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Free Julian Assange
by zeynep＠keemail.me 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

How the US pursuit of Julian Assange is a distraction from impunity for war crimes By Stefan Simanowitz https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/10/how-the-us-pursuit-of-julian… In 1791, in an attempt to stop the publication of the first part of Thomas Paine’s seminal work, The Rights of Man, the British government tried to buy up the copyright. The publisher refused to sell. The following year, after the second part of the work was published, the government tried a more direct tactic, charging Paine with seditious libel. Outraged, Paine listed the things his book had done – exposing fraud, ending war and promoting universal peace – stating “if these things be libellous…let the name of libeller be engraven on my tomb.” More than 200 years on, governments around the world still endeavour to suppress damning information and target those responsible for exposing it. Today, the US government is attempting to overturn an earlier ruling blocking Julian Assange’s extradition. The appeal, scheduled to last two days, is expected to determine whether the High Court in London will accede to the US administration’s ongoing request that the Wikileaks founder be extradited to the US. If sent back to America, Assange would stand trial on espionage charges and if convicted could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years. The American prosecutors claim he conspired with a whistleblower – army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning – to obtain classified information. They say the publication of this evidence put their assets at risk. Assurances by the US authorities that they would not put Julian Assange in a maximum security prison or subject him to abusive Special Administrative Measures, including prolonged solitary confinement, have been discredited by their admission that they reserved the right to reverse those guarantees. Recent bombshell reports that the CIA considered kidnapping or killing Assange while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy have cast even more doubt on the reliability of US promises and further expose the political motivation behind this case. These revelations follow evidence produced in court – and not contested by the US government – that people allegedly working on its behalf had bugged the Ecuadorian embassy in London, followed Assange’s family and associates, and burgled the office of his lawyer. The US government’s indictment poses a grave threat to press freedom both in the United States and abroad. Much of the conduct it describes is conduct that journalists and publishers engage in on a daily basis. Were his extradition to be allowed it would set a precedent that would effectively criminalise common journalistic practices. The potentially chilling effect on journalists and others who expose official wrongdoing by publishing information disclosed to them by credible sources would have a profound impact on the public’s right to know what our governments are up to. Indeed, at a time when press freedom is under unrelenting assault around the world, the silencing of Julian Assange would be widely felt, impacting journalists either directly or indirectly by instilling the fear of prosecution. By charging someone with espionage who has no non-disclosure obligation, is not a US citizen and is not in America, the US government is behaving as if they have jurisdiction all over the world to pursue any person who receives and publishes information of government wrongdoing. The UK court has found that Julian Assange – who has been held in Belmarsh high security prison in London for more than 18 months – would be at risk of committing suicide if detained in poor conditions at US prisons because of his fragile mental health condition. Today, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard called on US authorities to drop the charges against him and the UK authorities not to extradite him but release him immediately. “It is a damning indictment that nearly 20 years on, virtually no one responsible for alleged US war crimes committed in the course of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars has been held accountable, let alone prosecuted, and yet a publisher who exposed such crimes is potentially facing a lifetime in jail,” she said. “The US government’s unrelenting pursuit of Julian Assange makes it clear that this prosecution is a punitive measure, but the case involves concerns which go far beyond the fate of one man and put media freedom and freedom of expression in peril.” Whistleblowers, publishers and journalists are of vital importance in holding governments to scrutiny and perpetrators of human rights violations to account. The charges against Assange should be urgently dropped and he should be released.

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Assange's Case #FREEJULIANASSANGE
by zeynep＠keemail.me 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Julian Assange spying case: Judge suggests CIA may have received illicitly recorded conversations Proving that US intelligence services learned about the WikiLeaks founder’s defense strategy by spying on his lawyers could annul the extradition request, say legal sources.The conversations between Julian Assange and his lawyers illicitly recorded by the Spanish security company UC Global at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder took refuge for years, could have been delivered to agents of the US secret services, according to Santiago Pedraz, the judge at Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, in charge of the espionage case.Delivery to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or to US authorities of details about the defense strategy of the cyberactivist, whom the US wants to have extradited from the UK, is reflected in a court order issued by Pedraz to which EL PAÍS has had access. In this document, which deals with procedural issues, the judge explains to the British authorities why he needs to take witness testimony from the British lawyers and Assange’s doctors who were spied on at the embassy. These individuals include Gareth Peirce, 82, the famous British lawyer who was played by actress Emma Thompson in the 1993 movie In the Name of the Father.The judge sent a European Investigation Order (EIO) to the British justice more than two years ago, when he requested permission to question Assange in a videoconference from London as a witness in the case against Undercover Global. But British authorities have been reluctant to cooperate, and have asked for additional information on top of documents that were sent months ago without receiving a response. The EIO is a common judicial tool to speed up cooperation between judges and circumvent laborious rogatory letters based on instruments of international law. In this case, however, the British justice has been blocking the investigation. The British lawyers spied on at the embassy by order of UC Global owner David Morales, and whom Pedraz is asking to interrogate, are the same ones who are now defending Assange in the US extradition request that a British judge has just approved. Home Secretary Priti Patel, one of the toughest members of Boris Johnson’s government, has two months to make the final decisionThe US is charging Assange with 18 crimes for revealing classified information about military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on WikiLeaks, and he could face up to 175 years in prison. Since his expulsion in 2019 from the Ecuadorian Embassy, the Australian activist has been held in London’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison

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Suicide is painless
by professor rat 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

It brings on many changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond

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If an appeal is refused, Assange must be extradited within 28 days.
by professor rat 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Maybe his high-powered legal team can spin this out longer? Mr Assange may also seek a judicial review of the Home Secretary's decision. No point in sitting on 20 plus million in cashed-out crypto-profits at this juncture. I, myself might be persuaded to contribute more with the expectation of at least another year in Bel Marsh.

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Re: Assange's Case
by zeynep＠keemail.me 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

CIA and John Young ruined Assange's life.I bet he's having a right old laugh at the moment

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Re: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 108, Issue 63
by Jutta Steiner 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Help

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Assange's Case
by zeynep＠keemail.me 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of Julian #Assange to an American hellhole. A new appeal will now challenge the political rottenness of British 'justice'. Either we raise our voices as never before, or our silence colludes in the death of an heroic man.-- https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1537735215744958465?t=IvxZOTQThl7ut3C…

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VED (Vault Exploit Defense): Open source implementation
by ROOT＠HardenedVault 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Hi guys, VED is a Linux kernel threat detection and prevention system and it's comparatively good to against known and unknown exploit targeting Linux kernel. https://github.com/hardenedvault/ved https://hardenedvault.net/products/ved Have fun! regards R@HardenedVault

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Re: Cevap: British court rules Julian Assange can be extradited to U.S.
by zeynep＠keemail.me 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

I wish I was wrong, but I told here months ago > > > > ------- Original Message ------- > zeynepaydogan <zeynepaydogan(a)protonmail.com> 11 Aralık 2021 Cumartesi saat 00:41 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > > > >> Welcome Jim, >> I told you there was a return order for Assange.I'm afraid I was right. The next process is crucial to Assange.Legally, he'll never be free but if they succeed, Assange will be free. >> This part is hidden in me.I hope I'm right this time >> >> >> Sent with >> ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com/>>> Secure Email. >> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> 11 Aralık 2021 Cumartesi saat 00:25 tarihinde yazdı: >> >> >>> https://news.yahoo.com/british-court-rules-julian-assange-can-be-extradited…>>> A British appeals court has handed the United States a major victory in its efforts to bring WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to trial, overturning a lower cou... >>> >>> >> >>

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Nearly half of Democrat men under 50 approve of assassinating politicians
by professor rat 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

So there's hope for Anglosphere anarchists? I would have thought being outflanked by Lindsay Graham might have sent APster viral! But you roll with the barmy army you've got.

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