Extradition

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.

Canada Will Violate Human Rights If It Extradites Huawei Executive To The US

December 20, 2020 Hispan TV, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Canada, Extradition, Human Rights, Meng Wan Zhou

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of Huawei, argued that the Canadian government would violate international law if it extradites her to the United States. The Canadian national media outlet CBC reported this Saturday that, according to new documents presented on Friday by Meng’s defense before the court in Vancouver (southwest Canada), the alleged actions of their client “have no connection” with the United States. Meng’s defense, in its latest attempt to prevent her extradition to the United States, denied Washington’s jurisdiction to indict a Chinese national for her activities outside of US soil, and implicating a non-US executive of a British bank.

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.

The Trump Administration’s Extradition Request Against Meng Wanzhou Is A Farce

December 18, 2020 Dimitri Lascaris, Canadian Dimension. Educate! Canada, China, Extradition, Meng Wan Zhou

The National Post is apoplectic again. This time, the target of the Post’s ire is an online event held in November by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, the Canadian Peace Congress and the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. Entitled “Free Meng,” the event was organized in anticipation of the second anniversary of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive being detained in Vancouver pursuant to an extradition request of the Trump administration. The keynote speakers for the event were planned to be Green Party of Canada MP Paul Manly and NDP MP Niki Ashton (Manly ultimately participated, but Ashton withdrew and instead provided a written statement after the NDP distanced itself from her stance on the issue).

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.

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...

Judge Approves Extradition Of Kyle Rittenhouse

October 31, 2020 Michael Tarm, AP News. Educate! Extradition, Illinois, Rebellion2020, right wing militia

Waukegan, IL - An Illinois judge on Friday ordered a 17-year-old accused of killing two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to be extradited across the border to stand trial on homicide charges. The ruling came several hours after a hearing at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan, where defense lawyers sought to persuade Judge Paul Novak to block their Kyle Rittenhouse’s transfer to Wisconsin. At the hearing began, Rittenhouse’s lawyer said he’d had a change of heart since notifying the court that he planned to call witnesses, including Rittenhouse’s mother.

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.

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