The BBC, SKY and Channel Four News have enlisted a load of fake lefts whose idea of democracy is guilty-until-proven-innocent. Imperialist states who prop up Afghanistan's corrupt dictator (who legalises rape within marriage) cannot be trusted to give Assange a fair trial. Swedish authorites who refuse to make a fair trial possible are to blame for the fact that an innocent man (innocent until proven guilty that is) who is a political prisoner is kept under house arrest in a space barely bigger than a telephone box. Sections of the so-called left are denying the possibility that any man is innocent when accused of rape or that the state would ever dream of engaging in conspiracies to frame their enemies. Scottsboro Boys, Martin Luther King's attempted framing by J Edgar Hoover, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO... The list is endless.