Σύλληψη από τις Βρετανικές αρχές του Julian Assange της Wikileaks

[Rebel Scum]

Και οι κατηγορίες πληθαίνουν.
https://twitter.com/johnpilger/statu...74378788319244

“Truth ultimately is all we have:” Julian Assange appeals for public support

Ναι αλλά ο βιασμός;

[famous-walker]

Ναι αλλά ο βιασμός;

Σωστά, μάλλον το ξέχασαν.

Γραμμένο σχεδόν 7 χρόνια πριν.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...julian-assange

[Rebel Scum]

Σωστά, μάλλον το ξέχασαν.

Γραμμένο σχεδόν 7 χρόνια πριν.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...julian-assange

Ναι βρε το ξέρω. Απλά ο περισσότερος κόσμος ξέρει αυτό, ότι είναι κακός βιαστής. Πετάνε που και που και κάνα Russian asset και τον ξεχάσαμε.

[famous-walker]

Ναι βρε το ξέρω. Απλά ο περισσότερος κόσμος ξέρει αυτό, ότι είναι κακός βιαστής. Πετάνε που και που και κάνα Russian asset και τον ξεχάσαμε.

Χαχα, και δεν ήμουν σίγουρος πως να το γράψω μην τυχόν και παρεξηγηθώ. Το κατάλαβα που το πας εννοείται.

[famous-walker]

Από τα πιο πλήρη άρθρα για την υπόθεση.

Abuses show Assange case was never about law

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A lawyer explains how the persecution of Julian Assange could spectacularly backfire

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The U.N. expert, Nils Melzer, also warned that Assange would likely face a “politicized show trial” if he were to be extradited to the United States. Melzer writes, “In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution, I have never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonize and abuse a single individual for such a long time.”

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In legal victory for Assange, Swedish court rules against extradition

The Uppsala District Court yesterday ruled against a bid by Swedish state prosecutors for the country to formally detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in absentia, which would have set in motion a request for his extradition from Britain.

Assange’s lawyers have described the judgement as a legal “victory.” It is a blow to the attempts by Swedish prosecutors to secure Assange’s extradition, through the issuing of a European Arrest Warrant, despite the fact that he has never been charged with a crime in the country.

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WikiLeaks publisher Assange faces US extradition trial next February

Chief judge Emma Arbuthnot ruled Friday that WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange will face a trial in February 25 next year to determine whether he is extradited to the United States.

As far as Britain’s government and judiciary are concerned, the verdict is a forgone conclusion. Assange will be railroaded to Washington, where his persecutors will try him on 18 accounts, including 17 under the Espionage Act, carrying a combined sentence of 175 years in prison.
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Arbuthnot had no right to preside over the hearing as her impartiality has been questioned. She is the wife of ex-Conservative MP, junior Defence Minister and government whip, Baron James Arbuthnot. He was formerly chair of Parliament’s Defence Select Committee in 2005-2014 and a director of Security Intelligence Consultancy SC Strategy Ltd. Two other directors of the private consultancy are Sir John Scarlett, the former head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, and Lord Carlile.

A cross-party peer, Carlile was a former “independent” reviewer of UK government antiterrorism legislation, who has repeatedly defended the extraordinary scope of the antidemocratic powers of the UK intelligence agencies. In 2015, he called for an end to the “demonisation” of the intelligence agencies. SC Strategy was formed in 2012 and by 2015, Scarlett and Carlile had received £800,000 between them for offering commercial advice on UK policy and regulation.
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Assange’s defence lawyer, Mark Summers QC, said to Arbuthnot that the case being concocted against Assange was an “an outrageous and full-frontal assault on journalistic rights.” The defence faced substantial obstacles in mounting its case as Assange was in prison, had no access to a computer and could only see legal documents if they were posted to him. Summers said the US timetable for a trial in February was therefore “optimistic.”

After Arbuthnot had waved through the demands of the US, without bothering to address any of the difficulties raised by Summers, Assange demanded clarity on the nature of the accusations against him. Protesting the deliberations, he said that he had not yet been able to see the paperwork containing the US case against him. He was immediately interrupted by Arbuthnot who said, “they only received it yesterday…in any event.”
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Outside the court, Jennifer Robinson from Assange’s legal team said that the US indictment, if successful, would have “a chilling impact” on journalism and publishers “all over the world.” Assange was being pursued in retaliation for him making public “truthful information about the United States,” including “evidence of war crimes, human rights abuse and corruption the world over.”

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Και για να μην ξεχνιόμαστε:

Julian Assange’s father warns WikiLeaks’ publisher’s health is “declining rapidly” in Belmarsh Prison

Κλεισμένος στο Guantanamo Bay του Η.Β. λόγω μιας αστείας κατηγορίας,

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Assange was dispatched to the facility despite being convicted only of a minor British bail offense, which stemmed from his successful claim for political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012.
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Με χαζές δικαιολογίες που θα ζήλευαν και "μη δημοκρατικά" καθεστώτα για να καταπατήσουν τα ελάχιστα δικαιώματα που έχει έτσι και αλλιώς εκεί μέσα,

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Shipton explained that Assange was “in a cell 20 hours a day and has two social visits a month. Lawyers are allowed there other times. These social visits can be arbitrarily cancelled or reduced in time.”

He related that when he travelled from Australia to London two-and-a-half months ago, “we waited and were told that we couldn’t come” into the prison for a pre-arranged visit with Assange.

“No reason was given,” Shipton said, except that “there were conflicting appointments made with prison doctors to come and see him. So, they use the visiting times to have his medical examiners examine him, which means that a social visit needs to be cancelled.”

Shipton, along with a WikiLeaks staff member and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, returned the following week for another arranged visit. “We waited 46 minutes for Julian to arrive,” he said. The prison authorities claimed that they had “forgotten” to notify Assange of the visit, “so they had to go and find him and bring him down.”
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Και όλα αυτά για έναν πολύ απλό λόγο,

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Shipton noted that this persecution was a result of the publishing activities of WikiLeaks, which had “given us insight into all of the heinous crimes that have unfolded before us in the last 20 years, of country after country destroyed, assassinations, the implantation of spies and second rate politicians who have their affiliations with the ambassador of the US.”
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Julian Assange: Deprivation of Justice and Double Standards in Belmarsh Prison
Clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson: They are trying to break Assange “physically and psychologically” (Πολύ ενδιαφέρον άρθρο)

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Julian Assange’s lawyers were placed under surveillance. But that’s not the whole story

Ή αλλιώς όταν πλέον δεν τηρείται κανένα πρόσχημα.

[Φιλόσοφος_Στ@ρχίδας]

Η Σουηδία αποσύρει την έρευνα εις βάρος του Ασάνζ για την κατηγορία του βιασμού

Η απόφαση της εισαγγελίας βασίζεται κυρίως στο γεγονός ότι έπειτα από τόσα χρόνια, τα αποδεικτικά στοιχεία εις βάρους του Ασάνζ «έχουν εξασθενήσει σημαντικά».

Τι αποδεικτικά στοιχεία που καταδεικνύουν βιασμό είναι αυτά που εξασθενούν με τον καιρό;

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Η Σουηδία αποσύρει την έρευνα εις βάρος του Ασάνζ για την κατηγορία του βιασμού

Τι αποδεικτικά στοιχεία που καταδεικνύουν βιασμό είναι αυτά που εξασθενούν με τον καιρό;

Σημαίνει ότι δεν χρειάζεται πλέον να κρέμεται η κατηγορία πάνω από το κεφάλι του αφού ο σκοπός επετεύχθη. Επίσης η λέξη βιασμός για αυτό που κατηγορήθηκε ας πούμε είναι λίγο πλεονασμός.

[famous-walker]

Doublespeak για το ήταν κατασκευασμένες ή τραβηγμένες από τα μαλλιά.

[stefanos1999]

Τι αποδεικτικά στοιχεία που καταδεικνύουν βιασμό είναι αυτά που εξασθενούν με τον καιρό;

Συνήθως μνήμης μαρτύρων.