Julian Assange

Father Takes Assange’s Fight To New York

January 4, 2021 AAP Newswire, Shepparton News. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, United States

The father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has turned his focus from the UK to the US where he hopes a change of president could advantage his son. Assange is being held at London's Belmarsh Prison, pending a court decision on a warrant for his extradition to the US to face charges. A judgment is due to be handed down at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, but Assange's father John Shipton won't be there. Mr Shipton says there's too much uncertainty about his ability to travel amid a series of border closures in the UK due to a mutant strand of coronavirus. "It's all up in the air like it is for everybody ... except the situation is more tenuous for Julian because it's 10 years long," he told AAP.

Assange Extradition: Legal Teams Likely Informed Already Of Judge’s Decision

January 3, 2021 Alexander Mercouris, Consortium News. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

In accordance with a British magistrate court’s usual procedure, Julian Assange’s Judgment has almost certainly already been written and sent in draft form to the respective teams of lawyers, probably early on Friday evening. The lawyers therefore already know what the decision is, as well as the British government and at least the Department of Justice in Washington. Under established procedure, Assange’s lawyers are not supposed to tell Assange himself what the decision is so he and his family are probably the only people who are directly involved in his case who don’t yet know its outcome. The purpose in sending the Judgment in draft form to the lawyers in advance of the Court hearing is to give them an opportunity to check it for factual mistakes.

Upcoming Ruling In Assange Trial Threatens More Than Freedom Of The Press

January 3, 2021 Steve Brown, Covert Action Magazine. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

Although important legal principles are at stake in the extradition trial of Julian Assange, for which a ruling will be handed down on January 4, it should not be forgotten that there are important human issues at stake as well. One such issue is Assange’s health, which has progressively worsened under what seems to be cruel and even sadistic maltreatment by the British government, including the refusal of appropriate medical care and confining him in his cell for 23 hours a day, seven days a week. The other is that, if the Judge’s ruling is adverse, Julian’s two children may never see their father again. Many stories have been written about the legal issues in Julian’s case, and the chilling effect that his extradition to the U.S.—where he will almost certainly be imprisoned for life...

The Julian Assange Pardon Drive

January 2, 2021 Binoy Kampmark, Counterpunch. Organize! Extradition, Julian Assange, Pardon, Press Freedom

The odds are stacked against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher who faces the grimmest of prospects come January 4. On that day, the unsympathetic judicial head of District Judge Vanessa Baraitser will reveal her decision on the Old Bailey proceedings that took place between September and October this year. Despite Assange’s team being able to marshal an impressive, even astonishing array of sources and witnesses demolishing the prosecution’s case for extradition to the United States, power can be blindly vengeful. Such blindness is much in evidence in a co-authored contribution to The Daily Signal from this month.

What We Learned In Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing

January 1, 2021 Assange Defense. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Legal System, Wikileaks

The prosecution of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange would be a landmark test of the First Amendment right to publish if he were brought to trial in the United States, as press freedom groups, constitutional lawyers, and newsrooms across the board have sounded the alarm about the ways in which the U.S. indictment intends to silence investigative journalism around the world. But Assange would first have to be extradited from the United Kingdom, where he has been imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh for over a year and a half. At Assange’s extradition hearing in London, comprising one week of oral arguments in February and four weeks of witness testimony in September...

The Kafkaesque Imprisonment Of Assange Exposes US Myths

December 31, 2020 Glenn Greenwald, Substack. Educate! Asylum, Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom

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 lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by the ruling class. Those who render themselves acquiescent and harmless that way will — in every society, including the most repressive — usually be free of reprisals. They will not be censored or jailed. They will be permitted to live their lives largely unmolested by authorities, while many will be well-rewarded for this servitude. Such individuals will see themselves as free because, in a sense, they are: they are free to submit, conform and acquiesce.

Julian Assange’s Father Puts Hope Into Pardon From Biden

December 30, 2020 Christoph Meyer and Isobel Frodsham, DPA International. Educate! Extradition, Joe Biden, Julian Assange, Pardon

London - The father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hopes the next US president will pardon his son, he told dpa on Tuesday, ahead of an expected British court decision on a US extradition request. John Shipton said that he fears the court on January 4 will rule in favour of the extradition based on the "arbitrary and malicious" way his son has been treated during the proceedings, and thus hopes that President-elect Joe Biden will pardon Assange when he is in office. The 76-year-old added that he decided not to "waste time" hoping the administration of Donald Trump would pardon his son and instead is making steps towards trying to get a pardon from the incoming president instead.

The Fate Of Press Freedom To Be Decided On January 4

December 28, 2020 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

Judge Vanessa Baraitser will announce her decision on the United States' request to extradite Julian Assange on January 4. Assange faces 18 charges, 17 of them under the Espionage Act, which has been weaponized to go after journalists who expose war crimes and other truths the United States wants to keep secret. If he is extradited, it will end press freedom as we know it. Any journalist anywhere in the world will know they could face similar consequences if they expose the US government. I speak with Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof, who has been following the extradition process closely, about what is likely to happen and what activists can do to protect Julian Assange and our right to know.

Nils Melzer Asks Trump To Pardon Assange

December 23, 2020 Wikileaks, Consortium News. Resist! Julian Assange, Pardon, Torture, Trump

Geneva – A UN human rights expert today issued an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, asking him to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been held in Belmarsh high security prison since his arrest by British authorities inside the Embassy of Ecuador in London in April 2019. A British court is set to rule on 4 January whether Assange should be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal prosecution and, if convicted, up to 175 years in prison for the publication of secret documents through the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks in 2010. This is the text of the letter from Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Assange Hearing Outcome Could Set An “Alarming Precedent” For Free Speech

December 18, 2020 Benjamin Lynch, Index on Censorship. Educate! Extradition, Free Speech, Julian Assange, Press Freedom

Assange’s partner, Stella Moris, is remaining resolute despite his extradition hearing decision being less than a month away and him being held in a prison that has recently had a Covid-19 outbreak. Speaking over the phone to Index, Moris discusses the hearing’s details and what it could mean for the future of freedom of expression. And she talks about the deep implications it has had for her and her young family. “Obviously it is very difficult. I speak to Julian on a daily basis unless there is a problem. [But] he is in prison. Soon to be for two years. He has been there for longer than many violent prisoners who are serving sentences. All in all, he has been deprived of his liberty for ten years now,” she told Index.

Assange Prosecution: A Haunting Reminder Of The Travesty Of Justice

December 16, 2020 Jeffrey Sterling, Shadowproof. Educate! Espionage Act, Extradition, Julian Assange

The prosecution against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has invoked my case, making it a haunting reminder of the travesty of justice that befell me. I worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2015, the United States government wrongfully tried, convicted, and sent me to prison for allegedly violating the U.S. Espionage Act. I am one of the few who has ever gone to trial to defend their selves against this ancient and misused law. If I had succeeded in defending myself, it is possible Assange may not be facing the same impossible hell that ruined my life. As such, I feel a burden to challenge certain statements by the Crown Prosecution Service in Assange’s case.

Letter To Rob Davis Governor of HMP Belmarsh

November 30, 2020 Wise Up Action. Organize! COVID-19, HMP Belmarsh, Julian Assange, Prisoner rights

I am shocked to read that all 56 virus-infected prisoners at Belmarsh have been moved to the same wing as Mr. Assange, who so far by miracle is not infected. This seems utter madness to me and suggests you may want him also to become infected. Everyone knows Mr. Assange has damaged lungs (see UN report by Nils Melzer) and will almost certainly die if he catches this virus, yet instead of taking measures to protect him it appears you are deliberately placing him at greater risk of catching the virus. If he dies I believe your lack of appropriate actions will make you legally responsible for his death.

Misconduct In Public Office In The Assange Case

November 16, 2020 Rod Driver, WISE Up Action. Resist! Court abuse, Julian Assange, Torture, Wikileaks

Both Snow and Taylor showed extreme bias against Julian. Their hearings were about Julian seeking asylum at the Ecuadorean Embassy in 2012, which meant that he had not complied with his bail conditions relating to earlier hearings. Under UK law, you do not have to comply with your bail conditions if you have a good reason. When Julian asked for asylum, it was based on the risk that he could be extradited to the US. The Ecuadorean authorities accepted this as a reason for granting him asylum. This is self-evidently a reasonable excuse for not complying with bail conditions.

Assange Legal Team Submits Closing Argument Against Extradition

November 10, 2020 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Extradition, Free Press, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team submitted their closing argument to a British magistrates’ court. They argue, “It is politically motivated, it is an abuse of the process of this court, and it is a clear violation of the Anglo-U.S. treaty that governs this extradition.” The closing argument relies on evidence presented by witnesses, who testified during a trial in September, and details how President Barack Obama’s administration declined to prosecute Assange. President Donald Trump’s administration reversed this “principled” position because of the nature of Assange’s “disclosures...

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