent) April 11, 2022

Code Pink

Today marks 3 years since one of the greatest threats to press freedom in history, a possible extradition of Julian Assange to the US, became a reality. We cannot stop resisting until Julian Assange is free. #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/q7FQC4T543
— CODEPINK (@codepink) April 11, 2022

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