5 November 2021 — CovertAction Magazine
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James Bradley and Jeremy Kuzmarov
Tag: assange extradition hearing
Ray McGovern [Source: 
[Source: Julian Assange News Links 31 October – 1 November 2021
1 November 2021 — The New Dark Age
If Assange dies in UK prison it would mean he’d been ‘tortured to death,’ UN special rapporteur on torture tells RT
https://www.rt.com/news/538997-assange-torture-uk-melzer/
Human Rights are for Everyone! Including Julian Assange
https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/human-rights-are-for-everyone-including-julian-assange/
Watch: CIA Plans To Kill Julian Assange ‘UNFATHOMABLE’
30 October 2021 — Going Underground on RT
With Jeremy Corbyn, Richard Burgon, Kristinn Hrafnsson
Going Underground’s Social Media Producer Farhaan Ahmed speaks to Jeremy Corbyn MP, Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson and Richard Burgon MP at the Belmarsh Tribunal, which featured some of the biggest names in international politics and journalism speaking in solidarity with Julian Assange, who faces 175 years in a super-max prison in the United States should British courts decide that he should indeed be extradited.
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‘If they destroy the free press, they destroy the world,’ Roger Waters says after UK court adjourns to rule on Assange extradition
29 October 2021 — RT
Julian Assange’s extradition case could deal a fatal blow to free press worldwide, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters told RT as a British court weighed final arguments on whether to transfer the WikiLeaks co-founder to US custody.
DAY TWO — ‘CIA Tried to Kill Assange;’ US: ‘He’s Only Moderately Depressed & Won’t Go to Isolation’
28 October 2021 — Consortium News
The two-day U.S. appeal against the denial of extradition of Julian Assange has ended in London with the U.S. promising humane prison conditions and Assange’s lawyers saying the CIA tried to kill him.
Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner, addressing his supporters outside the High Court on Thursday during the U.S. appeal hearing in London. (Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign)
Consortium News had remote video access to the courtroom for the two-day hearing.
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News
Julian Assange News Links 28 October 2021
28 October 2021 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age
Defense chronology surrounding Assange’s family and Dr Kopelman
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/defense-chronology-surrounding-assanges-family-and-dr-kopelman/
Declaration of Assange attorney Gareth Peirce on Prof Kopelman
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/declaration-of-assange-attorney-gareth-peirce-on-prof-kopelman/
DAY ONE: Assange Lawyer in Fiery Rebuttal at Day’s Conclusion
27 October 2021 — Consortium News
Edward Fitzgerald QC, a lawyer for Julian Assange, ended the first day of the U.S. appeal with a thunderous response to the case put forward by a prosecutor for the United States.
Assange supporters on Oct. 23 outside the Royal Courts of Justice ahead of the U.S. extradition appeal hearing. (Don’t Extradite Assange campaign)
Consortium News has remote video access to the courtroom for the two-day hearing.
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News
A lawyer for Julian Assange responded forcefully to the U.S. presentation at the High Court in London on Wednesday, sweeping aside arguments that the lower court judge had followed the lead of a biased expert witness and that Assange was faking his suicidal urges.
We’re Live Blogging the Assange Appeal
26 October 2021 — Assange Defense
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It’s been more than 10 months since a UK court rejected the U.S. government’s request to extradite Julian Assange and ruled that he should be freed. Tomorrow, Britain’s High Court will hear the U.S. appeal of that stinging defeat. Access to the proceedings is restricted, but Assange Defense will be observing and live blogging at our website and on our social media accounts (Facebook | Twitter). |
The CIA’s Chinese Walls
27 April 2021 — Craig Murray
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence submitted evidence of this in court. After Julian was arrested in the Ecuadorean Embassy and removed, all of his personal possessions were illegally seized by the Ecuadorean authorities, including his files and his IT equipment. These were then shipped back to Ecuador by diplomatic bag. There, they were handed over to the CIA.
WATCH: CN Live! — 2 Yrs After Arrest: ‘Lawmakers for Assange’; Exclusive: Labor Party Resolution of Support
12 April 2021 — Consortium News
On the 2nd anniversary of the arrest, Australian MPs joined CN Live! to tell PM Scott Morrison to pick up the phone and tell Joe Biden to release Julian Assange. Watch the replay here.
Sunshine Week & #FreeAssangeTelethon
20 March 2021 — Assange Defense
It’s Sunshine Week and we wanted to update everyone on some U.S. political developments and remind you of the big #FreeAssangeTelethon event happening Saturday.
Our latest blog post is a round-up of recent coverage of Biden administration developments that may impact Julian’s case, with important contributions from the ACLU, Jameel Jaffer, Dan Froomkin, and others.
Assange saga: Real journalism is criminally insane
7 January 2021 — Asia Times
Ultimate aim of the post-truth Inquisition of whistleblower Julian Assange is his termination inside America’s gulag penal system
by Pepe Escobar
A mural of Australia’s Julian Assange is seen in Melbourne on January 5 after a magistrate in London ruled that the WikiLeaks founder should not be extradited to the US to face espionage charges for publishing hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010. Photo: AFP / William West
Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonder-walls.
The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in theory, on his way to – conditional – freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first anniversary of the event that started the Raging Twenties: the assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani.
Both Tortuous and Torturous
6 January 2021 — Craig Murray
Magistrate Vanessa Bararitser walked into Westminster Magistrates Court No.1 at 10.12am this morning with the sunniest smile and most carefree disposition I have ever seen her adopt. Her shoulders appeared visibly lifted. She positively beamed at Clair Dobbin, counsel for the US government, as she invited her to put the case for the prosecution as to why Julian Assange should not be released on bail.
British Judge Keeps Julian Assange In Prison, Despite Denying Extradition Two Days Ago
6 January 2021 — The Dissenter
“As far as Mr. Assange is concerned, this case has not been won,” Judge Vanessa Baraitser declared. She said the United States government “must be allowed to challenge [her] decision.”
Photo: Ministry of JusticeA British district judge denied bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a hearing in which the prosecution argued he had helped NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “flee justice” and would abscond if released from the Belmarsh high-security prison.
The Assange Verdict: What Happens Now
5 January 2021 — Craig Murray
I fully expect that Julian will be released on bail this week, pending a possible US appeal against the blocking of his extradition.
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
4 January 2021 — Mint Press
By Chris Hedges
Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost) —As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution.
Shortly after WikiLeaks released the Iraq War Logs in October 2010, which documented numerous US war crimes — including video images of the gunning down of two Reuters journalists and 10 other unarmed civilians in the Collateral Murder video, the routine torture of Iraqi prisoners, the covering up of thousands of civilian deaths and the killing of nearly 700 civilians that had approached too closely to US checkpoints — the towering civil rights attorneys Michael Ratner and Len Weinglass, who had defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case, met Julian Assange in a studio apartment in Central London, according to Ratner’s newly released memoir “Moving the Bar”.
Julian Assange: Imminent Freedom
5 January 2021 — Craig Murray
It has been a long and tiring day, with the startlingly unexpected decision to block Julian’s extradition. The judgement is in fact very concerning, in that it accepted all of the prosecution’s case on the right of the US Government to prosecute publishers worldwide of US official secrets under the Espionage Act. The judge also stated specifically that the UK Extradition Act of 2003 deliberately permits extradition for political offences. These points need to be addressed. But for now we are all delighted at the ultimate decision that extradition should be blocked.
The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
4 January 2021 — Caitlin Johnson
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have.
In Assange Case, British Judge Rejects US Government’s Extradition Request
4 January 2021 — The Dissenter
“It would be oppressive to extradite [Assange] to the United States of America,” Judge Vanessa Baraitser stated
Old Bailey Courthouse (Photo: It’s No Game)Citing harsh federal prison conditions in the United States, a British district court judge rejected the United States government’s extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
President Trump: Please Pardon Assange!
12 December 2020 — Assange Defense
In just 24 days, a judge will rule on the U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange. But he needs our help NOW!
No matter how the judge rules, it is likely that Julian will remain under threat for months or years to come as the case is appealed. At HMS Prison Belmarsh, surrounded by some of the world’s worst criminals, Julian is in near-total lockdown in conditions former U.N. official Nils Melzer calls torture. His prison wing is enduring a COVID outbreak and he is being kept in cold conditions without access to winter clothing sent by his family.
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