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Members of the Bundestag demand the immediate release of Julian Assange. “The political show trial against Assange must be ended immediately,” says the MPs’ letter, which is available exclusively to the Frankfurter Rundschau. “He is entitled to a fair trial before the European Court of Human Rights.” 75 members of the Bundestag from the traffic light parties signed the appeal. The appeal was coordinated by the Green MP Max Lucks, Frank Schwabe from the SPD and the FDP MP Ulrich Lechte. “His case is emblematic of the state of press freedom in Europe,” said Lucks. “My British colleagues should contact their government and join us in demanding a hearing before the ECHR.”

Rep. Thomas Massie to Bring Julian Assange’s Brother to Biden’s State of the Union Address

Patrick says

You don't need to be a journalist to expose a government that murders unarmed civilians.

I believe that was a post of sarcasm

richwicks says

I believe that was a post of sarcasm

Yes, the sarcasm being that Assange is not a journalist because actual journalists today work with the government to keep things hidden.

Julian Assange: Not only Olaf Scholz speaks out against his extradition

Europe's Olaf Scholz surprises with words against the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. In the European Parliament, politicians are calling for an end to the perfidious persecution of the journalist.

Europe's Olaf Scholz surprises with words against the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. In the European Parliament, politicians are calling for an end to the perfidious persecution of the journalist.

https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1772627127432548544

"Assange is a Australian citizen. Their silence makes Australia a cuck nation?"

The High Court this week had one job: to decide whether Julian Assange should be granted a full appeal hearing or whether he should be immediately extradited to the US to face trial. Given two clear options they decided to do neither. Instead, with Assange approaching five years in Belmarsh high security prison, they decided to wait for even longer before making a final decision.

This latest delay is because the Court has asked the US government to supply ‘assurances’ that if Assange is put on trial in the US, he will be treated as if he were a US citizen, not a foreigner; that he will be guaranteed First Amendment freedom of speech protections; and that he will not face the death penalty. If the US fails to provide such assurances, then the judges will reconvene and grant a full appeal hearing. If its assurances satisfy the Court, then the extradition will proceed. All this will be argued through at yet another hearing on 20 May.

gabbar says

"Assange is a Australian citizen. Their silence makes Australia a cuck nation?"

No. Australia is demanding his immediate release. See "Australia's parliament has passed a motion calling on the US and
UK to release Julian Assange, ahead of a crucial legal hearing." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68302206

This latest delay is because the Court has asked the US government to supply ‘assurances’ that if Assange is put on trial in the US, he will be treated as if he were a US citizen, not a foreigner; that he will be guaranteed First Amendment freedom of speech protections;

In what many will agree was good news yesterday, object of elite hatred and Wikileaker Julian Assange won the right to appeal his extradition to the U.S., for alleged crimes of publishing leaked military documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that embarrassed the United States. The BBC ran the story under the headline, “Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder can challenge US extradition.”

Even more embarrassing for the U.S., the reason the British court gave Assange another chance was because it was unconvinced the U.S. would honor Assange’s constitutional rights, particularly his free-speech rights.

In a short but dramatic ruling yesterday, which was literally the jailed journalist’s last chance to avoid extradition, two senior judges gave Assange permission to appeal the earlier order granting his extradition to the U.S. The judges ruled that Assange must be provided a full appeal in the UK.

The claim is that Assange leaked documents showing how the US military had covered up killing civilians during the Afghanistan war. In other words, the U.S. did what the ICC would consider war crimes, that is if it applied yesterday’s standard to President Obama. Specifically, the U.S. argues Assange “put lives at risk” by failing to redact the names of intelligence agents in the leaked documents.

For some reason, many people think Assange will not receive a fair trial in America. They seem to believe he’ll be relegated to the DOJ’s coach class along with President Trump and the January 6th Capitol tourists. That loss of trust in America’s judicial institutions is a bad sign, given that until recently, the U.S. used to be considered the ‘gold standard’ of justice.

But don’t worry! As we have been repeatedly reassured, we will save democracy by first flattening it into a dead roadside raccoon.

The claim is that Assange leaked documents showing how the US military had covered up killing civilians during the Afghanistan war.

.Odd, since Assange is not a US Citizen, but the person who leaked that info to Assange (Manning) was, and that US citizen leaker was pardoned by Obama.

What were the terms of his plea "deal"?

Assange, the only known survivor of Sudden Clinton Death Syndrome, agreed to plead guilty to a single count of espionage yesterday, in exchange for credit for his five years of time served in solitary confinement in a high-security British prison.

Now, suddenly, inexplicably, Julian is free. Assange, now 52 and quite pale, requested sentencing at a remote U.S. outpost in the Marianas Islands, a U.S. Pacific island commonwealth where it turns out we have a United States Federal Courthouse attached to a Tiki bar.

After that, Julian hopes to return to his native Australia, as far from anybody named ‘Clinton’ as he can get.

The deal seems to have developed last month after a British High Court appallingly denied Assange’s extradition to the U.S., ironically and embarrassingly holding that U.S. officials had not satisfied them that America could protect Mr. Assange’s Constitutional rights. At that time, just a couple months ago, the U.S. sought to lock Assange up for 170 years.

Cynics speculated the Assange deal was a news nugget tossed out to distract everyone from what is going on in the Proxy War.

Oct 01, 2024

“CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me”- Julian Assange breaks his silence.
Full transcript of Council of Europe statement

Julian Assange says he was freed after years of incarceration because he “pled guilty to journalism.” “I am not free today because the system worked,” the Australian WikiLeaks founder said during an address to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday — his first public remarks since he was released from prison. ...

None of the statements, resolutions, reports, films, articles, events, fundraisers, protests, and letters, over the last fourteen years should have been necessary. But all of them were necessary because without them I never would have seen the light of day.

This unprecedented global effort was needed because of the legal protections that did exist, many existed only on paper, were not effective in any remotely reasonable time. I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence, with no effective remedy. ...

Justice for me is now precluded as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human rights, or even a freedom of information act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request.

I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism. I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source, and I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.

I hope my testimony today can serve to highlight the weaknesses of the existing safeguards and to help those whose cases are less visible but who are equally vulnerable.

As I emerged from the dungeon of Belmarsh, the truth now seems less discernible, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period. How expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened, and diminished. I see more impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth and more self-censorship. ...

When I founded WikiLeaks it was driven by a simple dream. To educate people about how the world works, so that through understanding we might bring about something better. Carrying a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go. Knowledge empowers us to hold power to account and to demand justice where there is none.

We obtained and published truth about tens of thousands of hidden casualties of war and other unseen horrors, about programs of assassination, rendition, torture, and mass surveillance. We revealed not just when and where these things happened, but frequently the policies, the agreements, and the structures behind them.

When we published Collateral Murder, the infamous gun camera footage of a US Apache helicopter crew eagerly blowing to pieces Iraqi journalists and their rescuers, the visual reality of modern warfare shocked the world. ...

CIA director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution. It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me, within the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and authorised going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks and the planting of false information.

My wife and my infant son were also targeted. A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six-month-old son’s nappy. ...

In February this year, the alleged source of some of our CIA revelations, former CIA officer Joshua Schulte was sentenced to 40 years in prison under conditions of extreme isolation. His windows are blacked out, and a white noise machine plays 24 hours a day over his door so that he cannot even shout through it. These conditions are more severe than those found in Guantanamo Bay. ...

When powerful nations feel entitled to target individuals beyond their borders, those individuals do not stand a chance unless there are strong safeguards in place and a state willing to enforce them.