Actress Pamela Anderson Writes To US President Donald Trump Urging A Presidential Pardon For Julian Assange
[ By Bobby Anthony ]Actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson has written to US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as she seeks a presidential pardon for her friend, the jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.Internet publisher and journalist Julian Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in April after Ecuadorean officials withdrew...
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Actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson has written to US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as she seeks a presidential pardon for her friend, the jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Internet publisher and journalist Julian Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in April after Ecuadorean officials withdrew his asylum.
Assange has been charged with WikiLeaks’ publications of ‘Vault 7’, a collection of thousands of documents about an alleged cyber-surveillance program by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) capable of compromising cellphones, smart TVs and computers with internet access produced by US companies, transforming them into microphones to spy on their users.
Assange has been on lockdown in the UK's maximum security Belmarsh Prison ever since, after lawmakers sentenced him to 50 weeks behind bars for violating bail and taking up an offer of asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in 2012, while facing extradition to Sweden to face rape charges.
He still faces extradition to the United States, where he is being accused of conspiring to hack a classified Pentagon computer, and longtime supporter Anderson fears her friend will die behind bars.
In the letter, which was published on the 'Baywatch' actress' Pamela Anderson Foundation website, she praised the US power couple, before asking a favor of them for her friend Julian Assange.
“I am always enlightened and encouraged when I see the great work that you both have achieved during your period as the leading couple of the people,” the Baywatch star wrote.
“You complement each other extremely well, Mister President with your personal touch and emotional flare that strikes a chord with the people, together with the enduring poise and presented dignity that the first lady upholds”.
“Integrity was certainly the underlying thread that defeated Hillary and brought to the world this great couple, cannoning you into the most powerful position in the world”.
She added that US President Trump would be “forever remembered as the champion you were always destined to be” and acting in Assange's favor would become his “legacy”, adding: “If you were to pardon Julian Assange and not allow the legal precedent of extradition of a fact publishing journalist for a life of torture, then the people would salute your action”.
