Danish whistleblower: I should have been acquitted
international |
anti-war / imperialism |
news report 
Saturday September 24, 2005 16:05
by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
Grevil will now appeal the the European Court of Human Rights
At the conclusion of an appeal against the six-month prison sentence passed last November, the Danish High Court today gave former Danish intelligence officer Frank Grevil a reduced sentence of four months. Grevil was put on trial for disclosing classified threat assessments that raised questions about the basis for the Danish government´s decision to participate in the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Below is a translation from a Danish news service.
Grevil: I should have been acquitted
Frank Grevil thinks the sentence of four months’ prison is a poor compromise relative to his wish to be acquitted. He will now appeal the sentence.
After the verdict, Grevil did not conceal the fact that he would have been happy with a suspended sentence. But the former intelligence agent pointed out that a suspended sentence would not acknowledge the fact that there is sometimes a need to leak information, even though it is unpleasant for the government.
Frank Grevil is now prepared to go all the way to the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg – and thus to the top of the legal system – with his case, because he thinks this would be the only logical step.
“This may eventually mean that Denmark will be given a severe reprimand. And Danish society deserves that also. Among the states that call themselves democracies, the Danish is probably one of the most closed,” says Frank Grevil.
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Comments (1 of 1)
Jump To Comment: 1The U.S. Imperialist invasion of Iraq is what is politically called an unjust war and therefore the jailed whistle blower is not guilty ,and should be let go and compensated for the abuse he has gone through. As the illegal U.S. war proceeds, the world will come to understand the huge crimes of British and American Imperialism even more. They have Murdered directly and indirectly (with sanctions, and the first invasion and the intitating of the Iraq-Iran war in the 80's of last century ) over 2,750,000 arab people. That is a war for the monopolization and control of the worlds oil supplies, and as such is illegal by the worlds peoples estimation through the United Nations Charter, and every anti-fascist covenant signed since the second world war. Shame on the Danish government. Colonial aggression has long been condemnded since the League of Nations and before by the socialists. The Canadians fought fascist-Nazis behaviour, which used as its methods, 1) Might makes right, 2) pre-emptive strikes, 3) Unilateralism. Now we see the Bush-Blair cabal re-newing these exact discredited methods. What ever happened to Marx's concept of a free world market economy? You have a world to win that way, and only the chains of aggressive war to lose. End war not endless wars.
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