Submitted on Thursday 11th April 2019
Rejected on Tuesday 14th May 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Free Julian Assange and grant him protection.
Julian Assange was originally forced into hiding by accusations from Sweden which have since been dropped and if extradited to the US he may face the death penalty. to end his life for fighting against government corruption and revealing important truths to the people is morally reprehensible.
Trump suggests there should be a death penalty for Assange: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/04/politics/kfile-trump-wikileaks/index.html
Assange charges dropped by Swedish prosecutor: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/19/swedish-prosecutors-drop-julian-assange-investigation
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This is a decision for the courts, which are independent of the UK Government and Parliament.
In any case, under UK law people cannot be extradited if there is a possibility of the death penalty being imposed following a guilty verdict.
You can read more about the case here:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/world-affairs/europe/extradition-from-the-uk-what-next-for-julian-assange/
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