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UN rights expert urges the UK and Sweden to give good example to the world and implement the Assange ruling

15 February 2016

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"United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas today called on the Governments of the United Kingdom and Sweden to accept and implement without delay the findings and recommendations of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention* in the case of Julian Assange.

The UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order recalled that a just and sustainable international order requires that States respect, promote and fulfill their human rights treaty obligations and observe the recommendations of human rights treaty-bodies, working groups and rapporteurs."

See the full text: UN rights expert urges the UK and Sweden to give good example to the world and implement the Assange ruling (UN Human Rights, link)

See: UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Opinion No. 54/2015 concerning Julian Assange (Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) (pdf)

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