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Açık Pzt, Ara 13, 2021 20:29, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> yazdı:

> Julian Assange Suffered A Stroke Due To US Extradition Battle, Fiancée Says
>
> https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/12/would-assanges-stroke-have-mattered-to-the-high-court/
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10300037/Julian-Assange-stroke-Belmarsh-prison-Fianc-e-blames-extreme-stress.html
> https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/10/assange-loses-high-court-allows-us-appeal-sends-assange-case-back-to-lower-court/
> https://www.tareqhaddad.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021.10.19-%E2%80%93-Assange-Extradition-Hearings-Appeal-%E2%80%93-Sixth_Supplemental_Extradition_Declaration_19_Oct.pdf
> https://bridgesforfreedom.media/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/01.-Statement-of-Yancey-Ellis-Final-Paginated.pdf
> https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lauri-love-v-usa.pdf
> https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/28/day-two-assange-lawyer-presses-parallels-with-love-case/
> https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1470152104933310477
> https://twitter.com/Doctors4Assange/status/1470079942851448838
>
> News on Sunday that imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
> suffered a stroke on Oct. 27 has raised the question of when the High
> Court knew about it and whether it would have influenced its ruling to
> overturn a lower court judgment, allowing his extradition to the
> United States.
>
> Stella Moris, Assange’s financée and one of his lawyers, told the Mail
> on Sunday that doctors determined that the mini-stroke has left
> Assange with "a drooping right eyelid, memory problems and signs of
> neurological damage."
> Getty Images
>
> The Mail reported:
>
> "A 'transient ischaemic attack' – the interruption of the blood
> supply to the brain – can be a warning sign of a full stroke. Assange
> has since had an MRI scan and is now taking anti-stroke medication.
>
> Ms Moris, 38, a lawyer, said: 'Julian is struggling and I fear
> this mini-stroke could be the precursor to a more major attack. It
> compounds our fears about his ability to survive the longer this long
> legal battle goes on.'"
>
> Moris told the paper: "It urgently needs to be resolved. Look at
> animals trapped in cages in a zoo. It cuts their life short. That’s
> what’s happening to Julian. The never-ending court cases are extremely
> stressful mentally."
>
> She added:
>
> "'I believe this constant chess game, battle after battle, the
> extreme stress, is what caused Julian’s stroke on October 27.
>
> He was feeling really unwell, far too ill to follow the hearing,
> and he was excused by the judge but could not leave the prison video
> room.
>
> 'It must have been horrendous hearing a High Court appeal in which
> you can’t participate, which is discussing your mental health and your
> risk of suicide and in which the US is arguing you are making it all
> up.
>
> 'He had to sit through all this when he should have been excused.
> He was in a truly terrible state. His eyes were out of synch, his
> right eyelid would not close, his memory was blurry.'
>
> When Did High Court Know?
>
> It is not clear when the High Court judges learned of this dangerous
> deterioration of the WikiLeaks founders’ health. His lawyers likely
> made submissions to the court in the weeks after the hearing, leading
> up to Friday’s ruling.
>
> In that ruling, the judges accepted lower court Judge Vanessa
> Baraitser’s determination that Assange was too ill to be extradited.
> The court rejected three of the US grounds of appeal, which challenged
> the medical evidence. Confirmation of the stroke exposes the US
> contention that Assange is a "malingerer" as a lie. But the High
> Court did not accept that smear.
>
> The court also did not challenge the second pillar of Baraitser’s
> judgment against extradition: that prison conditions in the US were
> too harsh and would lead to Assange’s suicide. The entire reason for
> overturning Baraitser and allowing the extradition was the High
> Court’s belief that the US is sincere in promising not to put Assange
> into the worst of U.S. penal isolation: Special Administrative
> Measures (SAMs) or into ADX Florence maximum security prison in
> Colorado.
>
> Julian Assange's fiancee accuses UK authorities of playing
> 'executioner' after Wikileaks founder suffered stroke
> https://t.co/2PsqtMR9o1
> — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) December 12, 2021
>
> The court also bought the line that US prison authorities would
> provide adequate health care for Assange. [A defense witness
> testified, however, that there are no permanent doctors at the
> Alexandria Detention Center where Assange would be held pre-trial.]
>
> So would knowing that he had suffered a stroke have altered the High
> Court’s thinking, even though it had already accepted Assange’s
> medical diagnosis? Would adding knowledge of the stroke have changed
> anything?
>
> Burnett’s Remark
>
> Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett was on the High Court in the Assange
> case as well as in 2018 when the court overturned the extradition
> order of hacktivist Lauri Love. Love was accused by the US of hacking
> into US government computers. Like Assange, Love suffered from
> depression and Asperger Syndrome; and like Assange he was deemed by
> the High Court to be at high risk of suicide if extradited. However
> the court ruled against extraditing Love, and for extraditing Assange.
> Why?
>
> The High Court found that Love also suffered from a physical ailment,
> namely eczema, that would be exacerbated with extradition. The Burnett
> ruling overturning Love’s extradition said:
>
> "All the evidence is that this would be very harmful for his
> difficult mental conditions, Asperger Syndrome and depression, linked
> as they are; and for his physical conditions, notable eczema, which
> would be exacerbated by stress. That in turn would add to his
> worsening mental condition, which in its turn would worsen his
> physical conditions. There is no satisfactory and sufficiently
> specific evidence that treatment for this combination of severe
> problems would be available in the sort of prisons to which he would
> most likely be sent."
>
> [Noteworthy is that Burnett in this judgement said there is "no
> satisfactory and sufficiently specific evidence that treatment for
> this combination of severe problems would be available in the sort of
> prisons to which [Love] would most likely be sent." Yet in the Assange
> case Burnett accepted the U.S. assurance that there would be such
> treatment available for Assange. Burnett also accepted, however, the
> U.S. assurance that Assange would not be sent to that “sort of
> prison.”]
>
> James Lewis QC, the prosecutor for the US, argued, ironically on the
> day of the stroke, that the Love case was not a precedent for Assange
> because Love had suffered from physical ailments, where Assange had
> not. Lewis said the purely psychological test from the Turner v.
> Government of the USA case was applied in Assange’s case, but not in
> Love’s.
>
> On the following day, Assange lawyer Edward Fitzgerald QC, made a
> strong argument that the Love case was indeed a precedent for Assange.
> He pointed out that both Love and Assange were diagnosed with
> depression and Asperger Syndrome, which increases a risk of suicide.
> Fitzgerald said the High Court in Love had looked into the future to
> see that extradition to the U.S. would be oppressive because of the
> high risk of suicide.
>
> BREAKING: Statement on Assange's deteriorating
> health:https://t.co/nLkRxV3wkZ
>
> "This latest medical emergency adds to the already dire state of
> Mr. Assange’s health owing to his prolonged psychological torture."
>
> The torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange must end now.
> — Doctors for Assange (@Doctors4Assange) December 12, 2021
>
> At that point Burnett interrupted Fitzgerald from the bench. “It is a
> completely different case,” he said. According to former SBS
> Australian news presenter Mary Kostakidis, who viewed the appeal
> hearing via a video-link, Burnett said Love was different because he
> had a physical ailment, namely eczema. Burnett did not show up for the
> reading of the summary judgment on Friday at the High Court.
>
> A Very Serious Physical Ailment
>
> If indeed a physical ailment is the main legal matter separating Love
> from Assange then that would seem to change with the news that Assange
> had a stroke. The High Court may have considered that new evidence,
> though, because there are no physical ailments mentioned in
> Baraitser’s decision on Assange that was before the High Court.
>
> In the end it probably would not have mattered. The High Court ruling
> accepted all of the medical evidence about Assange’s psychological
> condition and still ruled he should be extradited. That probably would
> not have changed had a stroke been added to his medical status before
> the ruling.
>
> That is because despite accepting the medical evidence, the High Court
> ruled for extradition solely on the basis of the US assurances that
> Assange would not be put into SAMs and that he would receive adequate
> medical treatment, presumably for a stroke too.
>
> There is another difference between Love and Assange. Love was
> expendable to the United States. Assange is not. He is Too Big to
> Free. By reporting the truth, Assange has threatened the legitimacy of
> an entire system built on lies. The British judiciary is part of that
> system. It is very unlikely that knowledge of the stroke would have
> made any difference to the High Court.
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