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31 Dec 20, 12 tweets, 11 min read
Lots of journalists are currently writing stories ahead of the court's decision on Monday about Julian's US extradition.

What backgrounders (articles or videos) about #Assangecase would you recommend they read?

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This is an excellent 'What's the big picture?' summary by @ggreenwald with @suigenerisjen and @Sulliview

This is also very informative with @bartongellman @rebecca_vincent @ewenmacaskill

nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opi…
Videos by @ORF about Julian #Assange and WikiLeaks case are a treasure trove for quotable references for journos writing articles. For example:

Defense Secretary, Bob Gates, on Wikileaks Afghan and Iraq war publications.

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The @nytimes in January 2011 cites further statements by officials in its lede originally titled 'WikiLeaks: No Harm, No Foul' later re-titled: 'US Officials Reportedly said WikiLeaks Revelations Were 'Not Damaging'

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thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/u-s… ImageImageImageImage
Expert Grothoff told US counsel: "On the very specific technical point where you say Wikileaks published those cables you are wrong, and you didn’t properly do your homework to find who first published those cables."

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pressgazette.co.uk/wikileaks-not-…
'Audio shows Assange asked State Dept to help contain damage from 2011 leak'

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itwire.com/strategy/audio…
NEW: Transcript of 75-minute call between #Assange and US State Department warning of impending third-party dump of all US State Dep cables, and proposed steps to contain or prevent it, 26 August 2011.

H/t @DefenseAssange
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assangedefense.org/2021/01/01/ass…
International Federation of Journalists (@IFJGlobal):

Free Julian #Assange and the 234 other journalists in prison

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#pardonAssange

ifj.org/media-centre/n…
Fmr Australian Foreign Minister @bobjcarr:

#Assangecase boils down to "fact that #Assange exposed war crimes in Iraq"

"If America gets away with plucking him out of the UK... to die in prison, then all our freedoms are compromised."
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20 Dec 20
Julian helped jail pedophiles in Australia in the 1990s. He also helped Icelandic police convict Sigurdur Thordarson on multiple counts of child abuse. One of Thordarson's child victims committed suicide. (Thread)

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Thordarson went on his child abuse crime spree while working as an informant for the US government. At his trial, he was diagnosed as a psychopath by the court-appointed psychiatrist. He was also convicted of forgery and fraud against numerous businesses and @wikileaks.
After Thordarson was released from prison in Iceland, the US government flew him to Washington DC again, where he became the "star witness" against #Assange. The US government gets someone who will say and do anything. Thordarson takes revenge on the man who put him in prison.
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19 Dec 20
Need inspiration for Christmas presents?

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When Google Met WikiLeaks

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2 Nov 20
Spoke to Julian. A friend of his killed himself in the early hours of this morning. His body is still in the cell on Julian's wing. Julian is devastated.

Manoel Santos was gay. He'd lived in UK for 20 years. The Home Office served him with a deportation notice to Brazil.(Thread)
Julian wants to express his condolences to Manoel's friends and family.

Julian tells me Manoel was an excellent tenor. He helped Julian read letters in Portuguese, and he was a friend.

He feared deportation to Brazil after 20 years, being gay put him at risk where he was from.
Julian hopes there will be an investigation into the deportation decision at @ukhomeoffice. Manoel was at high risk. His suicide was foreseeable. An inquiry into his case might prevent future suicides.
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28 Jul 20
I spoke to Julian today. At any moment we expect that the US will drop its existing extradition request and then re-arrest him on the very same 18 charges, under a different extradition request.

We don't know if this means he'll be brought to court to be 're-arrested'. (Thread)
The DoJ had been given a deadline by Westminster Magistrates Court to finalise any further extradition requests by 14 June 2019.

That makes the latest superseding indictment 14 months late.

It was publicised on the DoJ website on 24 June 2020, over a month ago.
5 weeks have passed since the DoJ publicised its indictment (with no new charges) but the US has so far made no attempt to incorporate it into the UK jurisdiction.

Hence lawyers have been working on arguments & evidence in relation to an effectively defunct extradition request.
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