Assange judge is 40-year “good friend” of minister who orchestrated his arrest
https://declassifieduk.org/assange-judge-is-40-year-good-friend-of-minister-who-orchestrated-his-arrest/

Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge that will soon decide Julian Assange’s fate, is a close personal friend of Sir Alan Duncan, who as foreign minister arranged Assange’s eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy.

The two have known each other since their student days at Oxford in the 1970s, when Duncan called Burnett “the Judge”. Burnett and his wife attended Duncan’s birthday dinner at a members-only London club in 2017, when Burnett was a judge at the court of appeal.

Now the most powerful judge in England and Wales, Burnett will soon rule on Assange’s extradition case. The founder of WikiLeaks faces life imprisonment in the US.

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Duncan served as foreign minister for Europe and the Americas from 2016-19. He was the key official in the UK government campaign to force Assange from the embassy.

As minister, Duncan did not hide his opposition to Julian Assange, calling him a “miserable little worm” in parliament in March 2018.

In his diaries, Duncan refers to the “supposed human rights of Julian Assange”. He admits to arranging a Daily Mail hit piece on Assange that was published the day after the journalist’s arrest in April 2019.

Duncan watched UK police pulling the WikiLeaks publisher from the Ecuadorian embassy via a live-feed in the Operations Room at the top of the Foreign Office.

He later admitted he was “trying to keep the smirk off [his] face”, and hosted drinks at his parliamentary office for the team involved in the eviction.

Duncan then flew to Ecuador to meet President Lenín Moreno in order to “say thank you” for handing over Assange. Duncan reported he gave Moreno “a beautiful porcelain plate from the Buckingham Palace gift shop.”

“Job done,” he added.

“A Lot of Mistakes”: The Guardian and Julian Assange 
https://www.mintpressnews.com/a-lot-of-mistakes-the-guardian-and-julian-assange/279088/

Excellent expose of how the Guardian desperately tried to get info that would nail Julian Assange.
On anniversary of the Manafort story, John McEvoy and Pablo Navarrete conducted 2 exclusive interviews & gained access to The Guardian correspondence. This Explosive new investigative piece by John McEvoy and Pablo Navarrete documents that The Guardian knew that the security company meant to be protecting Assange was actually spying on him. They didn’t publish the story. Instead, they requested transcripts of the conversations being spied on.

U.S. stonewalls probe into security firm that allegedly spied on Assange for CIA, says Spanish judge
https://news.yahoo.com/us-stonewalls-probe-into-security-firm-that-allegedly-spied-on-assange-for-cia-says-spanish-judge-191433247.htmll

MADRID — The Justice Department has failed to respond to multiple requests from Spanish authorities for help in an investigation into a local security firm suspected of being used by the CIA to conduct aggressive — and potentially illegal — surveillance of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Julian Assange In His Own Words, edited by Karen Sharpe | OR BOOKS
https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/julian-assange-in-his-own-words/

Julian Assange In His Own Words provides a highly accessible survey of Assange’s philosophy and politics, conveying his views on how governments, corporations, intelligence agencies and the media function. As well as addressing the significance of the vast trove of leaked documents published by WikiLeaks, Assange draws on a polymathic intelligence to range freely over quantum physics, Greek mythology, macroeconomics, modern literature, and empires old and new.

Drawing on his insights as the world’s most famous free speech activist Assange invites us to ask further questions about how power operates in a world increasingly dominated by a ubiquitous internet.

WikiLeaks: a True History
Untitled
https://jaraparilla.xyz/index.html

This book is a crowdfunded project that aims to establish a true and lasting record of the WikiLeaks organisation. The author’s note explains why this book is necessary. All chapters below are now available FREE

US/UK: “Drop the charges, stop the extradition and free Julian Assange,” says Amnesty head - Amnesty International
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/news-news/2021/10/us-uk-drop-the-charges-stop-the-extradition-and-free-julian-assange-says-amnesty-head/

"Ahead of an appeal hearing against the decision by a UK court not to extradite Julian Assange to the USA, Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on US authorities to drop the charges against him and the UK authorities not to extradite him but release him immediately.

The call by Agnès Callamard follows an investigation by Yahoo News revealing that US security services considered kidnapping or killing Julian Assange when he was resident in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. These reports further weaken already unreliable US diplomatic assurances that Assange will not be placed in conditions that could amount to ill-treatment if extradited.

'Assurances by the US government that they would not put Julian Assange in a maximum security prison or subject him to abusive Special Administrative Measures were discredited by their admission that they reserved the right to reverse those guarantees. Now, reports that the CIA considered kidnapping or killing Assange have cast even more doubt on the reliability of US promises and further expose the political motivation behind this case,' said Amnesty Secretary General, Agnès Callamard."

TADEAS:

The Belmarsh Tribunal: The War On Terror is Put on Trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_xxGWAxlGc


Just after the bombshell revelations about the CIA plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange while he sought political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the Progressive International comes to London with the first physical Belmarsh Tribunal. The intervention comes ahead of Assange’s extradition proceedings, which are set to continue in London’s High Court from 27 to 28 October 2021.

Featuring:
Tariq Ali
Renata Ávila
Apsana Begum
Richard Burgon
Jeremy Corbyn
Rafael Correa
Özlem Demirel
Deepa Govindarajan Driver
Daniel Ellsberg
Selay Ghaffar
Heike Hänsel
Srecko Horvat
Annie Machon
Stefania Maurizi
John McDonnell
Edward Snowden
Yanis Varoufakis
Ben Wizner
Eyal Weizman.

The Belmarsh Tribunal: Free Julian Assange
https://act.progressive.international/belmarsh-tribunal/

For exposing the criminality of the War on Terror, the US and its allies have persecuted, imprisoned, and plotted to assassinate Julian Assange. Belmarsh Tribunal turns the tables in the extradition hearing against Julian Assange, a case that will shape the future of journalism for decades to come.

Organized by The Progressive International the tribunal will hold its first physical proceedings in London at the Convocation Hall, Church House, Westminster.

WHEN: 3pm BST, 22 October

Srećko Horvat, cabinet member of the Progressive International and one of the founders of the Belmarsh Tribunal, said:

"After the revelations about the murderous CIA plans to kill a publisher and journalist on British soil, not only the current US government but also the UK government must be held responsible for still keeping Assange in prison. The Biden administration should drop the charges against Assange and the UK government should free him immediately and end the suffering and torture of a courageous man who has committed no crime. In a society in which telling the truth becomes a crime, we are all accomplices of crime as long as Assange is in prison."