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4 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
BREAKING: British judge REFUSES to approve Julian Assange's extradition to the USA because of his severe mental health problems and likely suicide.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that while US prosecutors met the tests for Mr Assange to be extradited for trial, the US is incapable of preventing him from attempting to take his own life - and therefore extradition would be oppressive.
Court reconvening after 1130 to discuss what happens next. US is planning to appeal. Assange's team want him freed on bail.
Key paragraphs of the judgment: judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
(Any appeal must be lodged within two weeks.)

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Dominic Casciani Profile picture
4 Jan
Julian Assange judgment now full swing - some difficulties with the virtual link now resolved. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser at the Old Bailey is giving her decision on the US extradition request. Outlining evidence of his self harm and suicidal thoughts. #AssangeExtradition
DJ Baraitser says half a razor blade was once found in his cell. "The overall impression is of a depressed and sometimes despairing man fearful for his future."
If convicted in the US, Mr Assange could be placed in special supermax prison measures - basically near total solitary confinement with exceptional limits on social interaction with prison guards.
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17 Dec 20
Less than 350 HOURS now from full-flavour Brexit. Here are the facts about how the UK will crash out of a host of security, criminal justice and crime-fighting tools keeping you safe. Police will lose lose many of these even if there is a deal: bbc.co.uk/news/explainer…
The UK will be ejected from the European Arrest Warrant (although it does have its critics); it will have a totally unclear relationship with Europol and its joined-up cross-border organised crime investigations.
SIS 2 - jargon name for a massively important database providing millions of insta-alerts to frontline policing and border security: Criminal on the run in Europe? Possibly in the UK? SIS 2 sends the alert. Home Office has no choice but to unplug the UK's connection.
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11 Nov 20
There is a livestream of the undercover policing inquiry here - but it is virtually unusable for reporters trying to follow it remotely. The words are appearing via a fast scrolling video feed that can't be paused or rewound: ucpi.org.uk/hearing/eviden…
1) I can't type that fast to copy down everything. If I could hear the audio - which we are not allowed to do - I could take down quotes in shorthand.
2) We cannot scroll back to check quotes. 20 years ago at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, we could do that.
3) If I were to screen-shot key quotes (to transcribe for a report) I would then miss the next five minutes. And given I can't hear the evidence, I can't say whether we would miss something important.
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31 Jul 20
Court of Appeal to report The Sun for potential Contempt of Court, after an apparent leak of the judgment in the Shamima Begum case.
Whitehall investigation continuing into who in government saw or knew of the result, which went against the Home Secretary.
The judgment, a fortnight ago from the Court of Appeal, ruled that Ms Begum should be allowed to return London from a Syrian refugee camp to fight for the return of her citizenship. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-534271…
The Sun got a leak of the judgment before it was handed down in court - their story suggested it came from government sources. The head of the Government Legal Department, Treasury Solicitor @PermSecGLD has been investigating who knew what and when in the Home Office or elsewhere
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27 Jul 20
... And today's utterly bizarre story from the world of semi-secret court hearings is....

Two MI6 officers accused of interfering with an independent tribunal by telephoning its secretary to say that she mustn't let one of the UK's top judges see top secret documents...
... the incident happened in March last year and has only been disclosed today at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. That's the semi-secret body that hears and rules on complaints against intelligence agencies. This is what happened:
The IPT was preparing evidence, mostly secret documents, in a big case about whether spying agencies can authorise their informants to commit crimes. (I didn't say this was simple).
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14 Jun 20
Some mop-up thoughts from yesterday's violence in London and answers to a few Qs in my timeline. I have ignored the ones from those who can't edit out the f word or other abuse from their comments. Thread:
1) Some people say there were Nazi salutes & we have not reported these. I didn't see Nazi salutes. I saw football lads raising their arms while chanting, in a way that it commonly scene at footy matches. If that is what people are referring to, they're not Nazi salutes.
2) Some people say we're tarnishing the name of football supporters. Well, speaking as a born and bred supporter of the once and soon to be mighty again Nottingham Forest, I don't think so. But a football-firm linked outfit, the DFLA were key organisers yesterday.
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