Spain: Assange wins "Dignity Award" from Catalan commission
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=t9BeUenyHN0

Six legal arguments show why the US extradition of Julian Assange should be denied | The Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/...rguments-show-why-the-us-extradition-of-julian-assange-should-be-denied/

1. Client-lawyer confidentiality breached..
2. The initial charge is flawed..
3. Initial charge relies on co-operation from Manning..
4. Additional charges raised by the US are political..
5. US legal precedent argues that Assange’s work is protected by the US Constitution..
6. Threats of violence against Assange mean he’s unable to receive a fair trial..
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"The outcome of the extradition hearings will determine not only the fate of Assange but possibly the fate of journalists globally."

TADEAS:

Today, hundreds of “yellow vests” from France and protesters from other countries across Europe, including Belgium and Britain, are protesting outside Belmarsh maximum security prison in London to demand the freeing of WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange.

TADEAS:

WikiLeaks ambassador Joseph Farrell added that stripping Assange of free speech protections under the US Constitution “means that any foreign journalist is not protected by the First Amendment. This links in closely with what we have already said in the past is their extraterritorial arm. They are reaching into the United Kingdom for an Australian journalist who worked in Europe and the UK while publishing some of America’s most famous crimes. Now they are adding on to that, that he does not have protection under the First Amendment.”

“We have said previously that this is a precedent-setting case and the repercussions are already being seen with Glenn Greenwald’s indictment

French “yellow vests” protest for Assange outside Belmarsh prison in London - World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/25/yell-j25.html

As extradition hearing dates are set, US Department of Justice argues Assange has no First Amendment rights - World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/24/assa-j24.html

Assange moved out of solitary in UK prison | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6597815/assange-moved-out-of-solitary-in-uk-prison/?cs=14232

"The Australian has been held almost incommunicado with severe restrictions on his access to visitors in Belmarsh prison near London since April as he awaits his US extradition trial set to start on February 24.

Wikileaks ambassador Joseph Farrell says the 48-year-old was moved out of solitary in the medical wing into a different wing with 40 other inmates on Friday.

He says the breakthrough occurred after his legal team and three separate petitions by inmates to the prison governor that his treatment was unjust and unfair.

After meetings between the prison authorities, Assange's legal team and inmates, he was transferred."

Julian Assange may not be able to use First Amendment press protection if extradited | SBS News
https://www.sbs.com.au/...ange-may-not-be-able-to-use-first-amendment-press-protection-if-extradited

WikiLeaks Editor: US Is Saying First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Foreigners In Assange Case
https://medium.com/...saying-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-to-foreigners-in-assange-case-4eaf2cff69bb

“We have now learned from submissions and affidavits presented by the United States to this court that they do not consider foreign nationals to have a First Amendment protection,” Hrafnsson said.

“Now let that sink in for a second,” Hrafnsson continued. “At the same time that the US government is chasing journalists all over the world, they claim they have extra-territorial reach, they have decided that all foreign journalists which include many of you here, have no protection under the First Amendment of the United States. So that goes to show the gravity of this case. This is not about Julian Assange, it’s about press freedom.”

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This prosecutorial strategy would be very much in alignment with remarks made in 2017 by then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

“Julian Assange has no First Amendment freedoms. He’s sitting in an embassy in London. He’s not a U.S. citizen,” Pompeo told the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

That, like nearly every sound which emits from Pompeo’s amorphous face, was a lie.

The First Amendment is not a set of special free speech privileges that the US government magnanimously bestows upon a few select individuals, it’s a limitation placed upon the US government’s ability to restrict rights that all persons everywhere are assumed to have.

Can Human Rights Lawyer Jennifer Robinson Save Julian Assange?
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a30460536/jennifer-robinson-attorney-julian-assange/

Assange May Walk Free Thanks To CIA Bumbling: Former NYT General Counsel | Zero Hedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/...al/assange-may-walk-free-thanks-cia-bumbling-former-nyt-general-counsel

Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal
https://medium.com/...ias-deafening-silence-on-latest-wikileaks-drops-is-its-own-scandal-ad0d28fe0c5


As of this writing, a Google News search for this story brings up an article by RT, another by Al-Masdar News, and some entries by alternative outlets you’ve almost certainly never heard of like UrduPoint News and People’s Pundit Daily.
Make no mistake about it: this is insane. The fact that an extremely important news story of immense geopolitical consequence is not getting any mainstream news media coverage, at all, is absolutely stark raving insane.
Up until the OPCW leaks, WikiLeaks drops always made mainstream news headlines. Everyone remembers how the 2016 news cycle was largely dominated by leaked Democratic Party emails emerging from the outlet. Even the relatively minor ICE agents publication by WikiLeaks last year, containing information that was already public, garnered headlines from top US outlets like The Washington Post , Newsweek, and USA Today. Now, on this exponentially more important story, zero coverage.



OPCW Douma Docs
WikiLeaks - OPCW Douma Docs
https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/#OPCW-DOUMA%20-%20Release%20Part%204

According to the minutes leaked today: “With respect to the consistency of the observed and reported symptoms of the alleged victims with possible exposure to chlorine gas or similar, the experts were conclusive in their statements that there was no correlation between symptoms and chlorine exposure”.

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One of the documents is an e-mail exchange dated 27 and 28 February between members of the fact finding mission (FFM) deployed to Douma and the senior officials of the OPCW. It includes an e-mail from Sebastien Braha, Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, where he instructs that an engineering report from Ian Henderson should be removed from the secure registry of the organisation:

“Please get this document out of DRA [Documents Registry Archive]... And please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever in DRA”.

The main finding of Henderson, who inspected the sites in Douma and two cylinders that were found on the site of the alleged attack, was that they were more likely manually placed there than dropped from a plane or helicopter from considerable heights. His findings were omitted from the official final OPCW report on the Douma incident

Christmas Card Campaign - Don't Extradite Assange
https://dontextraditeassange.com/christmas-card/

Julian Assange - DJV gegen Auslieferung
https://www.djv.de/...bereich-download/pressemitteilungen/detail/article/djv-gegen-auslieferung.html

The German Association of Journalists opposes the extradition of Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States.

DOJ Begins Targeting Supporters of Julian Assange – Angel Fox Media
https://angelof-truth.com/2019/12/02/doj-begins-targeting-supporters-of-julian-assange/

We have little to no i formation as to why we are being targeted, but when I have more info, I will update.

Edward @Snowden’s urgent appeal to the German Bundestag.

“Please, hear me well: This is the opening shot of a new War on Journalism, and if we do not force it to a halt before the next shot is heard, this war will not be fought long on foreign shores.” https://t.co/Ucm1GtbCgt

Cablegate: Spanish judge to question Julian Assange over Ecuador embassy spying claims | In English | EL PAÍS
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/29/inenglish/1575044449_760169.amp.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/world/europe/assange-spying-embassy-Ecuador.html

His lawyers plan to introduce evidence from the Spanish case into the extradition case, arguing that it should block the British government from turning him over to the Americans. They say that the surveillance includes recordings of privileged conversations Mr. Assange had with his lawyers and doctors, and proves that he cannot receive a fair trial in the United States

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The British courts are unlikely to accept that argument, according to Amy Jeffress, a lawyer at Arnold & Porter in Washington and a former Justice Department attaché at the American Embassy in London. She said the legal standard is whether extradition would comply with Britain’s Human Rights Act, which protects the right to privacy but balances it against considerations like national security and fighting crime.

Mr. Assange is scheduled to testify on Dec. 20 by videoconference from Westminster Magistrates’ Court before Judge José de la Mata some 800 miles away, in Spain’s National Court in Madrid. The judge is handling the investigation into UC Global, a Spanish firm that was in charge of security at the Ecuadorean Embassy during Mr. Assange’s long stay there.

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The court case also relies on the testimony of some former employees of UC Global who have been granted witness protection. They said that Mr. Morales traveled to the United States once or twice a month, carrying with him hard disks containing recordings from inside the London embassy.

Mr. Morales repeatedly ordered them not to talk with Ecuadorean officials about his trips, they said.

In the court filing, the prosecution asserts that Mr. Morales returned from a security fair in Las Vegas in 2015, gathered his employees and told them that UC Global was going to work “for the dark side,” which he explained as referring to the United States authorities.

He signed a contract with Las Vegas Sands, the casino and resort company of Sheldon Adelson, and the prosecution contends that Mr. Morales passed information about Mr. Assange to security officials at the company, saying it acted as a go-between with the C.I.A