I want to invite you to give a listen to our ken and podcasts and art art news podcast, the russian file. Let me just remind everybody that throughout the conversation and we forgot quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, via twitter and facebook pages and please do include your name and affiliation just as if youre attending a live event of the Wilson Center which hope we can do against it. Id be more likely to call on you for not an anonymous blurt out. Im join today i dr. Fiona hill was a senior fellow and center for the next its a joke in the Foreign Policy program of the Brookings Institution and, of course, is that one will knows served as Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for european and Russian Affairs on National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006nine she also served as National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of of the very well received and widely read book mr. Put
Due to in the us what we see here is a person whos Due Process Rights for 10 years have been violated severely and systematically in all jurisdictions and all equal proceedings against him at every stage of this proceeding and thats something thats very difficult to comprehend that thats possible in democratic states rule of law states is that the u. K. Sweden in the u. S. Will ecuador you cant rely on any authority to protect your rights and this constant threats to be extradited to a country where you face a secret trial based on secret evidence you know by the jury elected in a population who are 85 percent of the population works for cia n. S. A. D. O. D. Or deal s. Around alexandria needs to get into the the infamous espionage court. Adjudicated by the same judge as every single other National Security defendant in recent years. This is not going to be a fair trial you know that so if youre in this situation this constant threat to be extradited there and then to receive a draconi
A fair trial you know that so if youre in this situation this constant threat to be extradited there and then to receive a draconian punishment of 175 years or maybe to reduce it to 120 in prison in the Supermax Prison and we know what the conditions are like there this is this crosses the line of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment thats not just my opinion thats a consistent opinion of myself my mandate my predecessors everybody thats actually seriously deals with that thats the threat scenario he faced for years is not being taken seriously hes been ridiculed by the press hes been mobbed by areas authorities hes been accused of all kinds of things but not given a fair chance to actually defend himself we have a swedish proceeding that is in a preliminary investigation stage for 9 years well yes the media care in fairness to them said this is. Thing to do with the revelations of war crimes people have seen the video that julius and his organization released of the cold blooded kill
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Seriously deals with that thats the threat scenario he faced 4 years is not being taken seriously hes been ridiculed by the press hes been more bitter various authorities hes been accused of all kinds of things but not given a fair chance to actually defend himself we have a swedish proceeding that is in a preliminary investigation stage for 9 years well yes the media care in fairness to them said this is nothing to do with the revelations of war crimes people have seen the video that his organization released of the cold blooded killing of journalists is not about that its about this we didnt. Allegations and i understand you claim there are 50 perceive process violations by the swedish authorities in this case yes well i am all eyes meticulously all the documents that were made available to me including the original 1st questioning d of Police Reports that the the alleged victims the older the email correspondence that has leaked between the Crown Prosecution Service and the swedish