Assange: Plea Deal With US Precludes Appeals to Top European Rights Court

Assange: Plea Deal With US Precludes Appeals to Top European Rights Court WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that one of the conditions of his plea deal with the US was that he would not file a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge the verdict. Watch Assange’s whole speech with most vivid quotes given below: “I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice for me is now precluded, as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a Freedom of Information Act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request,“ Assange told a hearing in Strasbourg. “I pled guilty to journalism... to seeking information from a source... to obtaining information... to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else,“ said Ass... Source: Sputnik International