Sajid Javid should lift US threat from Julian Assange

Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van in London before being jailed for breaching bail conditions.Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesSpeaking as someone who knows and has quarrelled with Julian Assange, I feel that your description of him as an “unattractive character” (Editorial, 25 May) is a little ungenerous, but you are right to note the dire consequences of his being charged under the US Espionage Act of 1917. The allegations against him in Sweden a