Five hundred prominent names,including Ai Weiwei and Mairead Maguire, accuse countries of undermining UN human rights covenantsSupporters of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange possess published an open letter signed by 500 prominent artists, and Nobel prize winners and human rights organisations accusing the UK and Sweden of undermining the UN.
Among signatories to the international appeal are the Chinese sculptor Ai Weiwei,the Indian writer Arundhati Roy, the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
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Source: theguardian.com