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Julian Assange: the price of being a Western dissident

By Wei Ling Chua - posted Tuesday, 19 June 2012


Assange is a Western dissident, he does not enjoy the soft-power of being a Chinese one. His course may be noble and like the Russian suggested, deserve a Noble Peace Prize. However, the forces that determine his faith are powerful and merciless. He may end up like Bradley Manning in the notorious US military prison stripped naked every night in isolation and suffer from harassment and sleep-deprivation with accordance to the CIA interrogation manual. Some UN officials may occasionally comment about his treatment as "cruel and degrading", most mainstream media will not report such commentaries anyway.

Manning trial by the "free" world will be in secrecy; his lawyer is reportedly struggling to have the government documents released so as to work out ways to defend him. Apparently, people who are concerned about his well being are also struggling to gain access to him.

The Australian government is fully aware of the mistreatment of Assange by the "free" world including the British authority and the Swedish, but Assange has been left alone to fend for himself.

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Wei Ling Chua is a freelance journalist who blogs at Outcast Journalist.

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