Repression

Committee to Protect Journalists Excludes Assange From Annual List Of Jailed Journalists

December 21, 2019 By Kevin Gosztola, Medium.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

A prominent press freedom organization in the United States declined to include WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its annual list of journalists jailed throughout the world. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), based in New York City, anticipated a backlash to the exclusion, and CPJ deputy executive director Robert Mahoney wrote a post intended to head off criticism.

‘Assange Cannot Be Extradited To The US’, Lawyer Holds At Court

December 20, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers

The treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States bans extradition for political offenses. During a hearing before the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London, Julian Assange’s lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, requested Thursday that the founder of Wikileaks not be extradited to the United States arguing that the alleged crimes of his defendant have a political character. Fitzgerald mentioned that the United Kingdom-United States extradition treaty bans extradition of persons linked to political offenses, which is precisely the situation of his defendant.

Freedom For Julian Assange

December 20, 2019 Staff, Resumen-english.org Resist! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers

In a public statement on November 1st, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, expressed “his alarm at the continued deterioration in the health of Julian Assange since his arrest and detention earlier this year”, stating that his life is now in danger. In his May report, Melzer stated, in 20 years of working with victims of war, violence and political persecution, he had never seen a group of democratic states unite to isolate, demonize and deliberately abuse an individual for so long and without respecting human dignity or the rule of law. He said this after he met Assange with a specialized medical team at Belmarsh High Security Prison, in London.

Warrant Targeting Assange Supporter Reveals Scope Of US Government Campaign Against WikiLeaks

December 20, 2019 Oscar Grenfell, Wsws.org Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

On December 2, graphic designer and WikiLeaks supporter Somerset Bean revealed he had received a letter from Google informing him that the company had complied with a US Department of Justice (DOJ) warrant “compelling the release of information related to your Google account.” The letter did not indicate what information had been handed over. It stated that Google had been subject to a now expired gag order, which had prevented it from previously disclosing the existence of the warrant.

Open Letter To Scott Morrison Regarding Julian Assange

December 19, 2019 Staff, Independentaustralia.net Resist! Julian Assange, Repression, Solidarity

More than 40 esteemed lawyers, academics, journalists, top-ranking security veterans, whistleblowers, authors and artists have joined in urging Scott Morrison to intervene to stop the British violation of international law that keeps Julian Assange under life-threatening conditions, and to ensure his transfer to a suitable hospital, as urgently petitioned by more than 80 doctors last month.

D.C. Chef Arrested By ICE Officers Who Seemed To Be ‘Trying Their Luck’ In Apartment Building, Lawyer Says

December 18, 2019 By Rachel Kurzius, Dcist.com Educate! Housing, ICE, Immigration, Repression

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hung around in the hallway of a D.C. residential building that many Central Americans call home, and conducted a search on the first apartment that opened its door, says a lawyer for a resident who was arrested by those officers in November. He is still detained and has yet to receive a bond hearing, his lawyer says. Ava Benach is an immigration lawyer in D.C. who was called by a prominent restaurant group to represent one of their workers, she tells DCist. She says she is not allowed to name the restaurant group or the man who was arrested...

Who Spied On Julian Assange?

December 17, 2019 By Philip Giraldi, Councilforthenationalinterest.org Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, spying, Whistleblowers

The Julian Assange drama drags on. Though he continues to sit in a top security British prison awaiting developments in his expected extradition to the United States, the Spanish High Court has been given permission to interview him. Assange is claiming that the Spanish company contracted with by the Ecuadorean government to do embassy security in London spied on him using both audio and video devices. The recordings apparently included conversations with Assange’s lawyers outlining his defense strategies, which is an illegal activity under Spanish law.

Assange Lawyer Discloses Conditions For British Justice To Rethink His Extradition

December 16, 2019 Staff, Rt.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

A Spanish judge will question Julian Assange on a Spain-based security firm thought to have spied on him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. His lawyer hopes it may help thwart the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to the US. Set for next week, the questioning is part of a criminal inquiry the Spanish High Court is carrying out into UC Global, a private security company suspected of gathering surveillance on Assange and passing it further to US intelligence services. “December 20 is an important day,” Aitor Martinez, a lawyer in charge of defending Assange in Spain, told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency.

US Activists Arrested At Venezuela Embassy To Face Trial Without Key Documents

December 14, 2019 Umer Jamshaid, Urdupoint.com Resist! Activists, Latin America, Regime Change, Repression, Venezuela

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th December, 2019) A US judge ruled that four activists who were arrested during the State Department's seizure of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington in May must face trial without documents that activists say prove they were wrongly arrested, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Friday. Earlier this month, the activists had asked the court to order the US government to hand over documents that they say prove they cooperated with law enforcement officers in the days leading up to their arrest, court documents show.

The Trump Administration Has Declared War On The Palestine Solidarity Movement

December 12, 2019 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss.net Educate! BDS, Palestine, Repression, Solidarity, Trump Administration

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that President Trump is on the verge of signing an executive order that purportedly cracks down on antisemitism at college campuses. The move would apparently allow the government to withhold funding from schools that failed to effectively crack down on discrimination. Trump’s move is undoubtedly being implemented to strengthen the fight against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Protest As Domestic Terrorism? The Threat To Dissent

December 9, 2019 By Derek Royden, Nationofchange.org Resist! Repression, State Violence

While the 1st Amendment to the United States’ constitution is still the standard by which most of the world is judged in terms of freedom of speech, religion, assembly and petition, it has often provoked controversy in the country itself. In recent years, much of the ink spilled and talking heads engaged in agonized conversation about its protections come at free speech issues from the right, where a loud minority excels at playing the victim. When far-right speakers like Ben Shapiro or Charlie Kirk are invited by conservative groups on college campuses to paid speaking engagements and this provokes protests from students and staff...

Hong Kong Reporters Injured At Protests – In France

December 9, 2019 Alex Lo, Scmp.com Educate! France, Hong Kong, Journalism, Protests, Repression

It’s always good for reporters to have a chance to work overseas, even if it’s just on a temporary assignment. It broadens your professional experience and mental horizon. Sadly, reporting duties sometimes come with a price. Of the six reporters sent by Hong Kong Golden, an online forum, to cover the nationwide protests in France, four have been injured just days after arrival. Two were reportedly injured by sting grenades used by French anti-riot police; one was allegedly pepper-sprayed and then kicked by an officer; and another suffered a sprain while running away from a protest scene.

Massachusetts State Police Becomes First Agency To Test Out Robot Dog

December 9, 2019 Bill Galluccio, Jamn945.iheart.com Educate! Fascism, Massachusetts, Police, Repression, Robots, Technology

The Massachusetts State Police have been quietly testing Boston Dynamics' robot dog named Spot and took it out into the field on two separate occasions. Boston Dynamics has been leasing Spot to a variety of companies, though it does prohibit them from using the robot dog to harm or intimidate people. Spot comes equipped with 360-degree video capabilities and is capable of walking up a flight of stairs and traversing uneven terrain. It can also open doors, using a mechanical arm that extends from its head.

Doctors Condemn Failure Of UK To Respond To Demand For Medical Care For Assange

December 7, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Health Care, Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers

The doctors from around the world who issued an open letter on November 22 calling for the immediate transfer of Julian Assange from the maximum security Belmarsh Prison to a university teaching hospital have written again to publicly condemn the failure of the British government to answer, or even acknowledge receipt of, their concerns. The letter, dated December 4, has been sent to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Robert Buckland. It concludes: “In our opinion the UK government’s conduct in this matter is irresponsible...

RIP Fred Hampton: A Black Visionary Assassinated By The FBI

December 6, 2019 By Jefferson Morley, Counterpunch.org Educate! FBI, Fred Hampton, History, Repression

Fifty years ago this week, a squad of Chicago police officers killed Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in a pre-dawn raid on the apartment where they were sleeping. In the decades since, a revealing body of evidence has emerged showing that Hampton was the victim of a political assassination, sanctioned at the highest levels of the U.S. government. The story matters today, but not because the FBI still engages in assassination. The Bureau targets so-called “Black Identity Extremists” on flimsy grounds, but there’s no evidence that it has killed any of them.

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