278/2018 • 8 DECEMBER, 2018 WEEKEND ISSUE
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Ecuador: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can leave London embassy Conditions have been met for Julian Assange to leave Ecuadorʼs embassy in London
Britain has guaranteed that the WikiLeaks founder would not be extradited to any country where his life would be in danger.
Duo sings for peace in Cameroon Law graduate turned musician Linford Ci tunes his guitar as he gets ready for a performance in the small town of Santa in Cameroonʼs Northwest Region. The 31-year-old traveled to the rural town together with Emmanuel Bilashi to preach a message of peace. "We are tired of war, violence. We need a bright future," says Bilashi. "If anything is wrong in the house, you yourself, you must contribute. … That is what motivated us to bring our music to our fellow brothers, our fellow sisters. Let them drop their weapons – violence is not what we need but peace and love."
Ecuadorʼs president, Lenin Moreno, said on Thursday that "the way has been cleared" for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave the countryʼs embassy in London. Assange, 47, has spent the last six years in Ecuadorʼs embassy to avoid arrest and extradition to Sweden on allegations of sexual assault. Swedenhas since dropped the case, and Ecuador says there are no pending extradition requests against him. Read more: Whistleblowers should be ‘protected not prosecuted’ The Australian activist, who published huge caches of files belonging to the United States Department of State and the Pentagon in 2010, has repeatedly expressed fears that Britain may extradite him to the US. Moreno, however, said Britain guaranteed that Assange would not be extradited to a country where his life would be in danger. "The British government has told us that the constitution of Great Britain bars extradition of a person to a place where his life is in danger or he faces the death penalty," Moreno said in a radio interview. Moreno added that Assange has to "serve a short sentence" in Britain for violating his bail conditions. Ecuador has been looking to evict Assange from its London embassy for several months amid souring relations.He sued Quitoin October for violating his "fundamental rights" and restricting his access to the outside world. Read more: Julian Assange: Five years without sunlight Carlos Poveda, one of Assangeʼs lawyers, said last month that Assange was pre-
pared to give himself up to British police provided he receives assurances he would not be extradited. Barry Pollack, another one of Assangeʼs lawyers, told the Telegraph newspaper that Ecuador should continue providing asylum to his client. "The suggestion that as long as the death penalty is off the table, Mr. Assange need not fear persecution is obviously wrong," Pollack told the paper. "Since such charges appear to have been brought against Mr. Assange in the United States, Ecuador should continue to provide him asylum." US prosecutors inadvertently revealed the existence ofa sealed indictment against Assangelast month, according to WikiLeaks. The indictment suggested that the US will seek Assangeʼs extradition if he leaves the embassy, though the charges he faces were not known. Read more: Opinion: Tolerating Wikileaks Assange could be questioned in the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election that brought President Donald Trump to office. WikiLeaks has been accused of leaking thousands of emails allegedly stolen by Russian hackers from the Democratic campaign of Hillary Clinton. British newspaper The Guardian reported that Trumpʼs former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, held secret talks with Assange before the leak. Muellercharged 12 Russian spiesin July with conspiring to hack the Democratic National Committee in an effort to sway the election.
Thousands of Jews in Europe Indiaʼs farmer Myanmar women alarmed by rising suicides severely forced into anti-Semitism affect rural women The German mass daily Bild reported Bhagat didnʼt know marriages in China Friday that behind the EU ministersʼ Vijayshree about the recent United Nations OfThousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry and have children, according to a report released Friday. An estimated 7,500 women from the war-torn Kachin and northern Shan states were sold to men across the border between 2013 and 2017, the study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reported. The youngest women were sold for $15,000 (around €13,000).
declaration was "a large EU survey among 16,395 Jews in the whole of Europe," apparently still under wraps in Brussels. A high 89 percent of those respondents felt that anti-Semitism in Europe had increased strongly since 2013, and 28 percent had suffered antiJewish abuse, some of it violent, in the past year, said Bild, citing the study. Thirty-eight percent were considering whether to emigrate because of the violent trend.
fice on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report which said the home was the most dangerous place for women, but she concurred with its message. A few feet away from where she sat, some women farmers raised their arms and chanted slogans, demanding justice from the government. She took notice of them, but then said, "Thatʼs fine. But who will protect us from our families?"