Day: September 8, 2020

Sinking Transparency at the Old Bailey: The Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes

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8 September 2020 — Dissident Voice

by Binoy Kampmark

The fine circus that is British justice resumed at London’s Central Criminal Court on September 7, with the continued extradition proceedings against Julian Assange.  Judge Vanessa Baraitser was concerned that approximately 40 individuals had received remote video access they apparently should not have.  “In error, the court sent out orders to others who had sought access.  I remain concerned about my ability to maintain the integrity of the court if they are able to attend remotely.”

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Julian Assange News Links 8 September 2020

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8 September 2020 — The New Dark Age

Watch John Pilger’s speech outside the London show-trial of Julian Assange

The working class must demand an end to the show trial of Julian Assange

Sinking Transparency at the Old Bailey: The Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes
by Dr Binoy Kampmark

https://countercurrents.org/2020/09/sinking-transparency-at-the-old-bailey-the-assange-extradition-hearing-resumes/

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U.S. War On Journalism – Assange Fights Extradition In British Court

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8 September 2020 — Moon of Alabama

Today the London show trial over the extradition of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange to the U.S. has begun. U.S. prosecutors claim that Assange’s publishing of evidence of U.S. war crimes has violated the U.S. Espionage Act.

Why an Australian publisher who worked from Europe and evidently published truthful evidence of war crimes should by guilty under a political U.S. law is beyond me.

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John Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange

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7 September 2020 — RT

John Pilger

John Pilger

Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA. Among numerous other awards, he has won a Royal Television Society Best Documentary Award. His epic 1979 Cambodia Year Zero is ranked by the British Film Institute as one of the ten most important documentaries of the 20th century.

Your Man in the Public Gallery: the Assange Hearing Day 6

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8 September 2020 — Craig Murray

I went to the Old Bailey today expecting to be awed by the majesty of the law, and left revolted by the sordid administration of injustice.

There is a romance which attaches to the Old Bailey. The name of course means fortified enclosure and it occupies a millennia old footprint on the edge of London’s ancient city wall. It is the site of the medieval Newgate Prison, and formal trials have taken place at the Old Bailey for at least 500 years, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. For the majority of that time, those convicted even of minor offences of theft were taken out and executed in the alleyway outside. It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, lie buried under the pavements.

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