Amnesty International Resists Calls To Designate Assange A ‘Prisoner Of Conscience’ As Extradition Looms

Monday, 16 May 2022 — The Dissenter

BY MOHAMED ELMAAZI

Photo by Mohamed Elmaazi, NUJ member

The international human rights organization Amnesty International has resisted calls to designate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a “prisoner of conscience,” even though the organization acknowledges he is the target of a “politically motivated prosecution” by the United States.

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Ukraine News Links 15-16 May 2022

Monday, 16 May 2022 • 13:30 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the readers has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

China tells G7 to mind its own business
https://www.rt.com/news/555550-china-g7-russia-sanctions/

The Empire’s Ukraine War
https://countercurrents.org/2022/05/the-empires-ukraine-war/

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