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by Our Foreign Desk
HUNDREDS of human rights groups, law professors and campaigners have urged the governments of Sweden and Britain to respect a United Nations panel’s call to let WikilLeaks founder Julian Assage leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
A statement signed by 500 people from more than 60 countries, including 100 academics from 65 universities, was delivered to the Swedish and British permanent representatives to the UN in Geneva yesterday.
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
