WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied bail after arguing that his release from a UK prison would mitigate his “high risk” of catching coronavirus. The Australian made the application in the Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, with less than 15 people in attendance due to the coronavirus lockdown. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that Assange had absconded before and said that Belmarsh prison is following […]
Assange
58 posts
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied bail by a London court after his lawyers argued that the Covid-19 pandemic posed a serious threat to his health in light of his pre-existing conditions. Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that the global pandemic “does not provide grounds” for Assange’s release, as cited by the AAP’s reporter at the hearing. Assange bail application:- US govt lawyers: Assange is a […]
Famous Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzon has been admitted to a hospital in Madrid after testing positive for Covid-19. He has provided legal counsel to WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, among other things. Garzon, 64, was admitted to the Ruber clinic in Madrid on Tuesday, after five days of high fever at home. He tested positive for the coronavirus and was given the prognosis of respiratory failure, Spanish […]
” alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />Doctors 4 Assange, who are the many doctors who sent a letter to the Home Secretary in Great Britain, tweeted a concerning statement today. According to them, Craig Murray’s reporting on the trial of Assange only escalated his mistreatment rather than helping to aid Assange. ” alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” /> Doctors 4 Assange circulated an open letter to the British government requesting the end […]
Federal prosecutors were unable to convince a jury on any of the spying-related charges against an ex-CIA engineer accused of stealing reams of classified material – in what may be a dry run for the case against Julian Assange. In a significant blow to prosecutors on Monday, jurors failed to come to a verdict on eight central counts against former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte, who […]
Authored by Philip Giraldi via The American Herald Tribune, The media is doing its best to make the Seth Rich story go away, but it seems to have a life of its own, possibly due to the fact that the accepted narrative about how Rich died makes no sense. In its latest manifestation, it provides an alternative explanation for just how the information from the Democratic […]
Julian Assange published the DNC leaks in 2016 not because of links to Russia, but because he was always longing for truth, John Shipton said as he recalled key moments of his son’s life in an interview with RT Documentary. Claims by the US intelligence services that Assange received the leaked 2016 Democratic National Committee emails directly from the Kremlin are “absurd,” Shipton said. WikiLeaks published […]
The Armoured Glass Box Is An Instrument Of Torture: The US Plot To Kill Assange By Craig Murray, Informationclearinghouse.info March 4, 2020 The Armoured Glass Box Is An Instrument Of Torture: The US Plot To Kill Assange2020-03-042020-03-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/hmpbelmarsh.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From Informationclearinghouse.info March 02, 2020 “Information Clearing House” – In Thursday’s separate hearing on allowing Assange out of the armoured box to sit with his legal team, I witnessed directly […]
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, who was convicted for revealing details about Operation Merlin. He discusses the extradition trial and persecution Julian Assange is facing, his own experience of being prosecuted –on circumstantial evidence– for whistleblowing, whether the WikiLeaks founder would face a fair trial in Virginia, his experiences of racism with the CIA, his advice for other potential […]
Assange: Empire Of Surveillance And Imperialism By Katu Arkonada, La Jornada, translation Resumen Latinoamericano March 4, 2020 Assange: Empire Of Surveillance And Imperialism2020-03-042020-03-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/3-2-assange.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From La Jornada The trial against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a perfect metaphor for how United States imperialism operates in the world today. The Armed Forces, the Department of State, and the CIA caused thousands of deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Syria, […]
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via CaitlinJohnstone.com, The propagandists have all gone dead silent on the WikiLeaks founder they previously were smearing with relentless viciousness, because they no longer have an argument. The facts are all in, and yes, it turns out the US government is certainly and undeniably working to exploit legal loopholes to imprison a journalist for exposing its war crimes. That is happening, and there is […]
Authored by Pepe Escobar via ConsortiumNews.com, It’s quite fitting that the – imperially pre-determined – judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell. As chronicled by the painful, searing reports of Ambassador Craig Murray, what’s taking place in Woolwich Crown Court is a sub-Orwellian farce with Conradian overtones: the horror…the horror…, remixed for the Raging Twenties. The heart of our […]
Julian Assange Hearing Day Four February 28, 2020 Julian Assange Hearing Day Four2020-02-282020-02-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/julian-assange-court-sketch-e1582925581237.jpg200px200px Above photo: Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the dock reading his papers as he appears at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in London for his extradition hearing. Please try this experiment for me. Try asking this question out loud, in a tone of intellectual interest and engagement: “Are you […]
Authored by Andrew Napolitano via LewRockwell.com, “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech.” – First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution In the oral argument of the famous U.S. Supreme Court cases known collectively as the Pentagon Papers Case, the late Justice William O. Douglas asked a government lawyer if the Department of Justice views the “no law” language in the First Amendment to […]
Irish MEP Mick Wallace slammed US prosecutors for “undermining” international law” during Julian Assange extradition hearings and warned that, if the whistleblower is extradited, freedom of the press will be a “thing of the past.” Speaking outside Woolwich Crown Court on the third day of the preliminary hearings, Wallace said James Lewis QC, acting for the US government, was putting international law and freedom of the […]
Julian Assange Hearing Day Two February 26, 2020 Julian Assange Hearing Day Two2020-02-262020-02-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/1582577594866-e1582728825862.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Assange (left) in a courtroom sketch during his extradition hearing in London on Monday. Photograph: Julia Quenzler/Reuters This afternoon Julian’s Spanish lawyer, Baltasar Garzon, left court to return to Madrid. On the way out he naturally stopped to shake hands with his client, proffering his fingers through the narrow slit in […]
On the third day of his extradition hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has rebuked the court for preventing him from communicating with his legal team, saying his prosecutors have “100 times more contact hours each day.” Amid a prosecution argument about whether or not he stands charged with “political offenses” Assange stood and told the court that “the problem is I cannot participate, I cannot privately […]
Day three of the Julian Assange extradition hearing is focusing on whether the allegations against Assange amount to “political offenses.” If so, it would likely be outside of the judge’s jurisdiction to approve extradition. Kicking off proceedings at Woolwich Crown Court on Wednesday, defense counsel Edward Fitzgerald argued that 17 of the 18 counts with which the WikiLeaks founder has been charged fall under the US […]
Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, One thing we’ve learned from the Trump Presidency is that the “deep state” is not just some crazy conspiracy theory. For the past three years we’ve seen that deep state launch plot after plot to overturn the election. It all started with former CIA director John Brennan’s phony “Intelligence Assessment” of Russian involvement […]
US 01:37 GMT 26.02.2020Get short URL The allegation was made on the second day of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing at Woolwich Crown Court in London. Assange is fighting against being forcibly sent to the United States to stand trial over the 2010 leak of classified materials relating to US military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The defence team for the imprisoned founder of WikiLeaks, […]
Assange Court Report: Day Two February 25, 2020 Assange Court Report: Day Two2020-02-252020-02-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/day2-e1582670244416.jpg200px200px Defence complains about Assange “mistreatment.” The case against him is “Lies, lies and more lies.” Unredacted cables leaked after password “disclosed” by Guardian journalists. Assange personally warned the White House of the leak The second day of the extradition hearing of Julian Assange opened today with a discussion about how he is being […]
The US government plotted to kidnap or kill Julian Assange while he was holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a UK court was told yesterday during the WikiLeaks publisher’s extradition hearing. What do we know so far? Assange’s lawyer Edward Fitzgerald told Judge Vanessa Baraitser that the US wanted to make the WikiLeaks founder’s death look like an accident and that US intelligence agencies […]
Assange Hearing Day One By Craig Murray, American Herald Tribune. February 25, 2020 Assange Hearing Day One2020-02-252020-02-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/assange_hearing_3d95e-e1582670554447.jpg200px200px London – Woolwich Crown Court is designed to impose the power of the state. Normal courts in this country are public buildings, deliberately placed by our ancestors right in the centre of towns, almost always just up a few steps from a main street. The major purpose of their […]
UK 17:03 GMT 25.02.2020Get short URL Julian Assange is charged with 17 counts under the espionage act and one count of “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion”. This charge has been erroneously misused by the US to represent an attempted act of ‘hacking’ in order to shield Chelsea Manning from detection while revealing classified documents to WikiLeaks, according to his defence. US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning sought […]