Thread by @deepa_driver

1/ I’ve served as legal observer in the case of Julian #Assange for @SocialistLawyer for ~ 3 years.
Its been very depressing & tremendously liberating for me.
I knew acts of courage such as Julian's are not without hardship, but I now know #CourageIsContagious
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2/ In these three hard years, Julian's health has suffered.
He had a TIA (mini-stroke) whilst (literally) watching prosecutors in court say he was malingering. He has endured prolonged solitary confinement. He has contemplated taking his own life "hundreds of times a day".

3/ Its worth remembering, that these 3 years, came after ~ 7 years of deprivation of sunlight (he has osteoporosis), no medical care for a broken (abscess) tooth and a badly injured shoulder & deplorable psychological damage from smearing . This created irreversible damage!

4/ His elderly parents, his siblings, his wife, his children & his loved ones have suffered. Max (his little one) has never seen Julian outside Belmarsh.

Julian's colleagues & friends have been harassed & spied on. Yet the fire has only burnished the gold #CourageIsContagious

5/ It is revealing that British judges, some of whom knew of the US spying on Julian's privileged legal conversations & the grave threats to his life, still considered asylum-seeking, a breach of bail.
Judge Snow branded him a "narcissist" on hearing little more than his name.

6/ British judges, with serious conflicts of interest oversaw the case. See linked thread for details of one such judge Lady Emma Arbuthnot (presiding magistrate) and ask yourself what this says about the rule of law in Britain.

https://twitter.com/declassifiedUK/status/1453006224094605312?s=20&t=q2NR0FrdwEpWMN44qabXQQ

7/ Former minister Alan Duncan, revealed in his memoirs, explains how he engineered the deprivation of Assange's Ecuadorian asylum & citizenship.

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0…

8/ It is revealing that British courts - at every level - have turned a blind eye to the fact that the prosecuting state plotted to kidnap #Assange from a sovereign embassy, murder him & engage in a shoot-out in Knightsbridge
uk.news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…

9/ Its also educative that none of the British judges has deigned to address the fact that Assange's privileged legal conversations have been systematically spied upon by the prosecuting state. Attorney-client privilege is fundamental. Yet.....!!

10/ It is also revealing to note how the indictment against Julian was served in its current form, part way through the trial. Without the judge seeming to mind or question how a fair process / outcome could be delivered
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/…

To be continued