The imprisonment of Julian Assange is at once a personal issue for him and his family, a libertarian issue and a human issue.
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Often when campaigning for the release of Julian Assange somebody will immediately bring up the Swedish investigation. I always prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt, as Nils Melzer the UN Rapporteur on Torture has said; “If you think Julian Assange a narcissist, a rapist, a hacker. It is not your fault, you […]
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Damage to the Soul – Craig Murray
The imprisonment of Julian Assange has been a catalogue of gross injustice heaped upon gross injustice, while a complicit media and indoctrinated population looks the other way. In a truly extraordinary twist, Assange is now being extradited on the basis of an indictment served in the UK, which is substantially different to the actual indictment […]
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” First Amendment to the US Constitution, passed 1791. Source: Van […]
The government prosecutors are trying to paint a picture of Assange as a mastermind soliciting leaks, and is charging him with violating computer crime law and the Espionage Act. It doesn’t suit their narrative to show Wikileaks as a host for a crowdsourced page where activists, scholars, and government accountability experts from across the globe […]
For example, many have taken the opportunity to criticize the new Hong Kong national security legislation over its extraterritoriality clause in Article 38, something justified by the fact that foreign actors are verifiably interfering in China’s internal affairs. At the same time, these actors already find themselves in free fall on the slippery slope […]
The US superseding indictment, lodged with the UK court, fails to disclose information regarding the true identity of key witnesses, full details of their role as FBI informants; or their criminal background. In doing so, rather than enhancing the prosecution case, the superseding indictment arguably undermines it, thus providing Assange’s lawyers with a potential legal […]
Highly Recommended viewing! Just released! A extended interview with my son Julians fiancee, A factually correct, informative program about Julians persecution & his secret life as a loving family man
Assange, he says, brought the truth of the killings to the world and exposed the lie that he and others had not.“What he did was 100% an act of truth-telling, exposing to the world what the war in Iraq looks like and how the US military lied.” Of the US indictment against Assange, Yates says: […]
Lost is the fact that he and WikiLeaks did what all journalists should do, which is to make important information available to the public, enabling people to make evidence-based judgments about the world around them and, in particular, about the actions of their governments. Given the constant drum beat of attacks on Assange from so […]
What role did you play in the CPS’s irregular handing of the Julian Assange case?Under your leadership, the CPS’s handling of Assange’s proposed extradition to Sweden to face questioning about sexual assault allegations was marred by irregularities. Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi has spent years in a protracted legal process with the CPS to access information on […]