Thread by @StefSimanowitz

#Assange turns 50 in jail next month

@Snowden has been "working from home since the Obama admin"

@xychelsea spent 7yrs behind bars

It is ironic that no one responsible for potential war crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan has been punished, yet the people who exposed the crimes, have

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1398267278043537410

2/. “Looking at the mirror is always hard, especially so if such introspection leads to the conclusion that one's ‘democratically’ elected govt regularly engages in terrorism abroad.” #JulianAssange

11 years ago, @wikileaks
published Collateral Murder

3/. #Assange's case matters

It matters to you

The idea that "journalists should be prosecuted for receiving classified information" makes the already perilous situation facing journalists working to expose the crimes & corruption of govts, more difficult

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1302990626263388161

4/. Could this week’s release of #RealityWinner, convicted of leaking a report about Russian interference in the US election in 2016, give some hope to #JulianAssange?

#Assange’s father John Shipton & brother @GabrielShipton interviewed by @TuckerCarlson

5/. “If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers

Perhaps as an old man I’ll accept suffering with insouciance. But not now. Men in their prime, if they have convictions, are tasked to act on them.”

Julian #Assange turns 50
#Assange50

6/. “They're making it all about Julian Assange in order to freeze any journalistic questioning, any journalistic push back or challenge to the secretiveness of the US government". Author @marwilliamson
#FreeAssange #Assange @wikileaks @Snowden @xychelsea

7/. #BREAKING: The High Court has granted the US limited permission to appeal January's ruling blocking Julian #Assange’s extradition

The UK Court’s judged that #JulianAssange should not be extradited because of his health & the condition of US prisons.

8/. Last month, the Icelandic newspaper @stundin reported that a key witness in #Assange case, Sigurdur Thordarson, has admitted to fabricating accusations against the @wikileaks founder & publisher

This story has not received much intn’l media attention.
stundin.is/grein/13627/

9/. “Thordarson is notoriously unreliable, but we don't have to take his word for it. @stundin obtained his chat log history from 2010 & 2011 & found no evidence in all his communications that #Assange knew of what he was doing." @ryangrim on @HillTVLive

10/. US rptdly assures UK #Assange won't be held in a Supermax jail if extradited, & could serve any sentence in Australia

In 2011, @wikileaks published
correspondence from Stratfor

"Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years.”

11/. As the implications of #PegasusProject ripple around the world, Mexico’s President @lopezobrador_ calls for @wikileaks founder #JulianAssange - who first exposed widespread global surveillance operations - to be freed #Pegasus #NSOGroup #pegsus

12/. The US promises not put #Assange in a maximum security facility or subject him to Special Administrative Measures BUT reserves the right to break this promise

"This undermines the intn'l prohibition on torture" @amnesty's @JuliaHall18 tells @SMaurizi
ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/art…

13/. Twenty years after 9/11, in our Western democracies the war criminals & the torturers are free, whereas #JulianAssange is in prison precisely for revealing those crimes

Interview about #Assange in @fattoquotidiano on @JoeBiden #Pegasus & extradition
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…