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Människorättsorganisationer överallt ställer sig på FN-panelens sida.
Dinah PoKempner, från Human Rights Watch, är mycket frän i sin kritik (mina fetningar):
“It should not have been terribly surprising to Sweden or the United Kingdom that the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that the various forms of confinement suffered by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violate his human rights. The Working Group has many times warned that it is unlawful to force someone to choose between liberty and a fundamental right, such as asylum, which Assange now enjoys only so long as he stays inside the walls of the Ecuadorean embassy.
What is news are the deplorable rhetorical parries from the UK and Swedish governments, who both stated not just disagreement, but that the Working Group opinion would have absolutely no effect on their actions. This is not what one expects from democratic governments who usually support the UN mechanisms and international law.....
And now the UK and Sweden are big losers as well. Their fatuous dismissal of the Working Group won’t impugn this necessary and neutral body that was established by the world’s governments to uphold rights. But both have severely damaged their own reputation for being so ready to dismiss upholding inconvenient human rights obligations and their credibility as global advocates for rights by refusing to respect the institution of asylum.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/02/05/assange-following-rules-or-flouting-them
Dinah PoKempner, från Human Rights Watch, är mycket frän i sin kritik (mina fetningar):
“It should not have been terribly surprising to Sweden or the United Kingdom that the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that the various forms of confinement suffered by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violate his human rights. The Working Group has many times warned that it is unlawful to force someone to choose between liberty and a fundamental right, such as asylum, which Assange now enjoys only so long as he stays inside the walls of the Ecuadorean embassy.
What is news are the deplorable rhetorical parries from the UK and Swedish governments, who both stated not just disagreement, but that the Working Group opinion would have absolutely no effect on their actions. This is not what one expects from democratic governments who usually support the UN mechanisms and international law.....
And now the UK and Sweden are big losers as well. Their fatuous dismissal of the Working Group won’t impugn this necessary and neutral body that was established by the world’s governments to uphold rights. But both have severely damaged their own reputation for being so ready to dismiss upholding inconvenient human rights obligations and their credibility as global advocates for rights by refusing to respect the institution of asylum.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/02/05/assange-following-rules-or-flouting-them
Det är kanske naivt av mig, men jag tycker fortfarande att det är smått fascinerande hur den allmänna svenska uppfattningen verkar vara att ifall Sverige har blivit kritiserat så måste det vara fel på kritiken, och om erfarna tunga instanser som grundligen har satt sig in i frågor kommer till en slutsats som inte stämmer med den uppfattning man själv har fått genom att läsa i svenska tidningar så måste det vara de erfarna tunga instanserna som är ute och cyklar.