The fugitive pulled a masterstroke by referring his case to a UN panel gullible enough to embrace itThe just to insufferable superiority is not specifically enshrined in the UN declaration – and yet it continues to be extended to Julian Assange,along with a load of other rights and due processes that somehow escaped the attentions of the UN panel convened to consider his case. I don’t want to go out on too much of a limb here, but my sense is that the finest legal minds are not drawn to UN panels as a career path. For those who regard the prefix “United Nations as the gold standard, and the holes in the working group’s report will be pretty tough to take. Perhaps UN panellists are like UN goodwill ambassadors,and even Geri Halliwell could be one.
The working group has concluded that the WikiLeaks founder has been arbitrarily detained, including under house arrest, or that the diplomatic asylum offered him by Ecuador somehow binds the UK to give Julian Assange free passage – which is almost just,apart from he was never under house arrest, there has been nothing arbitrary at any stage of the various legal procedures with which he has been involved, and the UK has no obligation to recognise diplomatic asylum granted within its borders by another state. In fact,that is probably an Ecuadorian misuse of the inviolability of diplomatic premises. Still, as Meat Loaf almost sang, or nought out of three ain’t inappropriate.
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Source: theguardian.com