Before the 31st United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, 500 human rights organizations, law professors, former UN office holders, and high-profile rights defenders including four Nobel Peace Prize laureats and a Pulitzer Prize winner, have urged the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom to respect the United Nations’ decision to free Julian Assange. The statement was delivered to the Swedish and UK Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in Geneva.
The document delivered to the Swedish and UK representatives stated:
“We the undersigned, including legal and human rights organisations, academics, and policymakers condemn the reactions of the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom to the finding by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention that Julian Assange is arbitrarily detained.
The governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom are setting a dangerous precedent that undermines the United Nations Human Rights system as a whole. We urge Sweden and the United Kingdom to respect the binding nature of the human rights covenants on which the decision is based, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; as well as the independence, integrity and authority of the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
We therefore call on the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom to comply without further delay with the Working Group’s findings and “ensure the right of free movement of Mr. Assange and accord him an enforceable right to compensation, in accordance with article 9(5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”
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This is the updated list of professors that have endorsed the statement for the immediate release of Mr. Assange
(The full list of the over 500 signatories further bellow)
Professor Manuel Alcántara Sáez, Professors of Politics, Spain
Professor Mads Andenas, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention, Norway
Professor Dr. Renata Aquino Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Professor Atilio A. Boron, Political scientist, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professor Jean Bricmont, Academic, University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Professor Tom Bäckström, Academic, University Friedrich-Alexander (Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany
Professor Alicia Cebada-Romero, Professor of International Criminal Law at Universidad , Spain
Professor Noam Chomsky, Academic, MIT, US
Professor John Cooper, Academic, Bucknell University, US
Professor Willem de Lint, Professor in Criminal Justice, Flinders University, Australia
Professor Willem de Lint, Professor in Criminal Justice, Flinders University, Australia
Professor Olivier de Schutter, Former UN Special Rapporteur, University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Professor Radhika Desai, Academic, Author, University of Manitoba, Canada
Professor Mirta Díaz-Balart, Academic, UCM, Spain
Professor Hedvig Ekerwald, Academic, Uppsala University, Sweden
Professor Aant Elzinga, Academic, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Professor Mireille Fanon-Mendes, Academic and Activist, University Paris V-Descartes, France
Professor Med. dr. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chairman Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, Sweden
Professor Marianne Franklin, Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network, University of London, UK
Professor H. Bruce Franklin, Cultural Historian and Scholar, Rutgers University, US
Professor Johan Galtung, Professor of Peace Studies, Norway
Professor Jayati Ghosh, Economist, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
Professor Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media & Communications, Sydney University, Australia
Professor Mary Heath, Associate Professor of Law, Flinders University, Australia
Professor Edward S. Herman, Academic, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, US
Professor Wang Hui, Intellectual, China
Professor Venko Kanev, Academic, University of Rouen, France
Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Chair of Department Sydney University, Australia
Professor Priscilla Karant, Academic, New York University, US
Professor John Keane, Professor of Politics, Sydney University, Australia
Professor John King, Emeritus Professor, Warwick University, UK
Prof. Michael Lebowitz, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Canada
Prof. Geert Lovink, Research Professor, Institute of Network Cultures, Netherlands
Professor Rick Luttmann, Academic, Sonoma, US
Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Sydney University, Australia
Professor Mahmoud Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government Columbia University, Uganda
Professor Robert Manne, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University, Australia
Professor Michael Mansfield QC, Barrister, Legal Scholar, City University, UK
Professor Aitor Martínez-Jiménez, Professor of Public International Law and International Criminal Law , Spain
Professor Patrick McCurdy, Associate Professor in Communications, University of Ottawa, Canada
Professor Michel Mujica, Academic and Diplomat, Ecuador
Professor Manuel Ollé Sese, Professor of International Criminal Law , Spain
Philip Pettit, Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, US
Professor Rafael Pla-Lopez, Academic, University of Valencia, Spain
Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Founding Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT., Professor of Law, US
Professor Ignacio Ramonet, Academic, France
Professor Robert Reed, Academic, Boston College, US
Professor Stuart Rees , Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Med. dr. Anders Romelsjö, Vice chairman Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, Sweden
Professor Héctor Salazar Zapatero, Academic, Hiperderecho, Peru
Professor Saskia Sassen, Sociologist, Columbia University, US
Professor Richard Sennett, London school of Economics & New York University, UK
Professor Jean-Marc Sorel, Professor of International Law, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Professor Robert Sparrow, Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia
Professor Joan Subirats, Academic, Universidad Autónoma Barcelona, Spain
Brita Sundberg-Weitman, Former Chief Judge and Associate Professor of Public International Law, Sweden
Professor Emeritus Michael Edward Tigar, Duke Law School and Washington College of Law, US
Professor Manuel Villoria-Mendieta, Director of Government Administration and Public Policy, Institute Ortega y Gasset, Spain
Professor Ben Wagner, Sociologist, Germany
Professor Joel Weisberg, Academic, Carleton College, US
Professor Stephen Yellin, Academic, Stanford University, US
Professor Spencer Zifcak, Professor of Law, Australia
Nobel Prize winners
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, former judge, lawyer, Iran
Tawakkol Karman, Politician, Journalist, Nobel Peace Laureate 2011, Yemen
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Co-founder Women for Peace, Northern Ireland
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Argentina
Pulitzer Prize winner
Laura Poitras, 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner, Academy Award for Best Documentary 2014, US
Besides the professors and Nobel Prize winners, the signatories included:
more than 500 high profile signatories from more than 60 countries
more than 100 human & legal rights organizations including 16 national associations of lawyers and jurists
25 Freedom of expression organizations including Reporters Without Borders, the EFF and The Freedom of the Press Foundation.
The immediately former UN Special Rapporteur for Arbitrary Detention Mads Adenas and five other former UN Special Rapporteurs, Experts and Working Group Chairs.
The cities of Madrid & Barcelona
Activists: Ai Wei Wei, Pussy Riot, Naomi Klein & Arundhati Roy
Over 100 academics from 65 universities
The Case Assange Fact-Checker
[Text below from the site Justice for Assange]
Significant information has come to light since the Assange story was originally covered in the media and UK courts in 2012.
The facts, as contained in official court documents and other official material on this case, are the following:
1. The UN formally found in February 2016 that Julian Assange is unlawfully detained by Sweden and the UK. On 5 February 2016, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention announced its decision after a 16-month investigation into his case. Sweden and the UK participated in the process, but their arguments failed to convince the panel that their actions against Julian Assange were justified. The UN ordered Sweden and UK to immediately release him and compensate him for violating his rights.
2. Assange has not been charged and he is not wanted for trial. The UK Supreme Court acknowledged that Assange is not charged in Sweden. The prosecutor acknowledged in correspondence with UK authorities that the matter is a ’preliminary investigation’, and that no decision had been made to charge.
3. Assange does not “believe” there is an ’espionage’ case against him, it is a fact. On 19 May 2016, the FBI told a US court that it continues to actively pursue Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. On 15 March 2016, the US Department of Justice filed a 113 page document to court saying that there is a pending national security prosecution against Assange and WikiLeaks. A federal warrant from 2012 shows that the WikiLeaks case concerns Espionage, Conspiracy to commit Espionage, Theft of Government Property, Electronic Espionage (classed as a terrorism offence under the Patriot Act), and (general) Conspiracy. Assange’s alleged co-conspirator, Chelsea Manning, is sentenced to 35 years for revealing information to WikiLeaks. She filed an appeal against her sentence on 18 May 2016.
http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/wiki…
4. Assange has not “refused to come to trial or indeed be questioned” Assange has asked that he be interrogated in the UK by Swedish authorities since 2010, but the prosecutor declined. Correspondence from 2015 shows Assange agreed unconditionally to a questioning. Since he was arrested in 2010, 44 other people have been questioned in the UK by Sweden. The Swedish Court of Appeal (confirmed by Sweden’s Supreme Court) made a finding in 2014 that the prosecutor in the case had breached her duty in the Assange case by refusing to progress the case by questioning Assange in the UK for 5 years.
5. Assange did not “flee”. Assange stayed in Sweden for 5 weeks in order to be questioned, during which time the prosecutor declined to question him on a number of occasions. Assange left Sweden with the consent of the prosecutor. He entered the Ecuadorian embassy and applied for asylum, which is his right, and was granted it in relation to the US espionage case.
Agreed facts to the UK Supreme Court 2012 Ecuador Foreign Minister Ricardo Paino Asylum Grant Press Conference transcript
6. Assange has already been cleared and the woman says the police made it up in order to ’get him’. On August 25 2010, Assange was cleared of the suspicion of ’rape’ by Stockholm’s Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne, who stated she “made the assessment that the evidence did not disclose any offence of rape”. On 25 of August, the prosecutor stated that “The conduct alleged disclosed no crime at all and that file (K246314-10) would be closed”. The case was only resurrected after a politician, Claes Borgstrom, intervened in the case. The police report states that she felt “railroaded by police and others around her”. While she was at the police station to inquire about HIV tests she sent messages to friends saying that she that she “did not want to put any charges on JA but that the police were keen on grabbing him” (14:26) and “did not want to accuse JA for anything”; that “it was the police who made up the charges”; and that she was “shocked when they arrested JA” because she “only wanted him to take a [HIV] test” (17:06).
Agreed facts to the UK Supreme Court 2012
Sworn Affidavit by Julian Assange, September 2013
Follow @assangevsweden for up to date information on the case.
The Full list of Signatories
1. Organisations
Acceso Libre, Venezuela
ACI Participa, Honduras
ActiveWatch-Media Monitoring Agency, Romania
Acção Académica para o Desenvolvimento das Comunidades Rurais, Mozambique
Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Bolivia
Agência Publica, Brazil
Alternative Intervention of Athens Lawyers (AIAL), Greece
American Association of Jurists (AAJ), US
Arab Lawyers Union (ALU), Middle East
Articulação de Empregados Rurais do estado de MG (ADERE-MG), Brazil
Artistas, Cientificos y Movimientos Sociales, Cuba
Asamblea Nacional de Afectados Ambientales, Mexico
Asociación Mayoritaria de Afrodescendientes del Ecuador AMAE, Ecuador
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), Argentina
Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, Egypt
Associação de Rádios Públicas do Brasil (ARPUB), Brazil
Associação Portuguesa de Juristas Democratas (APJD) (Portuguese Association of Democratic Jurists), Portugal
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, Australia
Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism, Brazil
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Canada
Capitulo Cubano De La Red En Defensa De La Humanidad De Intelectuales, Cuba
Center for Constitutional Rights, US
Center for International Law, Singapore
Centre Europe-Tiers Monde (CETIM), Switzerland
Centre for Independent Journalism, Malaysia
CHARTA 2008, Sweden
City of A Coruña, Spain
City of Barcelona, Spain
City of Madrid, Spain
Code Pink, US
Coletivo Juntos! – Por outro futuro, Brazil
Comision Nacional de Organizaciones Sociales de Uruguay, Urugauy
Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT), Brazil
Comite Carioca de Solidariedade a Cuba, Brazil
Comite en Solidaridad con la Causa Arabe, Spain
Comité Chileno De Solidaridad Con Palestina, Chile
Comité de Derechos Humanos de Base de Chiapas Digna Ochoa, Mexico
Comité de Solidaridad con los Pueblos, Latin America
Comité Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos CDH, Ecuador
Comunidad de Software Libre de Nicaragua (GUL-NIC), Nicaragua
Confederación de Trabajadores y Servidores Públicos Nacional OSTNA, Ecuador
Confederación Intercultural Campesina del Ecuador AMARU, Ecuador
Consulta Popular, Brazil
Convergencia Nacional de Organizaciones Sociales del Ecuador, Ecuador
Cooperativa de Trabalho em Comunicação e Cultura Desacato, Brazil
Coordenação Nacional de Entidades Negras (CONEN), Brazil
Coordinador Nacional Agrario de Colombia CNA, Colombia
Cuba Si France, France
Demand Progress, US
Democratic Alliance for Knowledge Freedom, India
Derechos Digitales, Chile
Electronic Frontier Foundation, US
Equal Education Law Centre, South Africa
Eva Joly Institute for Justice & Democracy (EJI), Iceland
Executiva Nacional dos Estudantes de Biologia (ENEBIO), Brazil
Federación Española Pro Derechos Humanos, Spain
Federación Internacional Pro Derechos Humanos-España, Spain
Federação dos Estudantes de Agronomia do Brasil (FEAB), Brazil
Festivales Solidarios de Guatemala, Guatemala
Fora do Eixo, Brazil
Foro de Abogados de Izquierdas-red de Abogados Democratas (FAI-RADE), Spain
Foro de Comunicación para la Integración de Nuestra América, Latin America
Foundation for Fundamental Rights, Pakistan
Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu, India
Free Software Mancha West Bengal, India
Free Software Movement Karnataka, India
Free Software Movement Maharashtra, India
Free Software Movement of India, India
Freedom of the Press Foundation, US
Fundacion Karisma, Colombia
Fundación Imagen, Bolivia
Fundación Pueblo Índio del Ecuador, Ecuador
Fundación Vivian Trías, Urugauy
Fórum Nacional pela Democratização da Comunicação (FNDC), Brazil
Giuristi Democratici (Italian Democratic Lawyers Association), Italy
Grupo Tortura Nunca Mais – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Guerrilleros Por la Paz GUEPAZ, Colombia
HackLab de Cochabamba, Bolivia
Hagámonos El Paro, Guatemala
Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), India
Initiative for Freedom of Expression, Turkey
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, US
Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, Azerbaijan
Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos Políticos-IBEP, Brazil
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Intersindical Central da Classe Trabalhadora, Brazil
IT for Change, India
Japanese Lawyers International Solidarity Association (JALISA), Japan
Joao Daniel, Federal Congress Representative, Workers Party, Sergipe, Brazil
JustNet Coalition, India
Juventud en Progreso, Ecuador
Jóvenes ante la Emergencia Nacional, Mexico
La Corporación Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restrepo” (CCAJAR), Colombia
La Quadrature du Net, France
Levante Popular da Juventude, Brazil
Liga Española Pro Derechos Humanos, Spain
Luna del Sur A.C. Oaxaca, Mexico
Marcha Mundial das Mulheres (MMM), Brazil
Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas (MMC), Brazil
Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB), Brazil
Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores (MPA), Brazil
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (MST), Brazil
Movimento Nacional de Rádios Comunitárias (MNRC), Brazil
Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, Mexico
Movimiento De Solidaridad Nuestra America, Mexico
Movimiento Mega, Brazil
National Association of Democratic Lawyers of South Africa (NADEL), South Africa
National Lawyers Guild, US
National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, Philippines
Nouvelles Alternatives pour le Développement Durable en Afrique (NADDAF), Togo
O Grupo tortura Nunca Mais, Brazil
Observatorio por el Cierre de la Escuela de las Américas, Chile
Observatório da Mulher, Brazil
Organización de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de África, Asia y América Latina (OSPAAAL), Cuba
Organização “Coletivo Quilombo”, Brazil
Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Gaza, Palestine
Pastoral da Juventude Rural (PJR), Brazil
Periódico Resumen Latinoamericano , Latin America
Podemos, Spain
Prensa Comunitaria, Guatemala
President del Partido Revolucionario Febrerista, Paraguay
President Fundación Manuel Gondra, Paraguay
Progress Lawyers Network, Belgium
Progressive Global Commons
Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (ProDesc), Mexico
Proyecto mARTadero, Bolivia
Red Alba TV, Latin America
Red Alternativa de Informacion Vientos del Sur VISUR, Colombia
Red Latina Sin Fronteras, Latin America
Red Nacional Communia, Brazil
Red Tz’ikin, Guatemala
Rede Ecumênica da Juventude (REJU), Brazil
Reporters Without Borders / Reporters Sans Frontières, France
Revista Reflexión, Peru
Rättssäkerhetsorganisationen (The Rule of Law Organisation), Sweden
Secretaría Operativa de ALBA, Latin America
Sindicato Unificado dos Petroleiros de São Paulo, Brazil
Society for Knowledge Commons, India
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Thailand
Spanish Association for International Human Rights Law (AEDIDH), Spain
Sursiendo, Costa Rica
Swadhin, India
Swecha, India
The Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA), Haiti
Union de Juristas de Cuba, Cuba
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru
Universidad Popular del Buen Vivir, Ecuador
União da Juventude Rebelião (UJR), Brazil
União da Juventude Socialista (UJS), Brazil
União Nacional dos Estudantes (UNE), Brazil
Veterans for Peace, US
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Switzerland
World Forum for Alternatives, Venezuela
2. Individuals
Jean-Michel Jarre, Electronic Pioneer Musician and Composer, UNESCO Ambassador and President of CISAC, France
Heidie Moreno Castelli, Dr in Law, Writer (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina) Living in Paris, France
Enrique Acosta Estévez, Human Rights Activist, Paraguay
Mirta Acuna de Baravalle, Co founder Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Argentina
Phillip Adams AO, Journalist, Australia
Juan Agosto, Journalist, Argentina
Shahzad Akbar, Human rights lawyer, Foundation for Fundamental Rights (FFR), Pakistan
Santiago Alba-Rico, Writer, Spain
Marina Albiol, Member of the European Parliament, Spain
Professor Manuel Alcántara Sáez, Professors of Politics, Spain
Tariq Ali, Writer and Publisher, UK/Pakistan
Martín Almada, American Asociation of Jurists Executive Committee, Right Livelihood Award winner 2002, Paraguay
Azyz Amami, Blogger and cyber-activist, Tunisia
Slim Amamou, Activist and former Secretary of State for Sport and Youth, Tunisa
Alejandra Ancheia, Executive Director and Founder, ProDESC, Mexico
Alejandra Ancheita, Human Rights Defender, Mexico
Professor Mads Andenas, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention, Norway
Jacob Appelbaum, journalist and programmer, Tor Project, US
Profa. Dra. Renata Aquino Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Carmen Aristegui, Anchor of Aristegui CNN Español, Mexico
Renata Avila, Lawyer, Guatemala
Pepe Baeza, Photographic Editor, Spain
Aral Balkan, Founder of Ind.ie, Turkey
Olivia Ball, Human Rights Specialist, Australia
Edith Ballantyne, Secretary General (WILPF) 1969 – 92, awarded Gandhi Peace Award 1996, Switzerland
Adam Bandt, MP, Australia
Greg Barns, barrister & former National President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Australia
David Barsamian, Investigative Journalist, Armenian-American
Andrew Bartlett, Research Fellow, ANU, Australia
Helene Bergman, Journalist, Sweden
Patricia Bermúdez, Iniciativa Guayaquil, Ecuador
Almudena Bernabeu, Director Transitional Justice Program, Center for Justice & Accountability, Spain
Valeria Betancourt, Internet Rights Expert, Ecuador
Frei Betto, Writer, Brazil
Jeremy Bigwood, Investigative Reporter, US
Johann Binninge, Founder and Chairman of the Legal Certainty Organization, Sweden
William Blum, Author, US
Professor Atilio A. Boron, Political scientist, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Luchezar Boyadjiev, Artist, Bulgaria
Estela Bravo, Documentary filmmaker, US
Dr. Benedetta Brevini, Journalist and Lecturer, Australia
Professor Jean Bricmont, Academic, University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Luis Britto-García, Writer, Venezuela
Gilbert Brownstone, President, Brownstone Foundation, US
Dr. Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez, Academic, Writer, Cinema director NY University, Philosopher, Writer, Mexico
Dr. Scott Burchill, Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia
Al Burke, Editor Nordic News Network, Sweden
Julian Burnside, QC, Australia
Professor Tom Bäckström, Academic, University Friedrich-Alexander (Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany
Maria Stella Caceres, Director: Museum of Memory: Dictatorship and Human Rights, Paraguay
Dr. Agnes Callamard, Director Colombia University Global Freedom of Expression Project, former Chef de Cabinet Amnesty International, US
Maria Augusta Calle, Asambleísta de PAIS, Presidenta Comisión RRII d Asamblea Nacional, Ecuador
Peter Carey, Author, Australia
Remo Gerardo Carlotto, Diputado de la nación Argentina por la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mike Carlton, Journalist, Australia
Guillermo Carmona, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina
Anibal Carrillo, 2013 Presidental Candidate, Paraguay
Jordi Casanova, Political Officer, Dominican Republic
Bernard Cassen, Academic, University of Paris 8, France
Professor Alicia Cebada-Romero, Professor of International Criminal Law at Universidad , Spain
Mercedes Chacin, Director Epale, Venezuela
Ramon Chao, Journalist and Writer, Spain
Professor Noam Chomsky, Academic, MIT, US
Dr. James Cockroft, Lecturer and writer, New York State University, US
Gabriella Coleman, Academic Writer, McGill University, US
Professor John Cooper, Academic, Bucknell University, US
Javier Couso, Member of the European Parliament, Spain
Alfonso Cuarón, Film Director, Producer, Acedemy Award for Gravity, Children of Men, Y tu Mama Tambien, Mexico
John Cusack, Actor, US
Joao Daniel, Central Única dos Trabalhadores – CUT, Brazil
Roy David, Author, UK
Pablo A de la Vega , Regional coordinator Inter-American Platform for Human Rights, Democracy and Development, Latin America
Adail Ivan de Lemos, Journalist, artist and Filmmaker, Brazil
Professor Willem de Lint, Professor in Criminal Justice, Flinders University, Australia
Professor Olivier de Schutter, Former UN Special Rapporteur, University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Professor Radhika Desai, Academic, Author, University of Manitoba, Canada
Mohamed Diab, Screenwriter and Director, Egypt
Josefina Duarte, President Febrero Revolutionary Party, Paraguay
Paul-Emile Dupret, legal expert and staff advisor at the European parliament, Belgium
Professor Mirta Díaz-Balart, Academic, UCM, Spain
James Early, Academic, US
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, former judge, lawyer, Iran
Professor Hedvig Ekerwald, Academic, Uppsala University, Sweden
Osman El-Hajjé, Former Chair-Rapporteur of UN Working Group on Enforced Disapperances, Lebanon
Daniel Ellsberg, Former United States military analyst and source of Pentagon Papers, US
Professor Aant Elzinga, Academic, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Brian Eno, Musician and Artist, UK
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Argentina
Edgardo Esteban, Journalist and Writer, Argentina
Ahmed Ezzat, Human Rights Lawyer, Egypt
Professor Mireille Fanon-Mendes, Academic and Activist, University Paris V-Descartes, France
Gaël Faye, Musician, Burundi
Luis E. Sabini Fernández, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chairman Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, Sweden
Alberto Ferrari, Journalist, Argentina
Marcelo Ferreira, Academic, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tom Findlay, Recording Artist, UK
Jeremy Fox, Journalist and Writer, Open Democracy, US
Alberto Fraguas-Herrero, CEO Instituto de Estudios de la Tierra, Spain
Maria Luiza Franco Busse, Journalist, Brazil
Professor Marianne Franklin, Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network, University of London, UK
Professor H. Bruce Franklin, Cultural Historian and Scholar, Rutgers University, US
Jane Franklin, Historian, Author, US
Dr. Des Freedman, Academic, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Alipio Freire, Journalist, Writer and Artist, Brazil
Professor Johan Galtung, Professor of Peace Studies, Norway
Lidia García Díaz, Coordinadora de Incidencia Política del Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos, Ecuador
Nuria García Sanz, Equipo Jurídico Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España, Spain
José Luis García-Siguero, Academic, University of Madrid, Spain
Baltasar Garzon, Jurist, Fundación FIBGAR, Spain
Franck Gaudichaud, Lecturer, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Professor Anders Romelsjö, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Vice chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights
Marcela Gereda, Journalist, Guatemala
Canan Gerede, Film-maker, Turkey
Bennu Gerede, Actress, Turkey
Professor Jayati Ghosh, Economist, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
Peggy Gish, Former co-director of the Appalachian Peace and Justice Network, Christian Peacemaker Team, US
Charles Glass, Author, Journalist, and Broadcaster, US
Professor Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media & Communications, Sydney University, Australia
Dr. David Goldberg, Editor, Australia
Horacio González, President of the National Library of the Argentine Republic, Argentina
Adelaide Gonçalves, Historian, Brazil
Walter Goobar, Journalist, Argentina
Belén Gopegui, Writer, Spain
John Goss, Journalist, UK
Kevin Gosztola, Journalist, US
Andrew Greig, Writer, UK
Anand Grover, Former UN Special Rapporter on Health, Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India, India
Rafaela Guanes de Laino, Organización de Mujeres Campesinas e Indígenas (CONAMURI), Paraguay
Sol Guy, Film & Music Producer, Canada
Bill Hackwell, Photojournalist, Resumen Latinoamericano, US
Dr. Harry Halpin, Academic, MIT, US
Laura Hanna, Co-founder Debt Collective, US
Marta Harnecker, Writer, Chile
Nozomi Hayase, Writer, Japan/US
Professor Mary Heath, Associate Professor of Law, Flinders University, Australia
Chris Hedges, Journalist, US
Amado Heller, Editor, Argentina
Tom Henheffer, Journalist, Canada
Professor Edward S. Herman, Academic, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, US
Scott Horton, Host of Anti-War Radio, US
Srećko Horvat, Philosopher, DiEM25, Croatia
Dr. François Houtart, Co-Founder World Social Forum, Ecuador
Andrew Hsiao, Editor Verso Books, US
Professor Wang Hui, Intellectual, China
Emin Huseynov, Journalist and human rights activist, Azerbaijan
Iole Iliada, Fundação Perseu Abramo, Brazil
Maria Antonieta Izaguirre, Phycologist, Venezuela
Andrés Izarra, Journalist and Politician, Venezuela
Ivanka Jenkings, Publisher, Brazil
Diane Johnstone, Journalist and Author, France
Eva Joly, MEP, former investigating magistrate and Presidential Candidate, France
Alicia Jrapko, Solidarity activist, Resumen Latinoamericano, US
Marcelo Justo, Journalist, Argentina
Professor Venko Kanev, Academic, University of Rouen, France
Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Chair of Department Sydney University, Australia
Professor Priscilla Karant, Academic, New York University, US
Dr. Athina Karatzogianni, Academic, Leicester University, UK
Tawakkol Karman, Politician, Journalist, Nobel Peace Laureate 2011, Yemen
Claudio Katz, Economist, Argentina
Professor John Keane, Professor of Politics, Sydney University, Australia
Bernard Keane, Journalist, Australia
Stephen Keim , Barrister, South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation, Australia
Zach Kerschberg, Filmmaker, US
James Kesteven, Documentary Film-Maker, Australia
Maina Kiai, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Kenya
Axel Kicillof, Former Minister of Finance, Argentina
Professor John King, Emeritus Professor, Warwick University, UK
Dr. Bernard Kirtman, Academic, UCSB, US
Naomi Klein, Author, Canada
Mary Kostakidis, Journalist, Australia
Hans Otto Kroeger, Atorney, Paraguay
Dennis Kucinich, Former presidential candidate and Congressman, US
Domingo Laino, President Plataforma de Estudio e Investigación de Asuntos Campesinos, Paraguay
Salim Lamrani, Writer and Academic, University of La Réunion, France
Archie Law, Executive Director ActionAid, Australia
Pepijn Le Heux, Attorney, Netherlands
Michael Lebowitz, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Canada
Dr. Margarita Ledo Andión, Journalist, Writer and Film-Maker, USC, Spain
Pablo Leighton, Academic, University of Western Sydney, Chile
Bibiana Leme, Deputy Editor Boitempo, Brazil
Jonathan Lethem, Novelist, US
Ken Loach, Film Director, UK
Barbara Lochbihler, Member of the European Parliament, Germany
Antony Loewenstein, Journalist, Author and Political Activist, Australia
Geert Lovink, Research Professor, Institute of Network Cultures, Netherlands
Michael Lowy, Sociologist, France
Kintto Lucas, Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ecuador
Senator Scott Ludlam, Senator, Australia
Tony Lujan, Politician, Argentina
Professor Rick Luttmann, Academic, Sonoma, US
Jake Lynch, Associate Professor, Sydney University, Australia
Ryan Lynn, Actor, US
Maj Wechselmann, Swedish author and prize-winner film director and documentary producer
John R. MacArthur, Journalist, Author, President of Harpers magazine, US
Gavin Macfayden, Executive Director, Center for Investigative Journalism, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Stefano Maffei, Lawyer, Italy
Paolo Magagnoli, Research Associate, Queensland University, Australia
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Co-founder Women for Peace, Northern Ireland
Rachel Maher, President EngageMedia, Australia
Professor Mahmoud Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government Columbia University, Uganda
Eduardo Mangas, Lawyer, Nicaragua
Professor Robert Manne, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University, Australia
Professor Michael Mansfield QC, Barrister, Legal Scholar, City University, UK
Sanjuana Martinez, Journalist, Mexico
Eusebio Veron Martinez, Secretario de Organización del Partido Paraguay Tekopyahu e integrante de la Coordinadora de Desarroll, Paraguay
Professor Aitor Martínez-Jiménez, Professor of Public International Law and International Criminal Law , Spain
Alberto Mas, CAP Coordinator and Journalist, Argentina
Mwalimu Mati, Former head of Transparency International Kenya, Kenya
Professor Patrick McCurdy, Associate Professor in Communications, University of Ottawa, Canada
Nick McKim, Senator , Australia
Dr. Cynthia McKinney, Former U.S. Congresswoman and 2008 Presidential Candidate, US
Gayle McLaughlin, Politician, US
Hind Meddeb, journalist and filmmaker, France
Amina Meddeb, Diplomat, France
Bartomeu Melià, Jesuit Priest, Autonomous University of Social Movements, Mexico
Bonita Meyersfeld, Director, Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Alan Mills, Writer, Guatemala
Alex Mitchell, Journalist, Australia
Samwel Mohochi, Executive Director Kenyan Section of International Commission of Jurists, Kenya
Edgar Morin, Philosopher, France
Evgeny Morozov, Author, Belarus
Jacqueline Moudeina, Right Livelihood Award winner 2011, Chad
Professor Michel Mujica, Academic and Diplomat, Ecuador
Craig Murray, Former UK ambassador, UK
Carmen Márquez-Carrasco, Academic, Derechos Humanos y Globalización, Spain
Cecilia Nahón, Former Argentinain Ambassador to US, Argentina
Mirjana Najcevska, Former President of the Helsinki Committee, UN Expert, Macedonia
Jean-Luc Nancy, Philosopher, France
Toni Navarro, Cinema Director, Organización Internacional pro Derechos Humanos, Spain
Enrique Naveda, Journalist, Guatemala/Spain
Eric Nepomuceno, Writer, Brazil
George Newhouse, Lawyer, National Justice Project, Australia
Tim Norton, Digital Rights Watch, Australia
Fís Nua, Political Party, Ireland
Rebecca O’Brien, Film Producer, UK
Tomás Ojea Quintana, Former SR on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Argentina
Professor Manuel Ollé Sese, Professor of International Criminal Law , Spain
Dr. Winston Orrillo, Author, Premio Nacional de Cultura del Perú, Peru
Jordi Ortega, Promotor de Forum Ecòlogic, Forum Ecòlogic, Spain
Carlos Ortellado, Coordinador de la mesa nacional por los DDHH del Paraguay, Paraguay
Jean Ortiz, Academic, University of Pau & Pays de l’Adour, France
Okoth Osewe, Author and Blogger, Kenya Stockholm, Sweden
Elizabeth O’Shea, Lawyer, Australia
Yongjun Park, Academic, Hongik University, South Korea
Melissa Parke, MP, Australia
Airton Paschoa, Writer, Brazil
Gastón Pauls, Writer, Argentina
Maja Pelević, Writer and Dramaturg, Serbia
Rene Perez, Musician (Calle 13), Puerto Rico
Philip Pettit, Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, US
Bernard Pignerol, Conseiller d’Etat, Government of France, France
John Pilger, Journalist and Filmmaker, Australia/UK
Professor Rafael Pla-Lopez, Academic, University of Valencia, Spain
Laura Poitras, 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner, Academy Award for Best Documentary 2014, US
Vladimir Pomakov, writer, Bulgaria
Dirk Poot, Politician (Pirate Party of the Netherlands) and Programmer, Netherlands
Jesselyn Raddack, Lawyer & former Department of Justice ethics chief, US
Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Founding Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT., Professor of Law, US
Ana Maria Ramb, Writer & Editor, Argentina
Professor Ignacio Ramonet, Academic, France
Sonia Randhawa, Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF), USA
Justin Randle, Researcher, Australia
Michael Ratner, President Emeritis Centre for Constitutional Rights, US
Professor Robert Reed, Academic, Boston College, US
Madeleine Rees OBE, Lawyer, UK
Professor Stuart Rees , Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
Víctor Regalado, Journalist and Filmmaker, El Salvador
Dr. Ellie Rennie, Deputy Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Australia
Miguel Repiso, Journalist, Argentina
Lee Rhiannon, Senator, Australia
Janet Rice, Senator , Australia
Daniel Richter, Artist, Germany
Angela Richter, Director and Writer, Germany
Jennifer Robinson, Lawyer, Australia
Dr. Rigmor Robèrt, M.D, Sweden
Silvio Rodriguez, Composer and Musician, Cuba
Martin Rodriguez-Pellecer, Journalist, Guatemala
Yudith Rolon, Director General Justicia y Reparación Defensoría del Pueblo, Paraguay
Andrew Ross, Academic and Writer, New York University, US
Peter Rosset, Academic, Michigan University, Mexico
Agustin Rossi, Minister of Defense 2013 – 2015, Argentina
Arundhati Roy, Author, India
Guy Rundle, Journalist, Australia
Douglas Rushkoff, Writer, Lecturer, Media Theorist, US
Emir Sader, Academic, Brazil
Professor Héctor Salazar Zapatero, Academic, Hiperderecho, Peru
Felix Salvador Kury, Program Director & Faculty Advisor, Clínica Martín-Baró, SFSU-UCSF, US
Luc Sante, Writer, Belgium
Ivan Santos, President Organizacion Aculco, Spain
Professor Saskia Sassen, Sociologist, Columbia University, US
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