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Sean Hannity: If Julian Assange was aggressively targeted for publishing material, where are the charges for Hillary Clinton?” | Media Matters for America

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): The fact that Hillary Clinton paid for Russian lies to influence the election. How come she’s not being arrested? How come she’s not having charges brought up on her? This is lack of equal justice under the law. The question remains, OK, if Julian Assange is aggressively targeting for publishing material, where are the charges for Hillary Clinton who paid for Russian lies […]

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Assange ‘handcuffed and stripped naked on first day of extradition hearing’ | Bridgwater Mercury

“Yesterday, Mr Assange was handcuffed 11 times and stripped naked twice at Belmarsh and put into five separate holding cells,” he said. “What I think the court can do is give an indication to the prison authorities if there is a risk that treatment of this nature will impinge on his ability to participate in […]

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Julian Assange Was Strip-Searched Twice After the First Day of His Extradition Hearing – VICE

Julian Assange was stripped naked, searched, and repeatedly handcuffed once he was returned to prison at the end of the first day of his high-profile extradition trial, according to his legal team. The allegation was made by Edward Fitzgerald, a lawyer on Assange’s defense team, during the second day of the extradition hearing in London. […]

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Dyer: Whistle-blowers like Julian Assange should be praised, not punished | The London Free Press

The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellsberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the U.S. government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war, he was arrested and tried, but the court set him free.When Edward Snowden released a vast trove of […]

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Julian Assange asks to sit with lawyers for extradition case | The Guardian

Julian Assange’s extradition case is to hear an application on Thursday for him to leave a dock surrounded by bulletproof glass and sit with his lawyers after he complained of being as much a participant in the proceedings as “watching Wimbledon”. The WikiLeaks founder, who is fighting extradition to the US, told a judge at […]

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Julian Assange’s legal team blames Guardian journalists for release of unredacted files

Assange’s defence team turned the attention to the British newspaper, one of WikiLeaks publishing partners, to refute the US claims that Assange had put sources in harm’s way, including some that had since disappeared when unredacted US state cables were published in September 2011. … Assange’s defence counsel Mark Summers… said “the gate was opened, […]

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Julian Assange was ‘handcuffed 11 times and stripped naked’ | The Guardian

Julian Assange was handcuffed 11 times, stripped naked twice and had his case files confiscated after the first day of his extradition hearing, according to his lawyers, who complained of interference in his ability to take part.Their appeal to the judge overseeing the trial at Woolwich crown court in south-east London was also supported by […]

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Assange Complains He Cannot Follow U.S. Extradition Hearing – The New York Times

Julian Assange complained he was struggling to follow his extradition hearing on Wednesday as his legal team argued Britain should not send him to the United States because the charges against him were politically motivated. … He faces decades in prison if convicted.But the Wikileaks founder complained he was struggling to hear proceedings from his […]

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Dame Vivienne Westwood joins protesters at Assange extradition hearing | Gazette Series

Wearing a headband reading “angel”, the designer told the PA news agency: “I’m the angel of democracy. Nobody knows more about democracies than Julian Assange. “It is not a crime to publish American war crimes. It’s in the public interest, it is democracy that he is allowed to do this. “I feel really worried and […]

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Julian Assange supporters protest outside court ahead of extradition hearing | South Wales Argus

Supporters of Julian Assange have gathered outside court as the WikiLeaks founder begins his fight against extradition to the US, where he is accused of helping to leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents.Demonstrators, including Assange’s father John Shipton, arrived at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, with some holding placards calling for his immediate release.Some […]