U.S. wins appeal to extradite Julian Assange

By artappraiser on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 9:29am |

BREAKING: London's High Court has overturned a British judge's decision to block the extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S., dealing a major blow to the Wikileaks founder in his decade-long fight to avoid prosecution by the U.S. government. https://t.co/4VV20L48fM
— Axios (@axios) December 10, 2021

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https://www.axios.com/julian-assange-extradition-uk-69afdb86-0d1d-489a-9e01-4282d9b4fe5c.html

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What? Even after Pam and Jez intervened? https://t.co/KHe20cgb7a
— James Crisp (@JamesCrisp6) December 10, 2021

The UK's home secretary Priti Patel, who oversees law enforcement, will make the final decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the US. https://t.co/41hBrSPM8t
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 9:34am

Interestingly, Justin Amash goes with libertarian principles on this:

What the U.S. government is doing to Julian Assange puts all journalists at risk and undermines press freedom. He faces prosecution for journalism—for publishing materials exposing war crimes and other horrors in Afghanistan and Iraq. Uphold the 1st Amendment. Free or pardon him.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) December 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 1:19pm

Corbyn's opinion, no surprise here:

Julian Assange should not be extradited for revealing uncomfortable truths. https://t.co/PHKpuf8SF1
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 1:21pm

Australia's former Prime Minister, Labor Party, on Guardian article describing current Australian parliamentarians advocating current PM do something:

I fundamentally disagree with this prosecution. Bottom line: if Assange’s crime was disseminating classified national security documents, then the same would apply to the editors of every British, American & Australian newspaper that published the material.https://t.co/IKy7TigS9k
— Kevin Rudd (@MrKRudd) December 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 1:31pm

Edward Snowden Edward Snowden Edward Snowden. What does the Edward Snowden have to do with Julian Assange charges? When specifically did the US decide to charge Assange. What does Joshua Schulte and CIA Vault 7 & 8 hacking tools have to do with this? What did Assange ask aspiring Wikileakers to do? What did Julian Assange's marriage and newborn child have to do with the original rejection of the US extradition request?

You can wade into some fairly lengthy answers here:

https://www.emptywheel.net/wikileaks/

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 1:39pm

Taibbi & Greenwald; Snowden thread; succinct anti-Assange retort; former FBI Asst. Director Figliuzzi; Biden will not comment at Democracy summit presser-

I get that they hate Assange, but I’m still amazed by how few mainstream journalists understand that this case also impacts them personally. https://t.co/mlXPkUbqhg
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 11, 2021

"Fine, whatever — I just don't like the bastard," admits another, "Assange deserves to suffer."

The arbitrary punishment of those unlike you for the crime of being unlike you is the very heart of the fascism you claim to oppose.

Free societies are founded on tolerance.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 10, 2021

Julian Assange was just a journalist in the same way January 6th was just a protest…
— Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) December 12, 2021

He knows things about the 2016 election - Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder faces extradition as US wins appeal https://t.co/XBjeFmSgEi
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) December 10, 2021

At democracy summit, reporter asks about Assange extradition case, Biden turns his head and walks away pic.twitter.com/7LnRsmnald
— (@taizioko) December 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 1:40pm

I should mention that I see there are reports of Assange suffering a "mini-stroke" right before the recent appearance in court, coming from his girlfriend (some call her his fiancee, I have not kept up with that) and his doctor, but since they are all from tabloid papers, and since Assange has used so many imaginable delay tactics, I will mention but I am not going to post those until there is a more verifiable source.

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 1:48pm

Mother of his 2 kids? 5 year partner?

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 2:07pm

For a third year, the Committee to Protect Journalists excludes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from their annual jailed journalist index https://t.co/xNGaXkt2UI
— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) December 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/21/2021 - 4:46pm

U.S. wins appeal to extradite Julian Assange

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