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ask the man who 1st gave. former ecuadorian president rafael correa wants as a. case means for a legal u.s. backed regime change in latin america although some more coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st straight to our top story which it's no exaggeration to say impinges on the ability to tell truth all around the world in every country in the world we can leaks expose lies and corruption about the powerful and this before outgoing u.k. minority government leader theresa may welcome the capture of the founder of wiki leaks julian assange i'm sure that the whole house will welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested julian assange the foreign secretary and politician who wants to replace tourism a added but what we've shown today is that no one is above the law julian assange is no hero but gerry corbin's labor shadow home secretary diane abbott beg to differ the reason we are spacing this this afternoon is entirely to do with the

whistle blowing activities in asuncion bikini it is this whistle blowing activity into illegal move mass murder murder of civilians and corruption in a grand scale that has put judy in the songs in the cross has of the us that ministration been another contender for juries amazed job diane abbott's counterpart in government said this after the arguable washington proxy of ecuador violated asylum article 14 of the universal declaration of human rights catalyzing asylum just capture ecuador's actions recognized that the u.k. criminal justice system is one it which rights are protected and in which contrary to what mr santelli supporters may claim he and his legitimacy interests will be protected but are julian assange his interests being protected by the british justice system in the past few days we understand the wiki leaks founder was moved to the president firm area of britain's belmarsh prison in southeast london and joining me now via skype from geneva is someone who has visited his sons in jail

the united nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel inhuman. in order grading treatment or punishment professor niels meltzer thanks for coming back on now i know the findings have been published in the past 24 hours of these the preliminary findings and a full report will be out in july. alka how did you how did you make such a statement like in 20 years of work with victims of war violence of birth a persecution you've never seen. what you saw it's a statement not made lightly worked with a bit himself warrant and violence for 20 years of hurt in war areas and i've seen obviously atrocities collectors' forms of violence will be much more bloody in a sense than what we are talking about here but what possibly shocked me that this particular case is that a single individual has been isolated and single that by several democratic states

and persecuted systematically and in the state manner to the point of breaking and of course there's a lot of focus here about the mainstream media and politicians presumably judges that this is really a sex crime case in sweden do you really think we should we should be aware more of the fact that the crown prosecution service under the shadow breakfast secretary starmer appeared to beg swedish authorities to prosecute as for sex crimes or the swedish authorities didn't want to. look into these allegations and already. will to me shoulder from the beginning actually cooperated with the swedish police and tried to keep himself will be available for questioning and to help results case and actually after a few days this case was closed by the prosecutor saying that there was no evidence that it crime has been cruel or all and he was explicitly allowed to leave the

country then a few days later a different prosecutor takes up just case again. you know this is an arrest warrant and then from them consistently refuse to intrude butu innocence from sweden through sky or conference and or when afterwards when he was in the end to see to visit him there for many years he that was refused so without any cards at the same time sweden hat hackers these types of question eggs across borders in many other cases so there was no reason not to do that. so what we can see is really consistently that descriptions already have spread a rape suspect narrative to suggest a violent crime that does not correspond to be allegations that were actually made by the complainants and and the prosecutor dees these disproven are investigation in a way addicted to innocence to defend himself it is

a effective way at lest she expose himself to a much greater risk of being. extradited to the united states and the related risk for serious rights eventually swedish prosecution is to london but by then of course he had sought asylum in the ecuadorian embassy do you see that this narrative the the women involved in those original allegations a dropping the allegations that one point and then the case resuming do you see all of this as judicial harassment in contributing to what you say in the press release for your report to cruel and degrading treatment kolata lewdly i mean the whole episode of julian assange being holed up in that it is he was because of the swedish absolution requests and not because he wanted to escape extradition to sweden but because the swedish at the same. fuse beer and he

would not you know extradited for the united states very weak evidence actually money. just in a sense that has served to keep your innocence arbitrarily confined in genesee for many years and has also triggered then that the criminal prosecution for burial by omission into your case for which he's now being detained in the wash. since the un tend to belmarsh refer to medical experts specializing in the examination of potential torture victims past hamilton a swedish lawyer told reuters that it's not possible to conduct a normal conversation with truly innocent how did you find him while there is obviously a patient doctor confidentiality that i cannot reach but what i can say that. julie son tagg physical consequences clearly from not being able to access dental and medical care for several years these physical consequences have been addressed adequately at least the most urgent advocates of it by

a prison health care service the much more serious aspect is how he has been mentally and emotionally affected by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary and byron she has been exposed to for several years so here he really showed all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed to psychological torture and i'm not saying this is an emotional. worth but prisoners political prisoners prisoners of war for 20 years and but what we do in these cases you convert the doctors and psychiatrists of the center for cultural call which is designed to examine potential victims of torture and will treatment and severely light these standards and it was the evidence was will readily clear that julian assange had been exposed to several. forms of treatment unit and degrading treatment which should look

terribly can only be described. back to the judicial elements of this and i think so i'm sure your department probably is aware the british foreign secret service has been implicated in torture many times before what do you make of the original arrest warrant judge emma buff and author upheld it and she came under scrutiny because her. husband's co directors of a security company included the former head of m i 6 a case of justice not being seen to be done also presumably contributing to that psychological torture to his hands is currently suffering from certainly all these aspects all these multiple and complex proceedings are very seriously actions clearly contributes to intense stress and anxiety in capacity of preparing a reasonable defense because he doesn't have enough access to documents and to 2 lawyers who are years i have heard about these allegations of conflict of interests

and i cannot assert. accuracy of these allegations obviously but i want it well my understanding is that the defense counsel julian made a huge bench of the court hearing and raising these complaints to the judge upset and judge seems to have just kind of brushed his allegations off the table and not only learn but then that reaction is my understand he accused julian assange of being a narcissist which comes across as you know likely said very unprofessional to me if not if not most clearly biased and sorry you just mentioned the legal documents presumably he is getting these legal documents we just heard the secretary said to javid when saying when he was captured by british authorities from the ecuadorian embassy that he is now protected by british just as he is getting legal documents right did he tell you that you should probably talk to his lawyer through that and

precise information or standing it is that he does not have sufficient access to use case files that he is not able to exchange documents. that those lawyers are certainly not in it in the in the way it is required in view of the complexity and the multiple of layers of these proceedings and are now. so that certainly has a me a factor that adds to his stress today and where he simply cannot cope with the all the demands of these proceedings now human rights law requires that a defendant get enough time to prepare as the fence. commensurate with the complexity of these proceedings and that is not the case to show ready that during such ok will you directly accuse the u.k. government of creating an atmosphere of impunity encouraging uninhibited vilification and abuse what happens if it continues to do that and what can

actually the un do to mitigate the alleged persecution of persecution you allege that british authorities not only british authorities but other governments as well are involved in the in this case to thank the authorities of of the british authorities would be to allow only the allowed me to access mr sunshine truckie conductress assessment but what i found is really profoundly shocking because we can see that we here have you know states with democratic traditions the rule of law traditions that are really isolating just one individual and preventing him from exercising his most basic principle rights presumption of innocence. and prettier than adequate defense could it of course some people might argue it all be just a case of incompetence a big mistake or is there intentionality in this psychological torture in the forms of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment you outline. could be

it is almost inconceivable that we have so many layers of so profoundly these viewed and by just the steps and the judicial proceedings. that could just be you know a coincidence to me it all speech to a scenario where you have the united states. wanting to make an example out of julian assange for exposing her that she has made super uniques and provide embarrassing for united states and that you know the swedish proceedings are not be conducted in good faith but really abused judicial proceedings in order to facilitate that extradition and also the way the u.k. the wall that it's all just proceedings. are much better so that's more of a job professor niels melts i thank you but. after the break the ecuadorian

president who 1st gave asylum to geneva sondra failed correia calls what is happening to the wiki leaks founder a crime against humanity and all this of all coming up about 2 of going underground . there's an petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's a vital issues. one just actual forum coverage on r.t. . facebook and google started with

a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always be one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results on what they think you should be seeing if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more rope we give them the sooner we're all. welcome back to the program we heard from the un special report on torture

professor detailed is a leg ations of the british torture of julian assange joining me now from brussels is former ecuadorian president rafael correa who 1st granted asylum to us that he would be subjected to the kind of treatment outlined in all this program former president thanks so much for being on the program have you spoken 1st of all to your success then marino about julian songes life now being at risk. and i will not talk to my successor because it's very or butter he won with now where political program people vote in order to continue to see this in revolution political protests and this political ploy are brought into that their protection for dinner not so much but let the merino was a kind of protege you appointed him vice president yes man he was a 3rd term you know him is neat that everybody tell us what you felt when you heard

on april the 11th that lenin merino your former vice president now president had invited u.k. police into ecuador's london embassy i was horrified i am neil julian julian assange is what's going on then a long time ago because more n o tried to negotiate with him one week after taking office you know he received a nice little old man a for reform air campaign chief of term now in jail in the united states because of corruption and he offered to manage for unto the american government to be a leader a union hasn't but the american government can support him financially so we knew that angel on our side was condemned that we never imagined there will be so brutal for instance allowing british police to entering our embassy that this against the

vienna convention and that is against international lol the in the american human rights convention julia sons human rights. over all especially those against the. introduce yourself as a look because the most important part of the silent east to protect their little jeep from people who suing him not to the lever. and that is sadly what development of more not as modern as government has done and that is against also. our constitution article 2 for people one especially these out of people since that is their content and not believe or i repeat. a person that has been granted i would have cited you just said something about donald trump's former campaign manager paul manifold the british guardian newspaper

who used which used to be a partner to wiki leaks said the man afford to met with julian a son in london or in the job was a like no other who work was not true i don't know but because i have never met the jeweler has i i don't know you have managed. to down a sense that we can lease said that was a lie lennon marina says he has had assurances that julian a songe will not be executed for coming and he's a liar but. let's assume that that is true by what about the other human rights for instance to have a fair trial it's not possible under this condition to have a fair trial in the united states if you learn of time she said today that to the united states he. is already content he will not have a. fair terror targets. that in marino and the ecuadorian government released

pictures of julian a songe they said that he behaved in an impolite way the media here in britain laughed at him those were the grounds that marino says that under which ecuador continues to for fairly international legal obligations even by delivering him to british authorities don't you believe can you imagine to release it because he's impolite kind of. more n almost look for a better they're used if it geisha in order to explain to a war until he story whether he has done that history what really terrible but of course you cut off julian assange has internet access when you were president yes because he was interfering in you know state elections and that being hillary

clinton for the reason we were on him you have to stop he continued ok we'll stop the internet service but after that after a while after the election really internet is worse install yet who told you that he was interfering with the 2016 u.s. presidential election well that was clearly the attacks against hillary clinton and a just if you can was not that these 2 ok that actually took but some also has several truth he he didn't say anything about donald trump so that was very unfair of course donald trump but then went on to win the election what does lenin merino have to gain for ecuador for himself by as you say violating the 1951 refugee convention when he submitted to the american government absolutely not just because of the cases you have searched.

because of that even with the i.m.f. because of the new military support of the united states in the quote everything in it against our constitution everything against our political program that it was a winner in the last election but he has had elections sucked he's returned his betraying a quote on people he's reiterating a. he's probably going to broaden he's been saying everything he's absolutely submitted to the american interest american government interests that in marino says it is your economic mismanagement that means why he that is the reason behind the new austerity program in the ecuador and it's not the capture of julian as connected to the i.m.f. agreement that's just taken place he has to see something come out even though a.m.'s in 2000 cementing said its own economy was very weak of that he had

that he has to say something or it took to try to just the fact that he tried to unisom but also let me tell you to accord him people we are experts in i.m.f. adjustment programs i just meant all weeks they have being a failure absolutely failed so to continue with all these kind of things is not because they are looking for the welfare of the contour well for their people not they're looking for something that's on for farming interest and so you really think there could have been a deal for julian a songe over the i.m.f. agreement yes yes i think he's related of course you know to very well the. united states have little capacity inside the i.m.f. so in order to receive their financial support from the i.m.f. well doing it by the government most. it was half the approval of

the a major government and of course julian assange it's not just that but the unisons case is related to she has had support from the i.m.f. and the cia base of miles above of course of course everything everything there is dong they don't have a base now because it is not necessary with the technological advances they need just. in the space of aircraft is in a quandary not in a space elevator after they have a we have now a code a lot of military personnel from the united states is enough with that otherwise the base will be there already but they will meet anymore a military base in just the same crash with that military person. what about the i and they papers you may have to explain you think they're linked also to the julian

assange capture so we have discovered that mourinho is a corrupt and that we are not imagining that we have even the secret account that he has the american support of the media support that cannot make itself more technical or so everybody welcome to the these are not powers are protecting this but the case is so extremely clear he's huge. perhaps the biggest corruption case involving our president i think british and so we have even the secret account with money laundering and it could account financing really looks really good looks are a lie for a bit more than a slimy on good sense of court and this is the count i can tell you that count still. are. but a boy are bound by nama ok let in marina denies the allegations tell me what happened

when you tried to draw attention to this on your facebook account including that number which we will be about this same day when julian assange is was kicked out he get out of our embassy my fan base face will frumpish was blocked by state without any warning without any explanation without any information during 2 months i have tried to to get back my son base and finally is a member telling me that. he this is him it's the season is a final decision they will not open again my front page i don't want the same day when. in there you learn a science case happened in that well remembers in law and will try and get a comment from facebook do it lisa act the u.s. do it and it's going to be. well do you expect that in marino now to support the

united states and the european union in their support for one guy though in the attempts currently going on to overthrow the venezuelan government. once he's doing that already a month. he's been saying everything you know i got into our political program through here is an iced away though. i love playing old soul he's against venezuela age my who took herself for things of course are very close ally of the european union and the united states of course led in marino has signed up to china's belton road what role do you think china will have because wiki leaks and julian assange to expose to washington interference in the americas but i can tell you that it is that that is your political war between the

united states and china and latin america. is in the middle of the battlefield they are fighting for latin america's place in the united states we cannot allow that the influence chinese influence in their region so they are pursuing any it's like you know their governments that are going to have close relationships with it china and finally do you believe julian the sands will be extradited to the united states i don't know much and i hope to be wrong i hope to be mistaken by that. former president rafael correa thank you and that's it for the show will be back on monday when donald trump comes to britain to meet the queen and maybe nigel farage until then keep in touch by social media we'll leave you with german born british socialist world wolfgang defending german corbin and former london mayor ken livingstone against charges of anti-semitism it was he who famously protested tony

blair's iraq war at labor's 2005 conference in brighton and he passed away this week at the age of 95. it was about who have those proven we know you. in the hollow who knew we were living. after this horrible crime that your learned . i'm deeply hurt. if there ain't. if you used for this purpose. the victors of the heart of how do all of political persuasions know this is how the labor party today handled this said dissent from a bad he's been a member since before tony blair was born that. policy stuart certainly were joking this was their response to an old bat heckling jack straw during a debate on iraq.