By Antonio Paneque Brizuela
Journalist for Prensa Latina’s Latin American newsroom
Australian journalist pioneer in the business of denunciation and the fight against evil, Almada dismisses all fraud when speaking about Assange, without alluding to the fact that he also exposed the Northern power by publishing the so-called “Terror Files” (1992) published. .
Even the statements of the Alternative Nobel Prize (2002) show no comparisons between his martyrdom in the dungeons of Paraguay in the 1970s of the 20th century and the lonely impotence of the WikiLeaks founder in the 21st century.
The fabricated poses of the prosecutor are too many for this man who, in discovering this project, was denouncing the same genocide Assange faced and suffering similar punishments for exposing similar crimes, albeit in different centuries.
“Assange has democratized the truth and enlightened the world,” said the Alternative Nobel Prize winner (2002) in a message to Prensa Latina about the Australian journalist who was jailed three years ago and now the UK intends to throw him down the throat throwing monsters.
LETTER FROM ALMADA TO THE AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER
Almada (1937), who then unveiled some 700,000 documents on this project of annihilation against the left in the region, in his note to that agency denounced the Australian government’s silence before a letter he wrote on the matter.
Almada’s late November 2018 letter, addressed to former Prime Minister Scott Morrinson (2018-30 May 2022), called for support for the campaign by human rights organizations in Latin America for UNESCO to nominate the journalist a “Goodwill Ambassador”. .
“Assange risked his life and his own safety for a humanitarian cause: freedom of expression,” argued the letter to the Canberra Executive Branch leader.
“Mr. Morrison – assured the Paraguayan investigator – has not acknowledged receipt of our letter because he swims in the same political current as Washington and London.
The Paraguayan lawyer, a member of the executive committee of the American Association of Lawyers, called for solidarity with Assange’s parents and called on “the authorities and the people of Australia to defend their illustrious fellow citizen”.
THANK YOU TO THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO
Another milestone in relation to the Paraguayan doctor of education was his recognition last year to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for granting sanctuary to the communicator, who faces imminent extradition.
The event took place “on December 6, 2021 in Asunción,” he said, “on the occasion of the awarding ceremony (to Almada) of the Legion of Honour, the highest French decoration created in 1802 by the then Emperor Napoleon I.”
“I congratulated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador – he added – for granting political asylum to 21st-century man Julian Assange.
“Indeed, the journalist is ill and the President’s offer is a sign of great solidarity that honors the political tradition in the matter of asylum,” emphasized the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize.
For Almada, “there is an urgent need to save the life of the founder of WikiLeaks, after 10 years of litigation that deprives him of his liberty. His ailing health in the unjust prison and his recent brain accident determine extraordinary deeds.
The Australian communicator’s contribution to the defense of human rights through this portal “is as immense as the cruelty of the persecution he is suffering is enormous,” the Latin American lawyer pointed out.
“Although I come from faraway Paraguay – he stressed – I insist on protecting life and defending Assange’s right to truth and justice, and in general I express my solidarity with all political prisoners in the hands of the Empire.”
A decision by the London Court of Appeal in December overturned the previous ruling exempting Assange from repatriation as he was charged over his revelations about US killings in Iraq and Afghanistan.
British judge Paul Goldspring ordered his extradition to the United States at the end of April and then the decision was entrusted to Home Secretary Priti Patel, who approved it on June 17. Assange (1971) can be sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for alleged espionage crimes.
For her part, Almada received the 2002 Alternative Nobel Prize, awarded by the Swedish Right Livelihood Foundation and created in 1980 after the Nobel Prize’s promoters refused to distinguish between human rights and environmental issues when awarding it.
The lawyer spent from 1974 to 1977 as a political prisoner in the Paraguayan prison of Emboscada, which at the time served as a kind of concentration camp for opponents, especially those who were part of the “armed activity of communist guerrillas”.
Due to their exceptional legal-historical value, the so-called “Terror Archives” are part of the UNESCO “Memory of the World” collection.
Days before London decided on June 17 to extradite the Australian journalist to the United States, the Paraguayan lawyer wrote to Prensa Latina:
“I hope the reactionary British Home Secretary will speak out in favor of Julian Assange, a civilian hero who has democratized truth by enlightening the world. With a hug, Martín Almada”.
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