Donald Trump’s administration is targeting Julian Assange as “an enemy of the America who must be brought down” and his very life could be at risk if he is sent to face trial in the US, the first day of the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition hearing has been told.Lawyers for Assange intend to call as a […]
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The US is finally making its pitch in a UK court to have Julian Assange extradited, but with Assange, nothing is simple.Today, Andrew Wilkie’s face-to-face encounter with the Wikileaks founder in a London prison, and the last minute twists complicating the case. Source: Julian Assange’s last stand – The Signal – ABC Radio
The 48-year-old Australian is the figurehead of the whistleblowing website that exposed government secrets worldwide, notably the explosive leak of US military and diplomatic files. … Now, he will finally get his day in court as a British judge will this week hear the case for sending him to the US to face charges relating […]
The controversy surrounding Julian Assange depends daily and his case goes to a US extradition hearing in London on Monday. Many Australians are demanding that the UK Government immediately release the Australian Journalist and publisher.The Brisbane Assange Action Queensland is a community group formed by Queenslanders fighting for the WikiLeaks journalist’s immediate release.They will stage a protest […]
I have dreaded the beginning of the extradition hearing because I do not want Assange back in this country to be tried under the Espionage Act. So that’s my general point of view. I do not think that he should be tried under the Espionage Act because the act was designed for espionage and not […]
The prosecution is working to extradite Assange to the US under a US-UK extradition treaty, a treaty whose contents the prosecution now says we should ignore because they explicitly forbid political extraditions. The prosecution says it doesn’t matter anyway because Assange is not a political actor, yet in 2010 the US government that’s trying to […]
United Nations torture expert says he has been left “genuinely outraged” by the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as speakers at an event at London’s Frontline Cub this week warned the case should be considered an “attack on all journalists.” … “The judiciary in this country, unfortunately in this case, has proven either unwilling […]
Without Julian Assange, we would know far less about the US war in Afghanistan. Our picture of the conflict would have remained sanitized, and largely as political leaders would have wanted it to be. But since the 2010 Afghan War documents leak on WikiLeaks — an investigative platform founded by Assange — the world knows about the real inhumanity […]
An interview was recently given by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, to Republik on Julian Assange. The headline reads “A murderous system is being created before our very eyes”. During the interview, Melzer details just why he has got so involved in Assange’s case and what the implications of it are for the future of […]