MTO: https://www.novarepublika.cz/2021/12/osobnosti-verejneho-zivota-zadaji-propusteni-juliana-assange

PRAHA, 21. prosince, 2021 – Neprodlené propuštění Juliana Assange, zakladatele a hlavního redaktora serveru WikiLeaks, požadují signatáři otevřeného dopisu britskému premiéru Borisi Johnsonovi, který byl dnes předán britskému velvyslanectví v Praze. Dopis podepsalo více než pět desítek vědců, vysokoškolských pedagogů, spisovatelů, básníků, publicistů, lékařů a dalších osobností veřejného života, včetně několika signatářů Charty 77 a bývalých politických vězňů.

Manufacturing Contempt for Assange: How the Media Made WikiLeaks Founder into a Scapegoat
https://www.mintpressnews.com/manufacturing-contempt-assange-media-made-wikileaks-founder-scapegoat/279257/

"The Guardian was one of WikiLeaks’s partner organizations, being fed bombshell after bombshell, revelations that helped build its brand and its audience. Yet, far from standing up for free speech and an open society, it was in the lead in attacking WikiLeaks and its founder."

Ivan David: Julian Assange je hrdina | VIP blogy známých osobností Vaše Věc
http://vasevec.parlamentnilisty.cz/komentare/ivan-david-julian-assange-je-hrdina

V nejbližších dnech předá skupina asi padesáti českých aktivistů dopis britskému premiérovi Borisi Johnsonovi se žádostí, aby zabránil vydání Juliana Assange do Spojených států amerických.

Hrozící trest pro novináře Juliana Assange by měl aktivizovat světovou veřejnost k jasnému protestu.

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Deputy Prime Minister of Australia @Barnaby_Joyce, presently in Washington DC, publishes op-ed against #Assange extradition.

Julian Assange is entitled to justice, despite criticisms of his personality
https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-have-never-met-julian-assange-and-i-presume-i-would-not-like-him-but-he-s-entitled-to-justice-20211212-p59gto.html

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.