So why is only Assange the one being charged?
Foxy,
This case is more mentality orientated than technicality !

The British Kangaroo Court has agreed to send Julian Assange before America's Judge Freisler for a show trial. Yet Donald Trump who incited a riot at the Capitol Building in Washington leading to death, walks free, go figure so called American justice.

Is Mise,

I remember my father and grandmother talking of Lord Haw Haw, and they didn't see the slightest injustice in his hanging. Mind you, my grandmother was a fervent commie. What I did note from reading of him was that he got legal representation and a trial. His appeal went to the House of Lords. I don't believe in the death penalty, but I think he got fair justice for those times and was a truly horrible character.

Fester,
Of course he was a horrible person, but that’s not the point, he was not a British citizen so they murdered him.
Another person who paid with his life was Sir Roger Casement, the Irish Nationalist, he was hanged on the parsing of a sentence in the relevant Act, that was written in Latin; the mere placing of a comma, but that was enough excuse for Judicial murder but as the Brits had also murdered most of the Leaders ot the 1916 Easter Rising, after an illegal military hearing in Dublin, Casement’s fate was no surprise.
His chances of clemancy were destroyed by the British Govt. by allegations of homosexuality, which had, of course, nothing to do with his case.
Assange will no doubt join the long list of British political victims.

Thank you Is Mise,

No love between the Brits and the Irish, that is for sure. I have been much entertained reading of these characters you mention.

Cheers

The last man hanged in Australia was Ronald Ryan, 3rd February 1967. Ryan was a criminal, and he had committed many illegal acts, but the evidence and eyewitness accounts that Ryan shot prison officer George Hodson was inconclusive. Fully expecting the death sentence would be commuted to life in prison the jury found Ryan guilty of murder. With a state election looming the Premier of Victoria, Sir Henry Bolte, insisted that the death sentence be carried out, declaring it would win him the election. To this day, many claim Ryan's execution was politically motivated.