{"id":3487,"date":"2020-12-22T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=142469"},"modified":"2020-12-22T21:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T21:33:17","slug":"top-un-anti-torture-official-urges-trump-to-send-message-of-justice-truth-and-humanity-by-pardoning-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/22\/top-un-anti-torture-official-urges-trump-to-send-message-of-justice-truth-and-humanity-by-pardoning-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Top UN Anti-Torture Official Urges Trump to Send Message of &#8216;Justice, Truth, and Humanity&#8217; by Pardoning Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Brett Wilkins, staff writer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>&#8220;WikiLeaks fights secrecy and corruption throughout the world and, therefore, acts in the public interest both of the American people and of humanity as a whole.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/headline\/thumbs\/melzer.jpg?itok=--q6HdQd\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Nils Melzer, the top United Nations anti-torture official, is urging President Donald Trump to pardon Julian Assange. (Photo: Prachatai\/Flickr Creative Commons)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/22\/top-un-anti-torture-official-urges-trump-to-send-message-of-justice-truth-and-humanity-by-pardoning-julian-assange\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Wilkins, staff writer \u201cWikiLeaks fights secrecy and corruption throughout the world and, therefore, acts in the public interest both of the American people and of humanity as\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}