Lies about Assange and UN human rights jurists imperil us all

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2987076/lies_about_assange_and_un_human_rights_jurists_imperil_us_all.html
Date Written:  2016-02-06
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18728

The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.