MP SPEAKS | I am deeply concerned over the precedents the fallout from the situation involving the detention and extradition of the Australian editor and publisher Julian Assange will set.

While the legal grounds for the charges against Assange bring up many important questions that should not be overlooked, we risk a more flagrant assault on the principles of international order, the free and open press, transparency, and accountability.

The boogieman image constructed around Assange is a monster created by the very states embarrassed through the leaks and exposés surfaced by him and Wikileaks.

These efforts demonstrate a failure to establish impartial structures and institutions that hold them to account and remain transparent...