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Justice for Assange. Julian Assange – hero or traitor? Expats give their opinions. Britain arrests WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. WikiLeaks founder Assange granted bail. A London court has granted bail to the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, but ordered that he remain in detention for the next two days pending Sweden’s appeal. Assange is also facing Sweden’s attempts to extradite him on charges of sexual assault, which many of his supporters call false. Originally, when the case came before a prosecutor in Sweden, she threw it out. It was subsequently picked up by another prosecutor, who decided to take the case into court. Assange’s supporters believe the charges against him are trumped up. They are believed to be linked to WikiLeaks’ release of US embassy cables, which is embarrassing for the US government and for other governments around the world. It is expected that Assange, should he finally be extradited to Sweden, will then be almost immediately requested to appear in court in the US.

“Under the European arrest warrant, the court has almost no powers to prevent extradition,” Batten said. Assange a hot potato for Swedish government - journalist. Assange makes last-ditch attempt to remain in UK. Judges play language game to extradite Assange. Published time: May 30, 2012 11:20 Edited time: May 30, 2012 16:47 Protesters supporting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hold placards outside the Supreme Court in London ( REUTERS/Ki Price) The decision to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has caused outcry, with critics saying it is based on dubious legal credentials.

In the ruling EU law overrides UK jurisdiction, the final judgment dictated by the meaning of a French word. The ruling has been dubbed as “extraordinary” by Gerard Batten of the UK Independence Party. He said that the judgment overruled a “centuries-old principle of English law” that states that “you cannot be a judge in your own case.” According to UK legislation, the extradition order placed against Assange was invalid because the Swedish prosecutor who issued it acted beyond his jurisdiction.

“Although our own parliament and our own government minister believe a judicial authority means a proper court or a proper judge. Assange wants guarantee he won’t be sent to the US. Assange may face death, Manning kept in solitary. Swedish FM vs WikiLeaks: Revenge is tweet. ‘Swedish prosecutors determined to convict Assange… of something’ Assange ordered to UK police station: First step in extradition process. WikiLeaks' Assange released on bail. Assange is safer in the UK than in Sweden - expert.

Published time: February 08, 2011 10:32 Edited time: February 09, 2011 12:44 Dr Brian Palmer, a social anthropologist from Uppsala University, believes that Julian Assange is safer in the UK than in Sweden. RT has asked him about why Sweden wants the WikiLeaks founder so badly and his fate if he were to be extradited. ­ RT: Sweden has been in the spotlight quite a bit lately with the WikiLeaks scandal, spy and sex probes involving Assange. Why does Sweden want Julian Assange to be extradited? Brian Palmer: It is hard to say. RT: Do you think that eventually Julian Assange will in fact be extradited to Sweden.

BP: It wouldn’t surprise me if he is in the end. RT: Many critics say if Assange is extradited to Sweden it will be very easy for the US to get him into custody. BP: I think that it is quite right- it will be easier to get him to the US from Sweden than from Britain. RT: Why do you think that Sweden took those kinds of policy moves? Stratforgate: WikiLeaks releases ‘shadow CIA’ mail. Assange guests grilled: Is FBI collecting ‘evidence’ for indictment? FBI agents (AFP Photo/Emmanuel Dunand) (28.1Mb) embed video Will Julian Assange’s show make the Guinness Book of Records? Quite likely, especially if you think of all the people interrogated over their ties with the whistleblower before or after they talked to the WikiLeaks founder. ­“ ” sources close to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange told RT.

The Cypherpunks episode of The Julian Assange Show has not even premiered on RT, but a pot of trouble is already boiling and Jeremie Zimmermann, a co-founder of cyber freedoms group La Quadrature du Net, has got a taste of it. Jeremie Zimmermann was detained on his way from the US to France after filming the episode of Assange’s show, during which he was interviewed with two other Cypherpunks movement activists. Zimmerman was grabbed by “ ,” reports the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website. . “ ” reads the WikiLeaks Tweet. At the moment McCarthy’s whereabouts are unknown, though he maintains communication with the Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir. As Assange awaits asylum answer, US demands separate extradition from Sweden. Trial and errors – Assange in court again. ‘Not for Pub’: US drew up secret Assange charges – Stratfor leak. 'US escalating intimidation of whistleblowers’

Assange may be victim of CIA smear tactics. Political witch-hunt behind sexual assault charges - claims Assange. Assange will be extradited to Sweden. Australia calls WikiLeaks ‘irresponsible,’ delays Assange-related cables publication. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a news conference in London, February 27, 2012 (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly) The Australian government has blamed WikiLeaks for a “reckless, irresponsible and potentially dangerous” disclosures of secret information. It is also delaying the release of diplomatic cables on the matter after the US expressed concern. Last week Anna Harmer, an official of Australia’s Attorney General wrote to a legislator that “debate about the WikiLeaks matter is not about censoring free speech or preventing the media from reporting news,” The Sydney Morning Herald reports. She also confirmed the government’s focus on WikiLeaks’ “reckless” and “unauthorized” disclosure of classified material.

In the meantime, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has delayed the release of sensitive diplomatic cables related to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks until Assange’s extradition from the UK to Sweden has been finalized. Assange asks for political asylum in Ecuador. Assange blasts the New York Times. Published time: April 13, 2011 20:05 Edited time: April 14, 2011 11:56 UK, London : WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attends a debate on the subject of whistle-blowing with prominent public figures on secrecy and transparency issues at Kensington Town hall in central London on April 9, 2011. (AFP Photo / Carl Court) Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spoke out against the New York Times this week, critiquing the paper’s supposed cowardice and insisting that it is in a “state of desperation.” ­

Assange appeared via Skype over the weekend at an investigative reporting symposium hosted at UC Berkeley, where he called-out the Time’s Executive Editor Bill Keller (who appeared live) for pressing Wikileaks to divulge government documents before his own paper would. "That's why The New York Times is careful to say this was not a collaboration," said Assange. "What the Times is afraid of is that one man's collaboration is another man's conspiracy. " Assange lawyer grounded by authorities? UK police want Assange as he seeks asylum in Ecuador. The fight to protect Julian Assange. Assange granted Supreme Court appeal. Greenwald: Assange show - Kremlin propaganda? Look who’s talking! Is Ecuador America's new enemy number one? President Correa could come under attack for appealing to Assange.

Assange Swiss bank account closed. Nobel Prize could protect WikiLeaks founder - Kremlin source. New York Times slimes on Julian Assange. Manning trial a prelude to Assange’s extradition to US? Extradition showdown: UK Supreme Court to rule on Assange. Sweden, UK dragging feet while US drums up case against me - Assange. Published time: June 22, 2012 05:11 Edited time: June 22, 2012 16:44 Julian Assange (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly) Whistleblower Julian Assange has accused the UK and Sweden of conspiring to trap him in England while US authorities make a legal case against him.

He said the Australian government has abandoned him by refusing to intervene in his extradition. In a live interview from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London with Australian Broadcasting Corp radio he stressed that Washington is hatching a plot to bring him to the US. “The situation for me here in the UK has been extremely precarious and the refusal by the Swedish prosecutor to come to the UK for the past 18 months – despite that being absolutely normal procedure – and the refusal of her to explain it in any manner whatsoever to the British courts, has kept me trapped in the United Kingdom, while the United States has prepared its case against me,” the Australian said to ABC.

‘Deliver him to Guantanamo to torture and imprisonment’ The internet's freedom-fighter, Julian Assange. Clumsy Goliaths injure themselves most in their battle with David. Power is imperialist. That's not to say that only traditional, imperial institutions and structures - be they states or vast corporations - seek to exercise power, to take dominion over the realms in which they operate.

Rather, it is to ponder how power seeks to protect its entrenched privileges and extend its claims for ever greater autonomy. If this seems a little thinky, it's not. It's merely a reflection of a week in which the Chinese communist regime embarrassed itself with yet another ham-fisted attempt to crush the Nobel Prize committee for awarding a most inconvenient gong to one of the dictatorship's most inconvenient subjects ("citizens" is probably too fine a word to describe the billion or so people being held hostage by the murderous old clams in charge of the Chinese state).

Nice work, China. But of course, the brutocrats in Beijing are not the only dopey thugs trying their luck at the moment. Not really. Why is Australia silent on Julian Assange? WikiLeaks sticky questions to Gillard What Australian laws has WikiLeaks broken in publishing US diplomatic cables? Julia Gillard fails to name any when questioned by reporters. P 7, 2010 I had dinner once with Salman Rushdie. It's Allah knows how long since that vicious, sex- and death-obsessed old scrote Khomeini dropped a death sentence on Rushdie for having the temerity to commit a thoughtcrime against his barbarous form of religious derangement.

What a long way we've fallen then, to a position where various spokeswhores of the American Right - some of them occupying positions of state power - can call for the assassination or extrajudicial kidnapping of an Australian citizen with nary a word of protest from our own government or dissenting opinion from the opposition. I speak of Julian Assange, of course. Sure, I have issues with WikiLeaks. Assange lawyer: Sweden acted improperly. Assange given human rights award. Assange Wants To Return To Australia. Support Assange, create your own daring exploits. Daniel Mathews speaking at a Melbourne rally to support Julian Assange on July 1. Photo: Ali Bakhtiavandi WikiLeaks co-founder Daniel Mathews gave the speech below to a July 1 protest in Melbourne, organised by the WikiLeaks Australian Citizens Alliance.

Thank you all for coming here today. Being a founding member of WikiLeaks, though not involved for many years now, I want to say something about the background and history of WikiLeaks and where we are today. Some of you here today may be coming to a rally for the first time. Much activism starts afresh. It lies squarely in a long tradition of peoples’ struggles to understand their world, to come to terms with their world as it is, to participate meaningfully in their own lives, to control their own lives and create a better world. How much have we forgotten? We are standing right now in front of the State Library of Victoria — a wonderful institution. Today is a Sunday. Julian Assange has spent a lot of time in this library. US officials pursue Julian Assange. The Assassination of Julian Assange.