Julian Assange

Persecuting Assange Is A Blow To Reporting And Human Rights Advocacy

October 17, 2020 Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Human Rights, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

If it were not for a tiny handful of journalists—ShadowProof’s Kevin Gosztola preeminent among them—Americans might be utterly unaware that a London magistrate, for the last month, has been considering nothing less than whether journalists have a right to publish information the US government doesn’t want them to. Not whether outlets can leak classified information, but whether they can publish that information on, as in the case of Wikileaks, US war crimes and torture and assorted malfeasance to do with, for instance, the war on Afghanistan, which just entered its 19th year, with zero US corporate media interest.

Ten Reasons Why The Assange Trial Threatens Freedom Of Speech

October 14, 2020 Fidel Navaez and Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

At the end of the hearings that seek to extradite journalist Julian Assange to the United States, on October 1, his defense team should have felt triumphant. Because with more than 30 witnesses and testimonies, throughout the whole month of September, they gave a beating to the prosecution representing the U.S. If the case in London were decided solely on justice, as it should in a state based on law, this battle would have been won by Assange. However, this “trial of the century” is, above all, a political trial, and there remains the feeling that the ruling was made beforehand, regardless of the law.

Roger Waters At The Belmarsh Tribunal

October 6, 2020 Progressive International. Resist! Belmarsh Tribunal, Extradition, Julian Assange, Roger Waters

I have been following the extradition proceedings in the court in London with equal measures of disbelief and disgust. Some lyrics I wrote forty years ago for a theatrical piece called ‘The Wall’ come to mind, if I may. “The evidence before the court is incontrovertible there’s no need for the jury to retire, the prisoner who now stands before you was caught red-handed showing feelings, showing feelings of an almost human nature, this will not do.” Those lyrics fit the kangaroo court in London and would sound perfect coming out of the mouth of Judge Barraister.

The Belmarsh Tribunal

October 5, 2020 Srećko Horvat, Open Democracy. Resist! Julian Assange, United States, War crimes, Wikileaks

On November 13, 1966 – at the height of the resistance war in Vietnam – Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre convened a people's tribunal to hold the US government accountable for its escalating war crimes. “The tribunal has no clear historical precedent”, Russell said. It represented no state power; it had no capacity to sentence the accused. “I believe that these apparent limitations are, in fact, virtues. We are free to conduct a solemn and historic investigation”, said Russell, “presented to the conscience of mankind.”

John Pilger: Eyewitness To The Agony Of Julian Assange

October 4, 2020 John Pilger, Mintpress News. Educate! Court abuse, Extradition, Human Rights, Julian Assange

The prevailing atmosphere has been shocking. I say that without hesitation; I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a corruption of due process; this is due revenge. Putting aside the ritual associated with ‘British justice’, at times it has been evocative of a Stalinist show trial. One difference is that in the show trials, the defendant stood in the court proper. In the Assange trial, the defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass, overseen by his guard, to make contact with his lawyers.

On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing

October 4, 2020 Chris Hedges, RT. Resistance Report Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

Chris Hedges discusses with former British ambassador Craig Murray the hearing that just adjourned in London to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Murray’s exhaustive reporting, which can be found at craigmurray.org.uk, has become one of the few sources of reliable information about the hearing, which has become notoriously difficult to cover due to court restrictions imposed on the press, and is being ignored by most mainstream news organizations.

FBI Seized Legally Privileged Materials From Julian Assange

October 4, 2020 Kevin Gosztola, Dissenter. Educate! Ecuador, FBI, Julian Assange, UC Global

The FBI in the United Kingdom enlisted the Ecuador government’s help in seizing legally privileged materials from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he was arrested and expelled from their embassy in London on April 11, 2019. According to Gareth Peirce, one of Assange’s attorneys, that day she “made immediate contact with the embassy in regard to legally privileged material, an issue of huge concern.” Assange wanted the material—in addition to “confidential medical data”—"identified and released to his lawyers.”

Assange Trial: US And UK Militaries Back Key Prosecution Witness

October 2, 2020 Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Daily Maverick. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, United Kingdom (UK), US military

Dr Nigel Blackwood, a Reader in forensic psychiatry at King’s College London (KCL), told the extradition hearing in London last week that Julian Assange was suffering only “moderate” depression. Giving evidence as an expert witness for the US prosecution, Dr Blackwood rebutted other experts’ findings on the seriousness of Assange’s condition, adding his suicide risk was “manageable”. He told the court: “Mr Assange has proved himself to be a very resilient and very resourceful man and he has underplayed that”.

Embassy Espionage, Contemplated Poisoning And Proposed Kidnapping

October 2, 2020 Binoy Kampmark, Counterpunch. Educate! CIA, Julian Assange, Surveillance, UC Global

Today will be remembered as a grand expose. It was a direct, pointed accusation at the intentions of the US imperium which long for the scalp of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. For WikiLeaks, it was a smouldering triumph, showing that the entire mission against Assange, from the start, has been a political one. The Australian publisher faces the incalculably dangerous prospect of 17 charges under the US Espionage Act and one under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Stripped to its elements, the indictment is merely violence kitted out in the vestment of sham legality. The rest is politics.

UC Global Employee Thwarted Plan To Spy On Assange

October 1, 2020 Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof. Resist! CIA, Julian Assange, Surveillance, UC Global

An IT expert who worked for UC Global, the Spanish security company which engaged in an espionage operation against Julian Assange while he was in the Ecuador embassy, refused to install numerous microphones and camera systems with “streaming capabilities” because they believed it was illegal. UC Global director David Morales was told Assange would discover the cameras were streaming in order to “restrain Morales.” “I did not want to collaborate in an illegal act of this magnitude,” the IT expert referred to as “Witness #2” told a British magistrates’ court during Assange’s extradition trial.

National Security Journalism Is On Trial

October 1, 2020 Jameel Jaffer, Just Security. Educate! Extradition, Journalism, Julian Assange, Press Freedom

Few American media organizations seem to have noticed, but the U.S. Justice Department has spent the past few weeks trying to persuade the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales to extradite Julian Assange to the United States to face charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. The hearing is scheduled to wind down at the end of this week. At this point Assange has alienated pretty much everyone, including many erstwhile supporters, and few people on this side of the Atlantic seem troubled by his indictment or by the possibility that he will be extradited, tried, convicted, and imprisoned.

Reportback: Julian Assange Hearing On Tuesday September 29

September 30, 2020 Craig Murray. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

Tuesday has been another day on which the testimony focused on the extreme inhumane conditions in which Julian Assange would be kept imprisoned in the USA if extradited. The prosecution’s continued tactic of extraordinary aggression towards witnesses who are patently well informed played less well, and there were distinct signs that Judge Baraitser was becoming irritated by this approach. The totality of defence witnesses and the sheer extent of mutual corroboration they provided could not simply be dismissed by the prosecution attempting to characterise all of them as uninformed on a particular detail, still less as all acting in bad faith.

Report: Bad Day For Julian Assange

September 29, 2020 Craig Murray. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Wikileaks

Today was the worst day for the defence since the start of the trial, as their expert witnesses failed to cope with the sheer aggression of cross-examination by the US Government and found themselves backing away from maintaining propositions they knew to be true. It was uncomfortable viewing. It was not that the prosecution had in any way changed their very systematic techniques of denigrating and browbeating; in fact the precise prosecution template was once again followed. It goes like this. undermine academic credentials as not precisely relevant humiliate by repeated memory test questions of precise phrasing of obscure regulations or definitions

Assange Faces ‘Torturous’ Months In Tiny Cell If Extradited

September 29, 2020 Press Association. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Torture, United States

The 49-year-old is fighting extradition to the US on charges related to leaks of classified documents allegedly exposing war crimes. Assange’s defence have claimed he is a “high” suicide risk, having already spent 16 months in top security Belmarsh jail in south London. On Monday, the Old Bailey heard from witnesses with experience of the Alexandria Detention Centre in Virginia, Assange’s likely pre-trial destination if he was extradited. The court heard that due to his high profile and his perceived national security risk, he could be placed in an administrative segregation (ad seg) unit.

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