Even more people than yesterday demonstrate at Royal Courts of Justice, ready to march on Downing Street against plan to extradite Wikileaks founder for exposing US war crimes
The number of people protesting at the Royal Courts of Justice against the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has swelled beyond the approximately two thousand who turned out yesterday, despite foul weather:
The US government’s extradition case against Assange should have been laughed out of court when its main witness admitted he had been lying all along, but the courts and UK government have persisted in shoring up what constitutes a global assault on journalism, democracy and the right of peoples to hold their governments to account.
Protesters are now marching to Downing Street, led by PCS public service union’s Samba band.
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May he today be given a Full Appeal hearing and may his declining health endure to make it.
If you pray, please pray for this. We owe him.
Amen to that! Anyone know what time the judge’s verdict is announced?
timfrom – As is often the case with court procedures we are going to have to wait a while for their judgement. Unfortunately it is all part of the pantomime.
“Judges say WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won’t find out until next month at the earliest whether can appeal extradition to the U.S. on spying charges”
Here’s the link if you want to read the full article
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lawyers-us-british-court-wikileaks-julian-assange-face-107403280
We’ve known for a long time that our politicians are bought and paid for by US Imperialism.
Let’s hope that the courts are not the same.
johnsci1 – I fear that your hopes, although admirable; may be in vain.
Ooops –
johnsci1johnsco1THE LAST DAYS OF JULIAN ASSANGE IN BRITAIN
The WikiLeaks publisher’s long and winding road through England’s legal system could soon be up. What he faces next is terrifying.
“One day in an American prison is like a year in a high-security prison in Britain. You could do a year in Belmarsh and it wouldn’t match a day in one of those places.”
Babar Ahmad is someone who knows. He was extradited to the US in 2012 on charges of providing material support to terrorism because of two articles published on his website offering support to the Taliban government in Afghanistan. He spent eight years fighting the extradition.
“I feel sorry for anyone going there because I’ve been through it,”
Read the full article here
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-last-days-of-julian-assange-in-britain/
it’s worth the effort