First letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs , sent on the 19th of February 2021

From: Aotearoa Assange [mailto:aotearoa4assange@gmail.com]

Sent: Friday, 19 February 2021 12:22 AM

To: N Mahuta (MIN) <n.mahuta@ministers.govt.nz>; A Sio (MIN) <A.Sio@ministers.govt.nz>

Subject: 20210218 To The Minister of Foreign Affairs : Hon. Nanaia Mahuta : Julian Assange : United Nations Human Rights Commission must intervene to Protect and Empower Julian Assange

To the Minister of Foreign Affairs (and Associate Minister )

Hon. Nanaia Mahuta and Hon. Aupito William Sio.

Kia ora.

Alan Preston here in Mangawhai , Northland for Aotearoa4Assange.

We understand that the award-winning , Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Australian journalist and founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange , is being held in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison in London in the United Kingdom, awaiting an appeal by the United States to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges relating to his role in making available evidence of breaches of the Geneva Convention by British and U.S. military during their invasion and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan . ( see : https://wardiary.wikileaks.org )

It would seem that there exists here a clear case of intimidation and reprisal by the states that stand to be implicated by the evidence that Julian Assange has made available through Wikileaks and that therefore , the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights must engage with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ( OHCHR ) to actively intervene to protect and empower him.

Please contact the NGO Liaison team of the Human Rights Council Secretariat to express y/our grave concerns.

hrcngo@ohchr.org and especially to : reprisals@ohchr.org

Naku noa na Alan Preston

How to share information about cases of intimidation and reprisals

www.newzealandersforjulianassange.org.nz

Facebook group : New Zealanders For Julian Assange

The Minister of Foreign Affairs responded ....