On Monday May 9, 2022, Defending Rights & Dissent urged UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to reject the US’s extradition request for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. As US-based NGO focused on the First Amendment, it is highly unusual for us to correspond with foreign governments. However, given the extraordinary nature of Assange’s case and its implications for press freedom not just in the US, but globally, we are compelled to do so. For 12 years, our organization has closely monitored the US government’s attacks on WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange. We have also monitored the cases of other individuals indicted […]
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Members of the German Bundestag To: Mr Richard Burgon MPMr David Davis MPMs Diane Abbot MPMs Caroline Lucas MPMr Tommy Sheppard MpMr John McDonnell MPMr Jeremy Corbyn MPMr Kenny MacAskill MPMs Apsana Begum MPMr Ian Byrne MPMr Neale Hanvey MPMs Bell Addy-Ribeiro MP Ms Claudia Webbe MPMs Kate Osborne MPMr Ian Lavery MPMs Zarah Sultana MPMs Joanna Cherry MPMr Martyn Day MPMr Stuart C McDonald MPMr Hywel Williams MPMr Grahame Morris MPMr Ben Lake MPMr Tony Lloyd MPMs Rachael Maskell MP Berlin, May 3, 2022 Subject: Concern for Julian Assange, founder of the platform Wikileaks Dear honorable Members of Parliament,Esteemed colleagues […]
Above Photo: Westminster Magistrates Court. (GrimsbyT / Wikimedia Commons) A London court on Wednesday sent an order to extradite Julian Assange to the U.K. home secretary, who has four weeks to decide. But Assange still has legal options. An order to extradite WikiLeaks‘ publisher Julian Assange was sent to British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday morning by Westminster Magistrate’s Court. The order came after the U.K. Supreme Court last month declined to hear Assange’s appeal of a High Court decision to allow the extradition to the United States to proceed. Patel now has four weeks to decide whether to send […]
Above Photo: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange supporters hold placards as they gather outside Westminster Magistrates court In London. (Alastair Grant / The Associated Press). Home Secretary Priti Patel will decide whether to approve UK court order to extradite WikiLeaks founder. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a step closer to being extradited to the United States following an order by a United Kingdom court. With Assange supporters gathered outside, the Westminster Magistrates’ court in London formally issued an order on Wednesday to extradite the Australian to the US to face spying charges for publishing a trove of classified information more than 10 years ago. […]
Extradition Looms For Assange After Court Refuses To Hear His Appeal By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. March 18, 2022 Extradition Looms For Assange After Court Refuses To Hear His Appeal2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318-2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Supporters of Julian Assange stage a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court in London, United Kingdom, on January 24, 2022. Rasid Necati Aslim / Anadolu Agency Via Getty Images. The British judicial system has erected still another barrier to Julian Assange’s freedom. On March 14, the U.K. Supreme Court refused to hear Assange’s appeal of the U.K. High Court’s ruling ordering his extradition to the United States. If extradited to the […]
UK Supreme Court Slams Door On Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized By Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. March 16, 2022 UK Supreme Court Slams Door On Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized2022-03-162022-03-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220316.png200px200px Above Photo: Supreme Court in the United Kingdom (Marco Assini). If the British Home Office approves extradition, Assange’s defense may submit an appeal on the issues of freedom of the press. Without any explanation, the British Supreme Court denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “permission to appeal” a decision by the British High Court. The Supreme Court maintained the appeal did not “raise an arguable point of law” and sent […]
Above Photo: Honduran national police arrested former president Juan Orlando Hernández from his residence in the capital Tegucigalpa on February 15. Reuters via Twitter. Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández is accused of drug trafficking-related crimes and the US has sought the extradition of its former ally. For the people of the country, his ‘narco-dictatorship’ was a well-known fact. On Wednesday, February 16, former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) appeared in court in Tegucigalpa for the first time in connection with the extradition request from the United States to face trial on drug-trafficking charges. . On Tuesday, Honduran national police […]
Above Photo: In his video grab, former president Juan Orlando Hernández is handcuffed as police take him out of his house. Honduras police / AFP/Getty Images. Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández has been arrested, a day after the US Department of Justice requested his extradition over drug trafficking and weapons charges, culminating a spectacular fall from grace for a man who was once considered one of Washington’s top allies in Central America. On Tuesday afternoon Hernández left his home in a wealthy neighborhood in the country’s capital, Tegucigalpa, where he was cuffed at the hands and feet and provided a […]
Above Photo: Twitter profile of former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi, now of NBC News. Hiding His Key Role. The Most Dangerous, And Under-Discussed, Development In Corporate Media Is The Spate Of Ex-Security State Agents Now Employed To Deliver The “News.” Two of the television outlets on which American liberals rely most for their news — NBC News and CNN — have spent the last six years hiring a virtual army of former CIA operatives, FBI officials, NSA spies, Pentagon chiefs, and DOJ prosecutors to work in their newsrooms. The multiple ways in which journalism is fundamentally corrupted by this spectacle are […]
Above Photo: Screengrab of video showing “outside High Court As It Decides On Overturning US Extradition Ruling On Julian Assange”. RT / YouTube. On Thursday afternoon I was in Edinburgh High Court to get back my passport, which had been confiscated during my own court proceedings avowedly to stop me going to Spain to testify in the trial of David Morales of UC Global. He stands accused by whistleblowers in his own company of spying on Julian Assange, his lawyers and other associates (including myself), on behalf of the CIA, and in engaging with them on plans to kidnap or assassinate Assange. Having […]
Above Photo: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Cancillería Ecuador). Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom after the country’s appeals court overturned a decision that blocked the extradition of Assange to the United States. The High Court of Justice was “satisfied” with diplomatic assurances offered by the U.S. government related to how Assange would be treated in jail or prison, and they stated, “There is no reason why this court should not accept the assurances as meaning what they say.” “There is no basis for assuming that the U.S.A. has not given […]
Above Photo: Stella Moris, fiancee of Julian Assange, speaks to journalists in front of the High Court in London, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021 (Credit: AP Photo/Frank Augstein) …That Plotted To Kill A Publisher Because Of What He Published?” Stella Moris is the fiancée of Julian Assange. They have two children together. Speaking outside the High Court in London after two senior judges ruled in favor of the WikiLeaks publisher’s extradition to the United States, she made the following impassioned statement. I want to emphasize that the High Court accepted all the medical evidence and the conclusions of the magistrate that if […]
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange in London with Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News. For the past two days, Chris Hedges has been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The United States is appealing a lower court ruling that denied the US’ request to extradite Assange not, unfortunately, because in the eyes of the court he is innocent of a crime, but because, as Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January concluded, Assange’s precarious psychological state would deteriorate given the “harsh conditions” of the inhumane US prison system, “causing him to commit […]
Above Photo: Julian Assange’s extradition appeal hearing, Oct 27, 2021 (Julia Quenzler / SWNS) Assange Too Unwell To View Proceedings Remotely Julian Assange’s extradition appeal hearing, which will turn in part on determinations about his health and risk of suicide, commenced with the news that Julian was too ill to even follow the proceedings by remote videolink from Belmarsh prison. Julian did enter the viewing box about midway through the morning’s session, but he appeared thin and unwell, and he could be seen leaving the room about an hour later. Assange’s extradition was denied in January of this year when District Judge Vanessa […]
Above Photo: Protesters hold placards and a banner during a march from the BBC to Royal Courts of Justice in support of Julian Assange on October 23, 2021, in London, UK. Loredana Sangiuliano / SOPA Images / LightRocket Via Getty Images. Why is Joe Biden’s Department of Justice continuing Donald Trump’s persecution of WikiLeaks founder, publisher and journalist Julian Assange? Barack Obama, concerned about threats to the First Amendment freedom of the press, decided against indicting Assange for exposing U.S. war crimes. Trump did indict Assange, under Espionage Act charges that could garner him 175 years in prison. A British district judge denied […]
Above photo: Attorney General Merrick Garland, head of the U.S. Justice Department under President Joe Biden. NOTE: Kevin Gosztola will remotely cover the Assange appeal hearing on October 27-28 and will have live updates on proceedings that can be followed on Twitter from @kgosztola. London – On October 27, the High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom will hear the Crown Prosecution Service argue on behalf of the United States government that a lower court improperly blocked the U.S. from extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The proceedings in London are expected to last two days and will involve five grounds for […]
Assange Legal Team Submits Closing Argument Against Extradition By Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. November 10, 2020 Assange Legal Team Submits Closing Argument Against Extradition2020-11-102020-11-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/assange.png200px200px In submission to magistrates’ court in London, attorneys detail the “politically motivated” case the Trump administration pursued against the WikiLeaks founder. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team submitted their closing argument to a British magistrates’ court. They argue, “It is politically motivated, it is an abuse of the process of this court, and it is a clear violation of the Anglo-U.S. treaty that governs this extradition.” The closing argument relies on evidence presented by witnesses, who testified […]
Judge Approves Extradition Of Kyle Rittenhouse By Michael Tarm, AP News. October 31, 2020 Judge Approves Extradition Of Kyle Rittenhouse2020-10-312020-10-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/kr-e1604161834875.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Kyle Rittenhouse appears for an extradition hearing, Oct. 30, 2020. Nam Y. Huh/Pool. The 17-year-old faces a potential life sentence for fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha in August. Waukegan, IL – An Illinois judge on Friday ordered a 17-year-old accused of killing two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to be extradited across the border to stand trial on homicide charges. The ruling came several hours after a hearing at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan, where defense lawyers sought […]
The same judge dismissed another appeal by Meng back in May in which she sought to end the extradition case for good due to her arrest purportedly lacking grounds according to Canadian laws. Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou has lost her appeal to unseal confidential documents related to her extradition case after Canadian Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes dismissed the possibility of doing so, claiming that it would violate confidentiality agreements with other parties, Bloomberg reports. Holmes did not elaborate any further on her ruling. Meng, who claims to have been illegally arrested in December 2018, was seeking to disclose […]
Former software guru and one-time presidential candidate John McAfee has been nabbed in Spain on tax evasion and cryptocurrency fraud, ending his year long stint as a globetrotting fugitive. He now faces extradition to the US. The US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission both announced charges for McAfee on Monday, hitting the security software founder with 10 counts linked to dodging the IRS and another series of charges for promoting investments in cryptocurrencies without disclosing that he was paid some $23 million to do so. “John McAfee earned millions in income from promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting work, speaking engagements, […]
On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing October 4, 2020 On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/craigmurray-e1601825376724.jpg200px200px Chris Hedges discusses with former British ambassador Craig Murray the hearing that just adjourned in London to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Murray’s exhaustive reporting, which can be found at craigmurray.org.uk, has become one of the few sources of reliable information about the hearing, which has become notoriously difficult to cover due to court restrictions imposed on the press, and is being ignored by most mainstream news organizations. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing: The Only Just Outcome Is His Freedom By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. October 3, 2020 Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing: The Only Just Outcome Is His Freedom2020-10-032020-10-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/free-assange-e1601751361764.jpeg200px200px The testimony portion of the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, taking place in the United Kingdom, concluded after four weeks. Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who presided over the hearing, will not announce her decision until January. Until then, Assange will remain in detention in Belmarsh Prison. Under conditions that violated Assange’s rights and his ability to defend himself, his legal team made a clear case that for multiple reasons the only just […]
The argument that Mr Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning in 2010 to hide her identity in order to secure classified US documents is not supported by the evidence a 20-year-long US Army investigator told the Old Bailey on Friday. The conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge levied against Julian Assange by the US government is not based on a reliable set of presumptions, the Old Bailey heard on Friday. Mr Patrick Eller, who served 20 years in the US Army, was Command Digital Forensic Examiner at the US Army Criminal Investigation Command headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. He has reviewed the computer intrusion […]
The government has argued that the WikiLeaks publisher isn’t at high risk of suicide should he be extradited to the US where he would face a trial on espionage charges related to his role in publishing classified documents pertaining to diplomacy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Dr Sondra Crosby, a medical doctor from the US who treated Julian Assange whilst he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy with asylum, told the Old Bailey on Thursday afternoon that Mr Assange described symptoms of depression and PTSD when she saw him in October 2017. US […]
A prosecutor representing the US at Julian Assange’s extradition hearings has argued that the WikiLeaks founder could be feigning depression after a psychiatrist said he might commit sucide if he is sent to the US to be tried. James Lewis, the lawyer representing Washington at Assange’s hearings in London, sought to poke holes in the testimony of renowned professor of neuropsychiatry, Michael Kopelman, who said on Tuesday that the WikiLeaks founder is suffering from “severe depression” after being confined to the maximum security Belmarsh Prison for over 16 months. Kopelman, who has visited Assange more than 20 times in prison, opined […]
Day Nine: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing September 16, 2020 Day Nine: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing2020-09-162020-09-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/merlin-e1600263950544.jpg200px200px Above photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Things became not merely dramatic in the Assange courtroom today, but spiteful and nasty. There were two real issues, the evidence and the procedure. On the evidence, there were stark details of the dreadful regime Assange will face in US jails if extradited. On the procedure, we saw behaviour from the prosecution QC that went well beyond normal cross examination and was a real attempt to denigrate and even humiliate the witness. I hope to prove that to you […]
Hot on the heels of a coronavirus scare, Julian Assange’s extradition hearing was postponed on Monday following a farcical videolink failure which meant the court could not hear the testimony of a prominent witness. The court was hearing from witness Eric Lewis, an experienced US lawyer, when out of the blue it was interrupted by a Fox News video about WikiLeaks. The source of the unexpected interruption was never revealed and the court went into recess in a bid to resolve the technical difficulties. Lewis was expected to give evidence that Assange would face a “flagrant denial of justice” if put […]
Assange Extradition And The War On Journalism By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. September 10, 2020 Assange Extradition And The War On Journalism2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/shipton-e1599743398832.jpg200px200px Above photo: John Shipton, the father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, stands in front of a “Don’t Extradite Assange” poster as he arrives at the Old Bailey, London, ahead of a hearing in Assange’s battle against extradition to the US, Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Assange is fighting to avoid being sent to the US to face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion after the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and […]
Harry Dunn’s alleged killer Anne Sacoolas who left England after ‘causing his death by driving on the wrong side of the road’ DID NOT have diplomatic immunity, his family is told Harry Dunn, 19, died when his motorcycle was struck by car near RAF Croughton Anne Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity after the collision in August 2019 Director of Public Prosecutions concluded suspect should not have left the UK It comes as Mr Dunn’s family filed a lawsuit against Mrs Sacoolas in Virginia UK Daily Mail: Harry Dunn’s family have been told that his alleged killer did not have diplomatic immunity, according to the Director of […]
After shouting “nonsense” at a lawyer representing the US government, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was ordered by a UK judge to remain silent or be removed from his own trial. Assange is currently facing extradition to the US over accusations he conspired to hack government computers and broke an espionage law over the release of confidential cables in 2010 and 2011. On the second day of Assange’s London trial, which was already delayed from May due to the coronavirus pandemic, lawyer James Lewis, representing the US government, said at one point Assange was facing extradition and charges not over the leaking […]
LONDON—The court hearing that could end in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to the United States to face charges over the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents finally got underway Monday after a months-long pandemic delay. Crowds crammed together outside the Old Bailey court building in central London where, inside, Assange told the district judge that he he does not consent to being extradited to the U.S. Over the next four weeks, the court will consider whether Assange can be forced to face justice in the U.S., where an 18-count indictment accuses him of recruiting hackers to steal […]
Kyle Rittenhouse A judge on Friday granted Kyle Rittenhouse’s request to delay his extradition hearing to September 25. The Illinois judge postponed a decision on whether 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse should be returned to Wisconsin to face charges after he killed two men in what now appears to be acts of self defense, reported AP. Rittenhouse was arrested on Wednesday and is currently being held at a Lake County juvenile center. The teen was hit with 6 charges on Thursday: TRENDING: BREAKING: Violent Black Lives Matter Mob Attacks Sen. Rand Paul as He Leaves RNC in DC 1)1st-Degree Reckless Homicide2)1st-Degree Recklessly Endangering […]
Stella Moris, the partner of Julian Assange, has launched a CrowdJustice campaign to help reinforce the WikiLeaks founder’s legal defense as it faces new traps set by US prosecutors. The crowdfunding appeal is designed to help cover the extensive legal costs of the London Magistrates hearings to decide whether Assange will be extradited to the US, where he faces a possible 175-year prison sentence. The charges leveled against the journalist include conspiracy, vague accusations that he recruited hackers to assist him, violation of the US Espionage Act, and conspiracy to “commit computer intrusion” for allegedly trying to help ex-US Army whistleblower […]
A fortnight after their arrest raised eyebrows, and ignoring Ukrainian attempts to extradite most of them, the authorities in Belarus have released 32 Russian citizens they accused of attempting to undermine state security. The KGB claimed the men were fighters from the Wagner private military contractor company who arrived in the country to prepare for mass riots. Moscow said the 33 detainees – one is a Belarussian citizen and hasn’t been transferred to Russia – were indeed security personnel, but Minsk was only the transit point to their final destination. Russia had closed almost all international air routes from late March […]
Above photo: The only known photograph of district judge Vanessa Baraitser — who will rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US — in the public domain. Anonymisation by Declassified. From Instagram. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US in what appears to be an irregular application of the Freedom of Information Act, it can be revealed. Declassified has also discovered that the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, has ordered extradition in 96% of the cases she has presided over for which information is publicly […]
Julian Assange’s substantive extradition hearings are expected to recommence at the Central Criminal Court of England on 7 September, where witnesses for both the prosecution and the defence are due to testify at this hotly contested legal challenge. British artist and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood denounced the treatment of imprisoned journalist and publisher Julian Assange, whilst dressed in a yellow suite and inside a large metal cage, outside the Old Bailey criminal court in central London, on the morning of 21 July 2020. “I am Julian Assange, I am the canary in the cage. If I die down the coal mine […]
On Tuesday, Beijing’s top legislative body, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), passed a new national security law for Hong Kong that is seen by residents of the Special Administrative Region as a violation of their liberties. The legislation was signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the day. Ottawa is “seriously concerned” about the new national security law for Hong Kong passed by China’s top legislative body and signed by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Friday. “Canada joins the international community in reiterating its serious concern at the passage of […]
Chris Hedges On Contact: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing June 29, 2020 Chris Hedges On Contact: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing2020-06-292020-06-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/marjarie-cohn-on-rt-on-contact-e1593395530951.png200px200px Above photo: Screenshot of Marjorie Cohn on RTs On Contact On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange with lawyer, author and professor, Marjorie Cohn. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught from 1991 to 2016, and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Professor Cohn is the editor of and a contributor to ‘The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse’, and ‘Drones and Targeted Killings: Legal, […]
Mr Assange faces 18 charges under the indictment, all of which relate to his role in publishing classified documents revealing, among other things, war crimes committed by US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay in 2010 – 2011. Julian Assange’s case took an unexpected turn at the latest hearing at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Monday, with the defence telling the judge that it was “surprised” to have learned about the US’s superseding indictment against their client via the press. “A superseding indictment is supposed to do what it says on the tin, it’s supposed to replace the existing indictment’, said […]
Meng’s arrest in December 2018 led to a deterioration in Sino-Canadian relations and was swiftly followed by the detention of Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who have since been charged with espionage by Beijing. Chinese authorities, however, deny that the incidents are related to the Meng trial. A group of former Canadian legislators and diplomats have published a letter urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to intervene and stop the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, previously arrested in Winnipeg on a US warrant. According to them, it could make Beijing release two Canadians – Michael Kovrig and Michael […]
Assange Extradition: ’60 Minutes’ Gives Assange Fair Shake June 23, 2020 Assange Extradition: ’60 Minutes’ Gives Assange Fair Shake2020-06-232020-06-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/assange-1.jpg200px200px The Australian version of the CBS News program ’60 Minutes’ presented a segment on Julian Assange Sunday night that was missing the usual mainstream media smears and distortions about his case. Australia’s 60 Minutes newsmagazine Sunday night aired an extensive interview with Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s partner, and featured the two boys the couple have had together. While the promos for the segment during the week indicated it would focus on salacious questions such as, “How does one get pregnant in […]
Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers have insisted US prosecutors misinterpreted what they consider to be the most prominent evidence against Meng – a PowerPoint presentation to the bank HSBC, by omitting crucial disclosure from the document. Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou is raising a new argument in a Canadian court as she has stepped up efforts to fight extradition to the United States on financial fraud charges, according to British Columbia court documents released on Monday. Meng’s lawyers insisted that the case the United States launched in Canada is “so replete with intentional and reckless error” that it violates her rights. “Ms Meng […]