Wikileaks

UN Rapporteur Exposes British Government Attempts To Obstruct His Defence Of Assange

February 12, 2020 Oscar Grenfell, WSWS.org. Resist! Julian Assange, Legal System, Media, Wikileaks

At a meeting in London’s St. Pancras New Church on Monday night, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer provided new information about the efforts of the British government and the establishment media to hinder his defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Melzer delivered a powerful contribution at the event, organised by academic Deepa Driver and held under the banner of “Free the Truth.” Other speakers were former British diplomat and whistleblower Craig Murray, Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape and Eva Joly, who previously served as an investigative magistrate and representative of the French Greens in the European parliament.

Release Chelsea Manning

February 9, 2020 Release Chelsea. Organize! Chelsea Manning, Media, Wikileaks

Chelsea has been incarcerated for more than 9 months for her principled refusal to give testimony before a grand jury convened to investigate and prosecute journalists whose work threatens to expose government misdeeds. She has not been charged with, let alone convicted of a crime, but she is in jail under “coercive confinement” – that is, she will be held in jail until she agrees to cooperate with the grand jury investigation. She is also being fined $1,000 per day for every day she refuses to testify. She can be jailed and fined in this way for up to 18 months. Chelsea has repeatedly explained her conscientious objection to Grand Jury proceedings, citing their secrecy, their susceptibility to prosecutorial abuse, and the long history of grand jury abuse to target and harass activist communities.

Nils Melzer, Lauri Love And John Kiriakou On Assange Countdown To Freedom

February 2, 2020 Randy Credico, Covert Action Magazine. Educate! Extradition, Julian Assange, Media, Wikileaks

In this extraordinary fifth installment of “Live on the Fly – Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom,” Randy Credico speaks with Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and professor at Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; Lauri Love, who successfully avoided extradition to the U.S.; and John Kiriakou, former CIA analyst and case officer who blew the whistle on the official CIA torture program. Nils, among other revelations, cuts through the disinformation and lays out the truth regarding torture, unjust imprisonment and Julian’s case, including the smear campaign wrapped in trumped-up rape allegations out of Sweden. Lauri speaks on how he successfully avoided extradition to the U.S. And John—while noting that the United Nations has declared solitary confinement as it is practiced in the U.S. to be a form of torture—describes his own incarceration in the U.S. and how British courts have refused to extradite people to the U.S. because of the nature of its prison system.

Belmarsh Prisoners Remind Us Of Our Duty Of Civil Disobedience

February 2, 2020 Nozomi Hayase, Commondreams. Resist! Julian Assange, Legal System, Prison, Wikileaks

On January 24, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is detained in London’s Belmarsh prison solely for the purposes of the US extradition request, was moved out of solitary confinement. He is now placed into a different wing of the prison, where he can interact with other inmates. In a statement, WikiLeaks Ambassador Joseph Farrell indicated, “The move is a huge victory for Assange’s legal team and for campaigners who have been insisting for weeks that the prison authorities must end the punitive treatment of Assange.” Assange has been charged with 17 counts of Espionage related to WikiLeaks’ 2010-11 publication concerning U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, embarrassing US diplomatic details, and torture in the Guantanamo Bay Prison.

U.S. DOJ Refuses To Allow Assange To Be Protected Under First Amendment Rights

January 26, 2020 Angel Fox, Angel of Truth. Educate! Extradition, First Amendment, Julian Assange, Wikileaks

In British court today, a new affidavit states Julian Assange will not be protected by the First Amendment if extradited because he is a foreign national. This is absurd and directly threatens journalists worldwide. It will set a precedent that silences any objection to U.S. behavior through the press. Once that is established, it will be easier to also go after press in the States. No one will be safe from the long arm of the U.S. DOJ. If the press can’t object to the behavior of the U.S. government, who can? This is the beginning of the end of free speech and free press. After the court hearing today, Krisstinn Hraffson made the following statement (article seen here): “On the one hand they have decided that they can go after journalists wherever they are residing in the world, they have universal jurisdiction, and demand extradition like they are doing by trying to get an Australian national from the UK for publishing that took place outside US borders,” he told AAP.

Series Of Wikileaks Release On Fraudulent Report On Chemical Attack In Syria

December 31, 2019 Staff, Wikileaks.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Syria, Wikileaks

Today WikiLeaks releases more internal documents from the OPCW regarding the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018. One of the documents is an e-mail exchange dated 27 and 28 February between members of the fact finding mission (FFM) deployed to Douma and the senior officials of the OPCW. It includes an e-mail from Sebastien Braha, Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, where he instructs that an engineering report from Ian Henderson should be removed from the secure registry of the organisation...

Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal

December 30, 2019 Caitlin Johnstone, CaitlinJohnstone.com. Educate! Chemical Weapons, Media, Syria, Wikileaks

This is getting really, really, really weird. WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon that nation from the US, UK and France. This new WikiLeaks drop includes an email from the OPCW Chief of Cabinet Sebastien Braha (who is reportedly so detested by organisation inspectors that they code-named him “Voldemort”) throwing a fit over the Ian Henderson Engineering Assessment which found that the Douma incident was likely a staged event. Braha is seen ordering OPCW staff to “remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever” from the organisation’s secure registry.

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

December 30, 2019 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

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 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.

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.

New WikiLeaks Documents Expose Phony Claims Of 2018 Syria Chemical Weapons Attack

December 18, 2019 Niles Niumuth, Wsws.org Educate! Chemical Weapons, Syria, Wikileaks

Documents published by WikiLeaks on Saturday confirm that there is significant dissent within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global chemical weapons watchdog, over the doctoring of a public report on the alleged April 7, 2018 chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, which reportedly killed 49 people and wounded as many as 650. The latest round of revelations makes clear that the US-led regime-change operation in Syria, which began in 2011, has been based on a pack of lies.

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.

Julian Assange ‘Blocked From Seeing Evidence’ Over Extradition To US

December 16, 2019 Lizzie Dearden, Independent. Educate! Criminal Justice, Julian Assange, Media, Wikileaks

Julian Assange has been blocked from seeing evidence in his extradition case as he battles against being sent to the US, a court has heard. Lawyers representing the WikiLeaks founder told a hearing they were not being given sufficient access to their client in prison. Mr Assange appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court via a video link on Friday for the hearing, which was about extending his custody at HMP Belmarsh. Defence lawyer Gareth Peirce said Mr Assange's legal team was struggling to prepare documents for the case because their client had no access to the evidence.

CIA Spying On Assange’s Lawyers Exposes Criminal Operation Against WikiLeaks Founder

December 6, 2019 Eric London, Wsws.org Resist! CIA, Julian Assange, Repression, Wikileaks

In recent weeks, the Spanish media has published multiple reports showing that the US spied on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and monitored the confidential communications between Assange and his lawyers at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The revelations are further proof that the drive to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange constitutes an illegal frame-up, beginning with the false accusations of sexual assault that were concocted to serve as a pretext to detain Assange in the first place. The entire political and media establishment in the US and the UK, with support from Australia...

Groundswell Of Support For WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange

December 2, 2019 By Oscar Grenfell, Wsws.org Resist! Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

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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