Σύλληψη από τις Βρετανικές αρχές του Julian Assange της Wikileaks

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JULIAN ASSANGE MUST BE FREED, NOT BETRAYED

On Saturday, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death.

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WikiLeaks was not the first to call out the pattern of criminal lying in democracies that remain every bit as rapacious as in Lord Curzon's day. The achievement of the remarkable publishing organisation founded by Julian Assange has been to provide the proof.

WikiLeaks has informed us how illegal wars are fabricated, how governments are overthrown and violence is used in our name, how we are spied upon through our phones and screens. The true lies of presidents, ambassadors, political candidates, generals, proxies, political fraudsters have been exposed. One by one, these would-be emperors have realised they have no clothes.

It has been an unprecedented public service; above all, it is authentic journalism, whose value can be judged by the degree of apoplexy of the corrupt and their apologists.
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When we speak about dictatorships, we call this brainwashing: the conquest of minds. It is a truth we rarely apply to our own societies, regardless of the trail of blood that leads back to us and which never dries.

WikiLeaks has exposed this. That is why Assange is in a maximum security prison in London facing concocted political charges in America, and why he has shamed so many of those paid to keep the record straight. Watch these journalists now look for cover as it dawns on them that the American fascists who have come for Assange may come for them, not least those on the Guardian who collaborated with WikiLeaks and won prizes and secured lucrative book and Hollywood deals based on his work, before turning on him.

In 2011, David Leigh, the Guardian's "investigations editor", told journalism students at City University in London that Assange was "quite deranged". When a puzzled student asked why, Leigh replied, "Because he doesn't understand the parameters of conventional journalism".

But it's precisely because he did understand that the "parameters" of the media often shielded vested and political interests and had nothing to do with transparency that the idea of WikiLeaks was so appealing to many people, especially the young, rightly cynical about the so-called "mainstream".

Leigh mocked the very idea that, once extradited, Assange would end up "wearing an orange jumpsuit". These were things, he said, "that he and his lawyer are saying in order to feed his paranoia".

The current US charges against Assange centre on the Afghan Logs and Iraq Logs, which the Guardian published and Leigh worked on, and on the Collateral Murder video showing an American helicopter crew gunning down civilians and celebrating the crime. For this journalism, Assange faces 17 charges of "espionage" which carry prison sentences totalling 175 years.

Whether or not his prison uniform will be an "orange jumpsuit", US court files seen by Assange's lawyers reveal that, once extradited, Assange will be subject to Special Administrative Measures, known as SAMS. A 2017 report by Yale University Law School and the Center for Constitutional Rights described SAMS as "the darkest corner of the US federal prison system" combining "the brutality and isolation of maximum security units with additional restrictions that deny individuals almost any connection to the human world ... The net effect is to shield this form of torture from any real public scrutiny."
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Δεν νομίζω να έχει κανείς την παραμικρή αμφιβολία για ποιο λόγο διώκεται.

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Θα έχει ενδιαφέρον αν επαληθευτεί ο ισχυρισμός των δικηγόρων Ασσάντζ ότι κύκλοι του Τραμπ του έταξαν ασυλία αν δηλώσει ότι δεν ήταν Ρώσοι οι χάκερς των emails του DNC

[Φιλόσοφος_Στ@ρχίδας]

Δεν μπορώ να φανταστώ πως μπορεί να επαληθευτεί κάτι τέτοιο. Υπάρχουν και 2 ερωτήματα:
1) Πόση βαρύτητα θα είχε στις ΗΠΑ ένας τέτοιος ισχυρισμός εκ μέρους του Assange πάνω στο συγκεκριμένο θέμα ώστε να λειτουργήσει ευεργετικά για τον Τραμπ;
2) Με ποια αιτολογία μπορεί να δοθεί χάρη στον Assange όταν του έχουν στήσει κατηγορητήριο για 5 ηλεκτρικές καρέκλες;

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Interviews with Assange Legal Advisor Renata Avila, Journalists Glen Ford, Max Blumenthal and More in new Assange: Countdown To Freedom

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Day 1 of Assange’s US extradition hearing
Lawyer slams day 2 of Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing, here is how it went down

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Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four
Και η παρωδία συνεχίζεται.

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Απορώ πως γίνεται και δεν τον έχουν εκδώσει ακόμα τα τσιράκια των αμερικανών...

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Απορώ πως γίνεται και δεν τον έχουν εκδώσει ακόμα τα τσιράκια των αμερικανών...

Η έκδοση του βασίζεται στην συμφωνία έκδοσης που υπογράφηκε το 2003 και επικυρώθηκε το 2007. Το θέμα είναι πως η συμφωνία ορίζει πως δεν γίνεται έκδοση για πολιτικούς λόγους και η γραμμή των κατηγόρων του είναι πως οι πράξεις του δεν έχουν τέτοιο χαρακτήρα. https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis...iously-flawed/

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The Travesty Of Julian Assange’s Prosecution Raises Wider Issues

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If there is one lesson to be drawn from the Assange saga it is that all of those fundamental principles we were nurtured to believe in can be quickly sacrificed in the crude exercise of state power. The shattering of naïve illusions is perhaps one small benefit to be gained from this process that is otherwise a travesty of what we would nurtured to believe was British justice.

What has happened to Assange during the recent preliminary hearing in a London Court (in fact part of a maximum-security prison complex) has been superbly chronicled by former United Kingdom diplomat Craig Murray on his website www.craigmurray.org.uk. People are urged to go to his website to read the grisly details of the recent travesty of justice described as a preliminary hearing. If one has any lingering belief in the efficacy and value of British justice, then Murray’s detailed account should be a radical antidote.

Assange’s alleged crime was to publish details of war crimes and other atrocities carried out by the United States military forces in Iraq. That information was passed on to mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times and the United Kingdom Guardian, neither of whom have been prosecuted for their publication of US war crimes.
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Trump ordered Assange’s seizure by British police and wanted him dead