{"id":15517,"date":"2019-04-13T07:35:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15517"},"modified":"2019-04-25T07:13:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T11:13:40","slug":"nobel-peace-laureate-maguire-requests-uk-home-office-for-permission-to-visit-her-friend-nobel-peace-nominee-julian-assange-ln-prison-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15517","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Laureate Maguire Requests UK Home Office for Permission to Visit Her Friend Nobel Peace Nominee Julian Assange ln Prison in London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… EDUCATION FOR PEACE …<\/p>\n

A press release from the Peace People<\/a><\/p>\n

`Mairead Maguire has requested UK Home Office for permission to visit her friend Julian Assange whom this year \u00a0she has nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize\u2019<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u2018I want to visit Julian to see he is receiving medical care and to let him know that there are\u00a0 many people around the world who admire him and are grateful for his courage in trying to stop the wars and end the suffering of others\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u2018Thursday 11th April, will go down in history as a dark day for the Rights of humanity, when Julian Assange, \u00a0a brave and good man, was \u00a0arrested, \u00a0by British Metropolitan Police, forcibly removed without prior warning,\u00a0 in a style befitting of a war criminal, from the Ecuadorian \u00a0Embassy, and bundled into a Police Van.\u00a0 It is a sad time when the UK Government at the behest of the United States Government, arrested Julian Assange, a symbol of Freedom of Speech as the publisher of Wikileaks, and the worlds\u2019 leaders and main stream media remain silent on the fact that he is an innocent man until proven guilty, while the UN working Group on Arbitrary Detention defines him as innocent. The decision of President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador who under \u00a0financial pressure from the US has withdrawn asylum to the Wikileaks founder, is a further example of Unites States\u2019 global currency monopoly, pressurizing other countries to do their bidding or face the financial and possibly violent consequences for disobedience to the alleged world Super Power, which has sadly lost \u00a0its moral compass. Julian Assange had taken asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy seven years ago precisely because he foresaw that the US would demand his extradition to face a Grand Jury in the US for mass murders carried out, not by him, but by US and NATO forces, and concealed from \u00a0the public.<\/p>\n

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Where in the world can we find good leadership today?<\/a><\/p>\n

Julian Assange, Is he a hero for the culture of peace?<\/a><\/p>\n

Free flow of information, How is it important for a culture of peace?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, it is my belief that Julian Assange will not see a fair trial.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0As we have seen over the last seven years, time and time again, the European countries and many others, do not have the political will or clout to stand up for what they know is right, and will eventually cave into the Unites States\u2019 will. We have watched Bradley Manning being returned to jail and to solitary confinement, so we must not \u00a0\u00a0be naive in our thinking: surely, this is the future for Julian Assange.<\/p>\n

I visited Julian on two occasions in the Ecuadorian Embassy and was very impressed with this courageous and highly intelligent man.\u00a0 The first visit was on my return from Kabul, where young Afghan teenage boys, insisted on writing a letter with the request I carry it to Julian Assange, to thank him, for publishing on Wikileaks, \u00a0the truth about the war in Afghanistan and to help stop their homeland being bombed by planes and drones. All had a story of brothers or friends killed by drones while collecting wood in winter on the mountains.<\/p>\n

I nominated Julian Assange on the 8th January 2019 for the Nobel Peace Prize. \u00a0I issued a press release hoping to bring attention to his nomination, which seemed to have been widely ignored, by Western media. \u00a0By Julians courageous actions and others like him, we could see full well the atrocities of war.\u00a0 The release of the files brought to our doors the atrocities our governments carried out through media.\u00a0\u00a0 It is my strong belief that this is the true essence of an activist and it is my great shame I live in an era where people like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and anyone willing to open our eyes to the atrocities of war, is likely to be haunted like an animal by Governments, punished and silenced. \u00a0\u00a0Therefore, I \u00a0believe that the British government should oppose the extradition of Assange as it sets a dangerous precedent for journalists, whistle-blowers and other sources of truth the US may wish to pressure in the future. This man is paying a high price to end war and \u00a0for peace and nonviolence and we should all \u00a0remember that.<\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s Note: This press release was reprinted without attribution by David Swanson on his website<\/a>. Google News does not list either one, despite the fact that the original is clearly labeled as a press releases.)\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… EDUCATION FOR PEACE … A press release from the Peace People `Mairead Maguire has requested UK Home Office for permission to visit her friend Julian Assange whom this year \u00a0she has nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize\u2019 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u2018I want to visit Julian to see he is receiving medical care and to let him … Continue reading Nobel Peace Laureate Maguire Requests UK Home Office for Permission to Visit Her Friend Nobel Peace Nominee Julian Assange ln Prison in London<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,75],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-15517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-for-peace","category-europe","tag-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}