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Teachers and Students => Debates => Topic started by: astarmathsandphysics on August 16, 2012, 12:03:46 pm

Title: Are there no political prisoners in the West?
Post by: astarmathsandphysics on August 16, 2012, 12:03:46 pm

Yes frankly there are.
Julian Assange is holed up in the Ecuadoren embassy, asking for asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden on a trumped up rape charge, possibly at the instigation of the American Government.
Anton Vickerman gets 4 years for running his links website surfthechannel.com, prosecuted at the instigation of the US government and film inductry.