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@cypherpunks What is it that people in the UK don't understand about 'indeterminate detention without charge'?
He was detained without charge for many years, but there are charges now: the US unsealed their 2018 indictment against him immediately after they coerced Ecuador into revoking his asylum in April 2019, and they added more charges a month later.
As the linked article explains, he is currently charged with 17 counts of espionage and 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. He remains in His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh while fighting the US's extradition request.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange
@cypherpunks My point being that the time for UK civil society to get exercised about it has gorn and with it free enquiry.
Cameronism or Bravermanism or Sunakism, where you can dispatch undesirables to locations unknown and clobber them quietly without worrying about the Press.