Roger Waters, bassist and vocalist for Pink Floyd, will reportedly perform his iconic song Wish You Were Here in front of the British Home Office, in solidarity with Julian Assange. Award- winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger who is a guiding light in the struggle for Human Rights Press Freedom and a personal friend of Julian Assange. will also speak ' on solidarity with Britains political prisoner.'
Waters is a vocal supporter of Assange, and said he was “ashamed to be an Englishman” after the UK arrested the whistleblower in April. He has used his concerts to draw attention to Assange’s case, and recently took aim at Twitter, calling it “Big Brother” after it suspended a prominent account supporting the WikiLeaks founder.
According to WikiLeaks on Twitter, the performance by the famous musician, also known for his political activism, will be on Monday at 18:00 local time, as part of a campaign for freedom of expression, and against the eventual extradition of the founder of Wikileaks to the United States.
Assange was arrested last April 11 at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, after the government of that country withdrew the political asylum he was granted seven years ago.
Expeditiously tried by a British court, the Australian cyberactivist is now serving a 50-week prison sentence in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison for violating bail granted in 2012 in connection with alleged sexual offences committed in Sweden.
In addition to being requested by the Swedish justice system, Assange is facing an extradition order issued by the United States government, which seeks to hold him accountable for the disclosure on Wikileaks of hundreds of thousands of documents and secret files of US diplomacy and the US Army. The 17 charges filed by the US Attorney's Office, including conspiracy to commit espionage, carry a total sentence of 175 years in prison.
Last February, when Assange was still in the Ecuadorian diplomatic
mission, Waters was among those who urged the Australian government to
take action on the case.
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(Post script 3/09/19 Roger Waters Sings Wish You Were Here In Support of Julian Assange )
