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Daokta's Likes. WikiLeaks (wikileaks) auf Twitter... CCR Files Petition to Military Court to Demand Wikileaks Lawyers Be Guaranteed Access to Bradley Manning’s Proceedings. Court to Consider Motion this Afternoon press@ccrjustice.org New York, December 16, 2011— The Center for Constitutional Rights, representing Julian Assange, publisher of the WikiLeaks media organization, filed a petition this morning seeking guaranteed access by Assange and Wikileaks’ counsel to the proceedings against Private Bradley Manning at Ft.
Meade. The court received the petition and indicated it will hear and decide on the motion this afternoon. CCR cooperating counsel Amy Jacobsen and one of Assange’s Australian attorneys, Jennifer Robinson, will be heard on the motion. Said Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy, “As counsel for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, we must be given access to these proceedings. Private Manning has suffered serious human rights violations in detention, including prolonged isolation and sensory deprivation, and other torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment reminiscent of the worst abuses at Guantánamo Bay. Mr. News. Science Translational Medicine.
Controversial Killer Flu Research Paused | Wired Science. Researchers developing extra-contagious strains of H5N1 avian influenza have agreed to pause their work for 60 days. The moratorium, announced Jan. 20 in Nature and Science, is a response to public fear and alarm in the scientific community, which has split over whether the research could inadvertently lead to release of a nightmare disease. Depending on perspective, the moratorium is either a genuine recognition of the need for broader discussion or a public relations gesture. Either way, it’s a chance for everyone to catch their breath without reaching for a mask.
Fear that the viruses “may escape from the laboratories has generated intense public debate in the media on the benefits and potential harm of this type of research,” the researchers wrote in an open letter declaring the moratorium. In humans, H5N1 is extraordinarily virulent — mortality runs between 60 and 80 percent — but far less contagious, requiring prolonged contact with infected birds or people.