"A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and soon extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years"
republik.ch/2020/01/31/nil…
republik.ch/2020/01/31/nil…
"Suddenly, someone shines a light on the elephant in the room – on war criminals, on corruption.... The governments are briefly in shock, but then they turn the spotlight around with accusations of rape. It is a classic maneuver when it comes to manipulating public opinion."
"Just imagine being accused of rape for nine-and-a-half years by an entire state apparatus and by the media without ever being given the chance to defend yourself because no charges had ever been filed."
"Melzer had previously admitted to having been so misled by media portrayals of Assange that he was initially reluctant to investigate Assange’s case"
consortiumnews.com/2020/02/06/ray…
consortiumnews.com/2020/02/06/ray…
"In the end it finally dawned on me that I had been blinded by propaganda, and that Assange had been systematically slandered to divert attention from the crimes he exposed. Once he had been dehumanized through isolation, ridicule and shame.. "
medium.com/@njmelzer/dema…
medium.com/@njmelzer/dema…
Thread 👇🏻
"US launched a campaign to smear his reputation and deny the validity of his story. The US military was intent on preventing people from knowing the long term effects of nuclear radiation
Burchett’s report from Hiroshima was broadcast worldwide"
"US launched a campaign to smear his reputation and deny the validity of his story. The US military was intent on preventing people from knowing the long term effects of nuclear radiation
Burchett’s report from Hiroshima was broadcast worldwide"
https://mobile.twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1226110990909149187
Perhaps because, in so doing, he has exposed the job they have not been doing?
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomLondon6/status/1226511769738391553
"Power is the ability to control what happens. Absolute power is controlling what people think about what happens..
.. when journalists use their power and privilege to cover up and divert attention from war crimes, they become war criminals themselves."
.. when journalists use their power and privilege to cover up and divert attention from war crimes, they become war criminals themselves."
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1231148255842590720
"Woolwich Crown Court is nothing but the physical negation of the presumption of innocence.. It has precisely the same relationship to administration of justice as Guantanamo Bay or the Lubyanka. It is in truth just the sentencing wing of Belmarsh prison"
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…
"There was.. a media room with live transmission from the courtroom.. [but] I followed the arguments very clearly every minute of the day, and not a single one of the most important facts and arguments today has been reported anywhere in the mainstream media"
via @CraigMurrayOrg
via @CraigMurrayOrg
@CraigMurrayOrg "The mere act of being an honest witness is suddenly extremely important, when the entire media has abandoned that role." 
@CraigMurrayOrg Live Thread of Day 2 👇🏻
Note the Prosecution upset at availability of publicly available transcripts of proceedings, while continuing to avoid using the microphone that would otherwise relay their words to the media annexe..
Note the Prosecution upset at availability of publicly available transcripts of proceedings, while continuing to avoid using the microphone that would otherwise relay their words to the media annexe..
https://mobile.twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1232250011209097216
@CraigMurrayOrg As @CraigMurrayOrg pointed out yesterday the Prosecutor had to abandon and totally contradict his morning press release. Potentially a key moment, with wide ramifications for journalists. Yet this was not picked up by media, who seemed to be dependent on a govt 'press-release'..
@CraigMurrayOrg International human rights lawyer, Jen Robinson, summarises the day in court
https://mobile.twitter.com/DEAcampaign/status/1232020434281009152
@CraigMurrayOrg Every action, no matter how small, even if only sharing protest through media, is at least something..
https://mobile.twitter.com/SMaurizi/status/1129702123963392002
@CraigMurrayOrg Live Thread of Day 3 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
https://mobile.twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1232603895488225281
@CraigMurrayOrg This was Thread for Day 1 👇🏻
https://mobile.twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1231889705496666113
@CraigMurrayOrg "Assange made disclosures about the activities of the US government more significant than the revelations in the Pentagon Papers. That is why he has been pursued to this day and his punishment so much more severe than anything inflicted on Daniel Ellsberg"
independent.co.uk/voices/julian-…
independent.co.uk/voices/julian-…
@CraigMurrayOrg "Have you ever noticed how whenever someone inconveniences the dominant western power structure, the entire political/media class rapidly becomes very, very interested in letting us know how evil and disgusting that person is?"..
https://mobile.twitter.com/caitoz/status/1232655108741066753
@CraigMurrayOrg "For 7 years, from the moment Julian Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong.. paranoid conspiracy theorists.. no real threat of Assange’s extradition to the US.. all in our fevered imaginations"
jonathan-cook.net/blog/2019-04-1…
jonathan-cook.net/blog/2019-04-1…
@CraigMurrayOrg Live Thread Day 4 👇🏻
@CraigMurrayOrg Summary of (previous) day 3, via @CraigMurrayOrg
https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1232962237654011908
@CraigMurrayOrg Day 4 summary from @CraigMurrayOrg
"interruptions.. to show the judge attempting to clarify the defence’s argument in a spirit of intellectual testing. But if you heard the tone of Baraitser’s voice, saw her body language and facial expressions.. "
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…
"interruptions.. to show the judge attempting to clarify the defence’s argument in a spirit of intellectual testing. But if you heard the tone of Baraitser’s voice, saw her body language and facial expressions.. "
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…
@CraigMurrayOrg [Prosecution's] "case that the provisions of the very treaty under which the extradition is being made, do not in fact apply...
Baraitser’s comparative harassment of Fitzgerald when he had the prosecution on the ropes was straight out of the Stalin show trial playbook."
Baraitser’s comparative harassment of Fitzgerald when he had the prosecution on the ropes was straight out of the Stalin show trial playbook."
@CraigMurrayOrg Not a peep from any of them, or if there was, nobody could hear..
https://mobile.twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/1212659209734643712
@CraigMurrayOrg "It’s the Free Assange crowd vs the “Thinking about that will cause me cognitive dissonance” crowd
Should journalists be punished for exposing war crimes? Make people answer this question when they are smearing him. Demand they address this central issue."
medium.com/@caityjohnston…
Should journalists be punished for exposing war crimes? Make people answer this question when they are smearing him. Demand they address this central issue."
medium.com/@caityjohnston…
@CraigMurrayOrg "The prosecution’s argument for extradition has largely amounted to “This case has nothing to do with a journalist exposing war crimes. This case is about whether Assange broke the rules that we made to prevent journalists from exposing our war crimes.”"
@CraigMurrayOrg "Arguing the US should not only be able to hide war crimes by falsely classifying the evidence, but also they should be able to punish the people who exposed them, is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer was not only right to murder but that the police who went after him should go to jail"
@CraigMurrayOrg ➡️"The brave dissenters who had protested against the hiding of the truth ... attacked by a slippery operation known as Bellingcat, which far too many journalists and politicians treat with wide-eyed indulgence, as if it was a brave independent enterprise"
mol.im/a/8060973
mol.im/a/8060973
@CraigMurrayOrg Thread pls RT 👇🏻
https://mobile.twitter.com/Satiresocialist/status/1233820215068254208
@CraigMurrayOrg "The prosecution must accept the US-UK treaty has to be applied as a whole [including] the provision barring extradition because of the political nature of a defendant’s activities. Otherwise the treaty is irrelevant and the case can no longer proceed"
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
@SMaurizi Investigatory journalist (extinct in UK?)
"Britain likes to cultivate the image of a country which plays by the rules, but.. the UK authorities are treating a journalist who revealed war crimes and torture as if he were a dangerous criminal"
"Britain likes to cultivate the image of a country which plays by the rules, but.. the UK authorities are treating a journalist who revealed war crimes and torture as if he were a dangerous criminal"
https://mobile.twitter.com/SMaurizi/status/1234495965702295552
"Arbuthnot refused the request. Her ruling was irregular, dismissing Assange’s fears of US extradition and the findings of the UN."
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0…
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0…
Indeed, it's quite an indictment of 'mainstream' 'journalism'. A good interview without those annoying (msm) interruptions to shout the guest down..
https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1236114244212609024
"case of Belousov vs Russia the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg ruled against the state of Russia because Belousov had been tried in a glass cage practically identical in construction and in position in court to that in which Assange now was."
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…
"Hannibal Lecter style confinement of Assange, this intellectual computer geek, which has no rational basis at all, is a deliberate attempt to drive Julian to suicide. The maximum security anti-terrorist court is physically within the fortress compound.. maximum security prison."
What a shining example we set for the world's nations..
https://mobile.twitter.com/Okavangomick/status/1236392061269614594
Mainstream journalists find it hard to do research these days seemingly relying on 'trusted sources' Julian and others have shown mostly untrustworthy and establishment sourced.
A small act to curate this info thread. If everyone RT'd thread journalists would have the info handy.
A small act to curate this info thread. If everyone RT'd thread journalists would have the info handy.
"As far as successive governments during the long 18th century were concerned, whether or not a publication was classed as seditious had as much to do with its medium as its message, with its accessibility to a wide readership.."
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/…
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/…
We like to think we have progressed so much in the last 300yrs..
"It is not standard, nor remotely normal, for journalists with no criminal history, no custodial sentence, and no history or risk of violence to be detained under the harshest and most punitive conditions that UK law enforcement has to offer."
newmatilda.com/2020/03/12/ass…
newmatilda.com/2020/03/12/ass…
In case you didn't know already, Keir Starmer was head of the CPI during a key period of this supposed 'due process'
@SMaurizi is the investigatory journalist on the trail..
@SMaurizi is the investigatory journalist on the trail..
https://mobile.twitter.com/Consortiumnews/status/1251325036197105664
"For 7 years, we have had to listen to a chorus of journalists, politicians and “experts” telling us Assange was..a fugitive from justice, and that the British and Swedish legal systems could be relied on to handle his case in full accordance with the law"
jonathan-cook.net/blog/2019-04-1…
jonathan-cook.net/blog/2019-04-1…
“You work for the British government,” her interrogator said, with a sneer.
“No,” Gun replied, steadily. “I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.”
theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/…
“No,” Gun replied, steadily. “I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.”
theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/…
'Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?'
The Silence of these organisations for Human Rights
".. the cage represented a breach of the right to a presumption of innocence, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the two were subjected to “inhuman and degrading conditions in the courtroom.”
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/bri…
".. the cage represented a breach of the right to a presumption of innocence, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the two were subjected to “inhuman and degrading conditions in the courtroom.”
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/bri…
"A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and soon extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years"
republik.ch/2020/01/31/nil…
republik.ch/2020/01/31/nil…
Via @SMaurizi
#Assange #WikiLeaks #FreeAssange #StateSecrets #WarCrimes #journalism
ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/art…
#Assange #WikiLeaks #FreeAssange #StateSecrets #WarCrimes #journalism
ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/art…
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