Assange says he, Snowden and Dotcom are all victims of “lawfare”

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said like him, exCIA analyst Edward Snowden and German internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, are victims of a “lawfare” declared by the United States.

In statements to Radio New Zealand from the Ecuador Embassy in London where he has been given political asylum Assange said it was “quite interesting” both Snowden and Dotcom were accused in Alexandra in the U.S. state of Virginia.

“That jurisdiction is simply picked because it has the highest density of government employees. It’s 5km from the centre of Washington DC, it has the CIA, Department of Homeland Security, the IRS ... within the jury catchment area,” he said.

According to Assange, Alexandra prosecutors were involved in “pushing US law into more than 67 different jurisdictions”, something he explained as “lawfare” in order to get “access to territory by pushing your laws into another territory instead of your military.”

The Wikileaks founder also located within this “lawfare” the TransPacific Partnership signed this week by 12 AsiaPacific nations, including the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean embassy for more than three years now to escape accusations of sexual assault charges in Sweden and extradition to the U.S. for WikiLeaks.

Meanwhile, whistleblower Snowden is currently in exile in Russia after revealing a massive system of spying on American citizens by the U.S. government, and Dotcom, accused of internet piracy, is facing trial in New Zealand for extradition to the U.S.