Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has condemned Swedish prosecutors who yesterday dropped a rape investigation into WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, saying the entire thing was “an entire bogus set-up” from the start.
Rogers instructed RT that the assertion from Swedish prosecutors claiming that the proof towards Assange had “weakened” since 2010 was a “mealy-mouthed bunch of bullsh*t” and that there was “no proof to help the concept [Assange] injured anyone.”
It’s partly due to this entire “set-up” that Assange continues to be struggling in London’s Belmarsh Jail with no actual technique of regulation being adopted, Waters mentioned. “Assange is being slowly murdered by the state as a result of he instructed uncomfortable truths about US conflict crimes,” he added.
The regulation is being thrown out the window on the behest of the rising mono-empire that’s the USA — and it’s so incorrect.
The British rock ‘n’ roll legend mentioned that Assange’s continued detainment behind bars was “purely political” and that there isn’t a query that he’s a political prisoner who’s getting used as a “warning” to others who may be inclined to do actual journalism.
In any sane universe, Julian Assange could be lauded as a hero of the individuals.
Waters additionally took goal at mainstream media, the place he mentioned it’s now practically inconceivable to discover a truthful narrative of occasions. “To seek out the reality lately is extraordinarily tough,” he mentioned.
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Assange is at the moment languishing in Belmarsh awaiting a listening to on extradition to the US, the place he may face 175 years in jail for publishing leaked army paperwork and exposing conflict crimes. A London courtroom dominated towards the whistleblower in October after his legal professionals sought to have the extradition listening to delayed.
