Letters: Assange’s fate
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Re “Assange gets political asylum from Ecuador,” Aug. 17
In 1998, the British government faced a Spanish court’s request to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for the assassination, torture and exile of thousands of people. Pinochet was not extradited.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s treatment byBritain’s current conservative government offers a sharp contrast with Pinochet’s case. Assange never assassinated or tortured anyone, yet he is facing potentially harsher punishment than Pinochet ever would have.
Politics and a desire to bend to U.S. demands, more than anything else, seem to be very important in the British government’s efforts to deny Assange asylum in Ecuador.
Luis Suarez-Villa
Irvine
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