WikiLeaks denounces UNESCO After WikiLeaks Banned from UNESCO Conference on WikiLeaks

[msanthrope]

27. Um, Mr. Robertson is responsible for Assange's current, and sole appeal point.

I am not surprised that Mr. Asssange has had a falling out with yet another set of lawyers, but Mr. Robertson is the only reason Assange remains in the UK....

Julian Assange’s next court appearance, on Wednesday, has nothing to do with sex or U.S. diplomatic cables or even with WikiLeaks. But it may make an important contribution to European law. The United Kingdom Supreme Court will be considering the point I raised on his behalf when a Swedish prosecutor claimed to be a “judicial authority” empowered to issue a warrant to have him extradited from Britain to prison in Stockholm. My written argument began quite bluntly: “The notion that a prosecutor is a ‘judicial authority’ is a contradiction in terms.”

The principle is simple, at least in Anglo-American law. Judges must, as their defining quality, be independent of government. Police and prosecutors employed and promoted by the state obviously cannot be perceived as impartial if they are permitted to decide issues on the liberty of individuals. They are expected to be zealous in working up evidence against a suspect, so they are the last people who can be trusted to weigh up impartially the evidence they themselves have drummed up. That is a matter for a court.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/31/geoffrey-robertson-assange-s-appeal-rests-on-judicial-authority.html

Poor Julian.