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Australian Political Leaders Urge End To Assange Prosecution

January 7, 2020 Rob Harris, Smh.com.au , , ,
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined calls for the Morrison government to try to halt Julian Assange's potential extradition from Britain to the United States on espionage charges, as the WikiLeaks founder's supporters intensify their campaign to bring him to Australia. Mr Joyce joined former foreign minister Bob Carr in voicing concerns over US attempts to have the 48-year-old Australian stand trial in America, where he faces a sentence of 175 years if found guilty of computer fraud and obtaining and disclosing national defence information.

Chelsea Manning Responds To United Nations Rapporteur’s Call For Her Release

January 4, 2020 Staff, Sparrowmedia.net , ,
Alexandria, VA — This week Nils Melzer, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment published a letter to the U.S. government dated November 1, 2019, condemning the incarceration of Chelsea Manning, calling such coercive confinement “torture” in violation of international law, and recommending her immediate release. He also recommends that any disproportionate fines levied against her be cancelled. The letter was made public following a customary 60-day window pending any government response.

Coercive Measures Against Chelsea Manning Violate Prohibition On Torture

January 1, 2020 Staff, Spcommreports.ohchr.org , , ,
I have the honour to address you in my capacity as Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 34/19. In this connection, I would like to bring to the attention of your Excellency’s Government information I have received regarding the use ofcivil contempt sanctions to detain and fine, Ms. Chelsea Manning,allegedly to coerce compliance with grand jury procedures.She is currently detained in William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia...

Here Are Five Ways To Support Chelsea Manning In 2020

December 31, 2019 Ella Fassler, Truthout.org , ,
The year 2019 has been a nightmare for whistleblower Chelsea Manning and her supporters. While Donald Trump cleared three members of the United States Army who reportedly murdered Afghani civilians, Manning is, once again, confined for acting in accord with her own principles. In 2010, she was imprisoned for leaking classified military and diplomatic documents that exposed U.S. war crimes, including the murder of Iraqi and Afghani civilians.

Wikileaks Still Holding Powerful To Account As Founder Julian Assange “Slowly Dies” In Prison

December 30, 2019 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his own words, relayed through English journalist Vaughan Smith, who revealed that the Wikileaks founder called him on Christmas Eve to share his greetings. Smith also divulged that Assange told him he is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day and is often sedated. His treatment has elicited protests around the world, from journalists, news organizations, human rights groups and celebrities. Last week a group of Australian doctors asked Foreign Minister Marise Payne to evacuate Assange to an Australian hospital, citing his inhumane treatment.

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

December 21, 2019 By Kevin Gosztola, Medium.com , , ,
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 , ,
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 , ,
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 , , ,
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.

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Spends Her Birthday Imprisoned

December 18, 2019 By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News ,
Military whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent her 32nd birthday behind bars yesterday for continuing to refuse to testify against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange. She has been in prison since May after a U.S. District Judge ordered her incarceration for not recognizing the legitimacy of the grand jury. She tweeted that she was grateful for the support and the letters that she had been sent while imprisoned at the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, VA. Her lawyers have argued that the sentence is unlawful and merely punitive revenge from a state that wishes to make an example of her as a prominent whistleblower. Under federal law, a recalcitrant witness can be jailed only if there is a reasonable possibility that the incarceration will coerce them into testifying.

Who Spied On Julian Assange?

December 17, 2019 By Philip Giraldi, Councilforthenationalinterest.org , , ,
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 , , ,
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.

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

December 7, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org , , ,
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...

A Second Whistle Blown On The OPCW’s Doctored Report

December 5, 2019 Jeremy Salt, Ahtribune.com ,
Another whistleblower leak has exposed the fraudulent nature of the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) report on the alleged chemical weapons attack in the Syrian city of Douma, close to Damascus, on April 7 last year. The first leak came from the Fact-Finding Mission’s engineering sub-group.  After investigating the two sites where industrial gas cylinders were found in Douma and taking into account the possibility that the cylinders had been dropped from the air it concluded that there was a “higher probability” that both cylinders were placed at both sites by hand.

Groundswell Of Support For WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange

December 2, 2019 By Oscar Grenfell, Wsws.org , , ,
Over the past week, a growing groundswell of opposition to the US-led persecution of Julian Assange has come to the surface of political life internationally. Prominent public figures in Britain, Europe and Australia, including doctors, journalists, politicians and United Nations representatives, have condemned the WikiLeaks founder’s imprisonment in the UK’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison. They have demanded an end to the attempt to extradite him to the United States, where he faces charges of espionage and life imprisonment for publishing the truth.
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