Readers' Blog: Call for Julian Assange's release following London arrest

We condemn the arrest in London this week of the WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange and call for his release.

Julian Assange has been effectively incarcerated in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012. The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner noted in 2016, that his “Arbitrary Detention should be brought to an end”. He is a multi-award winning investigative journalist who has, since 2010, been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize.