The imprisonment of Julian Assange is at once a personal issue for him and his family, a libertarian issue and a human issue.
The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents. Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the […]
Davis has been prevented from tabling a motion for debate in the Commons on the grounds that it would breach sub judice rules even though Assange’s case is being heard by a judge alone with no jury potentially liable to be influenced by outside pressure. Davis, a former chair of the Conservative Party who served […]
The torture and brutalization of Julian Assange has only been made possible by the fact that the public consents to it, and the public only consents to it because of a concerted mass media smear campaign that took place between late 2016 and his arrest in April 2019. People like James Ball are directly responsible […]
With a week until a UK court announces the verdict on Assange’s extradition case, we review his supporters and critics. Recently, calls to pardon him have grown louder, including from unlikely characters such as former US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a Republican. In September, 160 former and current world leaders and diplomats signed a […]
The UK Assange hearing – which will decide whether there are grounds for Assange to stand trial in the USA – should reach a conclusion on 4 January. The verdict will have major ramifications for free speech and media freedom. We speak to Assange’s partner about it As it stands the case is unprecedented. No […]
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Let us remember why Julian Assange is locked away in solitary confinement in a prison meant for murderers and terrorists. For publishing information on US government war crimes. They like to call it espionage. Most reasonable people would call it investigative journalism, informing people about war crimes. Informing us what is done in our name. […]
Assange is an Australian citizen, not based in the US, who published truthful information about the US, but he is being sought for extradition and prosecution in the US. Imagine if Saudi Arabia was seeking the extradition and prosecution of an Australian journalist for having published the truth about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, or […]
Very sad to inform you that folk singer Jim Radford from Veterans for Peace UK passed away recently. Read here a tribute by Ben Griffin of VFPUK. He was known and respected for many years among the WikiLeaks/Assange London community for his participation in many solidarity actions in support of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning […]
From top to bottom, the trial itself is a farce, since no one should be prosecuted for working with a whistleblower to expose war crimes, yet there are few reports questioning its legitimacy (FAIR.org, 4/12/19). On the contrary, it appears that major US news organizations have buried all the ways that the US and UK […]
Misconduct in Public Office Crime ReportsI have recently written police crime reports for Misconduct in Public Office by the following 4 people in relation to their treatment of Julian Assange.Paul Close – The CPS lawyer who secretly conspired with the Swedish prosecutor, Marianne Ny, to leave Julian’s case in limbo for many years. Close wrote […]