Human Rights

Julian Assange's request of Ecuador for political asylum is premature and legally baseless. Assange oddly claims that Australia has abandoned him, and that he is at risk of being sent to face the death penalty in the U.S.

I fear we’ll end up in an endless round of recriminations [between the United States and Russia]. What happened to Sergei Magnitsky is appalling, but the problem is all of the instruments we have are difficult to apply.