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Ithaka review: Julian Assange doc features father John Shipton and wife Stella Moris but tries to make the issue the story, not the man
https://www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/julian-assange-doco-ithaka-tries-to-make-the-issue-not-the-man-the-story-20220530-p5apro.html

asi jen pres vpn...

https://www.novarepublika.cz/2022/04/otevreny-dopis-premierovi-cr-odeslany-v-patek-22-dubna-2022

Vážený pane premiére,

proti verdiktu z tohoto týdne, že pan Julian Assange může být vydán do Spojených států, už u britské justice není odvolání. Zvrátit jej tak je pouze v silách vlády či osobně premiéra Jejího Veličenstva.


Pan Julian Assange je perzekvován za to, že uplatnil svobodu projevu z těch nejušlechtilejších pohnutek. Skutečné pozadí agresí, vedených v rozporu s Chartou OSN, odhalil statisíci doličných předmětů, o jejichž autenticitě není pochyb. Neohrozil tím jediný lidský život či zdraví, ani národní bezpečnost kteréhokoli státu. Další ničivé války, jež byly v původním plánu, se naopak podařilo odvrátit i nemalou zásluhou WikiLeaks.
Pan Julian Assange je přesto drasticky krácen na svých právech a svobodách již desátým rokem. Vážně to poškodilo i jeho zdraví. Bude-li vydán do USA, je téměř jisté, že stráví zbytek života za mřížemi.


Vláda, jíž předsedáte, i Vy osobně jste se, vážený pane premiére, zavázali našim občanům i okolnímu světu k rozhodné obraně demokratických norem a práv. Svoboda projevu je jejich úhlavním pilířem. Proto se na Vás obracíme s naléhavou výzvou, abyste u svých britských partnerů intervenoval za obnovu všech nezadatelných práv pana Juliana Assange, který se zasadil o věc míru a demokracie obdivuhodně neohroženým způsobem.
Útrapy, jimž je bezdůvodně vystaven, jsou alarmujícím mementem napříč celým demokratickým světem. Vyvoďme z něj včasné a důsledné závěry i v naší zemi!



MUDr. Ivan David, CSc., PhDr. Petr Hampl, Ph.D., Ing. Viktoria Hradská, Prof. PhDr. Jan Keller, CSc., Prof. PhDr. Stanislava Kučerová, CSc., PhDr. Marie Neudorflová, Ph.D., Eva Novotná, Václav Novotný, Lenka Procházková, Jan Schneider, PhDr. Josef Skála, CSc., plk. Ing. Jaroslav Štefec, CSc., Dr. Ing. Jaroslav Šulc, CSc., Doc. RNDr. Radim Valenčík, CSc., Ivan Vyskočil, PhDr. Zdeněk Zbořil

Mluvčí našeho dopisu je spisovatelka Lenka Procházková, Jeronýmova 2, 130 00 Praha 3

Julian Assange: Order issued for Wikileaks founder’s extradition to the United States | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/julian-assange-wikileaks-espionage-us-b2061367.html

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Stella Moris statement on UK Supreme Court's refusal to hear Assange Appeal


Reacting to the UK Supreme Court's refusal to hear Julian Assange's appeal, his fiancee Stella Moris said:

“Just this morning on our way to school, our four-year-old son asked me when daddy will come home. Julian's life is being treated as if it were expendable. He has been robbed of over a decade of liberty, and three years from his home and his young children who are being forced to grow up without their father. A system that allows this is a system that has lost its way.

Whether Julian is extradited or not, which is the same as saying whether he lives or dies, is being decided through a process of legal avoidance. Avoiding to hear arguments that challenge the UK courts' deference to unenforceable and caveated claims regarding his treatment made by the United States, the country that plotted to murder him. The country whose atrocities he brought into the public domain. Julian is the key witness, the principle indicter, and the cause of enormous embarrassment to successive US governments.

Julian was just doing his job, which was to publish the truth about wrongdoing. His loyalty is the same as that which all journalists should have: to the public. Not to the spy agencies of a foreign power. He published evidence that the country that is trying to extradite him committed war crimes and covered them up; that it committed gross violations that killed tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children; that it tortured and rendered; that it bombed children, had death squads, and murdered Reuters journalists in cold blood; that it bribed foreign officials and bullied less powerful countries into harming their own citizens, and that it also corrupted allied nations' judicial inquiries into US wrongdoing. For this, that country wants him in prison for 175 years.

Now the extradition will formally move to a political stage. Julian's fate now lies in the hands of Home Secretary Priti Patel. This is a political case and she can end it. It is in her hands to prove that the UK is better than all of this. Patel can end Britain's exposure to international ridicule because of Julian's incarceration. It takes political courage but that is what it needed to preserve an open society that protects publishers from foreign persecution.

The cruelty against Julian is corrupting. It corrupts our most cherished values and institutions. They will be extinguished and lost forever unless this travesty is brought to an end.

The fight for freedom will go on, until he's freed."