Or... he committed a crime and is being investigated as any normal person would. Assange isn’t the messiah, he doesn’t get to dodge jurisprudence just because some people support what he does.
My view of Assange is that he seems to be a deeply unpleasant person in a number of respects, but that does not in any way explain or justify the long string of irregularities in how he is being treated and how this case is being conducted.
This idea that defending his right to a fair hearing implies seeing him as a "messiah" or even as a nice person, is deeply disturbing.
No normal person is investigated like that. Why make things up? Spending tens of millions on case of violating the ... Bail Act of 1976? It's obvious political persecution.
Dodging jurisprudence, that's rich. His Swedish accusers were not even investigated for blatant evidence tampering.
As any normal person would? The US wouldn't even extradite Anne Sacoolas after she ran someone over, yet go to extraordinary lengths to sneak Assange away to the US to answer to an opaque foreign court.
If a normal person would face this kind of BS (not allowed to talk to lawyers in court, trumped up and dubious extradition charges), the then there is no justice.
I don't think you quite understand what happened. He did not commit a crime unless you somehow accept that the USA is the world dominating power that it arguably is. Assange is not a US citizen and he simply published things that were given to him, which is not a crime unless you also accept that the vampire squid that is the transatlantic ruling class power structure can just convolute and misapply laws as they wish.
You seem to be one of those people that still has not come to the realization that the whole system of western government has become inherently illegitimate in and of itself through its own actions and words. It leaves people like you still saying things akin to "well, the dictator did pass a law that he can apply to anything he wakes up one morning not liking" and it placates you, as the "laws" are meant to, by implying a sense of authority through process.
What should have really happened in a sane and healthy society and civilization, is that 1) the things the people that did commit crimes by stealing and handing over classified information, should never have had to do that because the system would have harshly punished the perpetrators of the violations they exposed with execution and, 2) it would have led to the prosecution of the people who were responsible for the information and systems that allowed the release of the information that was deemed classified, again, with execution.
But instead, we have a clearly broken and systematically rotten system that is violently persecuting and prosecuting the messenger, because they did not like that they were exposed as the evil people perpetrating evil they were and that their incompetence also led to that being revealed. What this is all about really, is vengeance for exposure, for embarrassment, for disclosure that the many little dictatorial emperors don't have any clothes on and are just LARPing with way too much undeserved and unearned money and power.
This idea that defending his right to a fair hearing implies seeing him as a "messiah" or even as a nice person, is deeply disturbing.