Martin Luther King: "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
George Orwell (1984): "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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Friedrich Nietzsche in 'Beyond Good And Evil': "Ultimately 'love of one's neighbour' is always something secondary, in part conventional and arbitrarily illusory, when compared with fear of one's neighbour. Once the structure of society seems to have been in general fixed and made safe from external dangers, it is this fear of one's neighbour which again creates new perspectives of moral valuation. There are certain strong and dangerous drives, such as enterprisingness, foolhardiness, revengefulness, craft, rapacity, ambition, which hitherto had not only to be honoured from the point of view of their social utility - under different names, naturally, from those chosen here - but also mightily developed and cultivated (because they were constantly needed to protect the community as a whole against the enemies of the community as a whole); these drives are noe felt to be doubly dangerous - now that the diversionary outlets for them are lacking - and are gradually branded as immoral and given over to calumny. The antithetical drives and inclinations now come into moral honour; step by step the herd instinct draws its conclusions. How much or how little that is dangerous to the community, dangerous to equality, resides in an opinion, in a condition or emotion, in a will, in a talent, that is now the moral perspective: here again fear is the mother of morality. When the highest and strongest drives, breaking passionately out, carry the individual far above and beyond the average and lowlands of the herd conscience, the self-confidence of the community goes to pieces, its faith in itself, its spine as it were, is broken: consequently it is precisely these drives which are most branded and calumniated. Lofty spiritual independence, the will to stand alone, great intelligence even, are felt to be dangerous; everything that raises the individual above the herd and makes his neighbour quail is henceforth called evil; the fair, modest, obedient, self-effacing disposition, the mean and average in desires, acquires moral names and honours. Eventually, under very peaceful conditions, there is less and less occasion or need to educate one's feelings in severity and sternness; and now every kind of severity, even severity in justice, begins to trouble the conscience; a stern and lofty nobility and self-responsibility is received almost as an offence and awakens mistrust... 'we wish that there will one day no longer be anything to fear!'"
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The Guardian’s Direct Collusion With Media Censorship By Secret Services Exposed by Thomas Scripps
Minutes of Ministry of Defence (MoD) meetings have confirmed the role of Britain’s Guardian newspaper as a mouthpiece for the intelligence agencies.
Last week, independent journalist Matt Kennard revealed that the paper’s deputy editor, Paul Johnson, was personally thanked by the Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice (or D-Notice) committee for integrating the Guardian into the operations of the security services.
Minutes of a meeting in 2018 read: “The Chairman thanked Paul Johnson for his service to the Committee. Paul had joined the Committee in the wake of the Snowden affair and had been instrumental in re-establishing links with the Guardian.”
D-Notices are used by the British state to veto the publication of news damaging to its interests. The slavish collusion of the mainstream media ensures that such notices function as gag orders.
Johnson joined the committee in 2014 and evidently excelled in his performance. A separate set of minutes from the first meeting attended by Johnson records the Guardian’s close collaboration with military officials.
Under a section detailing “advice” given by the intelligence agencies to the media, the document reads “most of the occurrences and requests for advice were related to further publications by The Guardian of extracts from the Snowden documents. The Secretary reported that the engagement of DPBAC [Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee] Secretariat with The Guardian had continued to strengthen during the last six months, with regular dialogues between the Secretary and Deputy Secretaries and Guardian journalists.”
The secretary and deputy secretaries were Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Vallance CB OBE, Air Commodore David Adams and Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds OBE. The chairman was Peter Watkins CBE, the MoD’s director general of Strategy, Security and Policy Operations.
Under the direction of these military intelligence handlers, the Guardian played a role in bringing other newspapers internationally to heel. The minutes note, “because of an agreement between The Guardianand allied publications overseas to coordinate their respective disclosures of Snowden material, advice given to the Guardian has been passed on to the New York Times and others, helping guide the disclosures of these outlets.”
In September 2014, the Guardian allowed the former head of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) Sir David Omand to publish an article titled, “Edward Snowden’s leaks are misguided—they risk exposing us to cyber-attacks.”
He declared, “Journalists are not best placed to identify security risks; we have to trust those who oversee the intelligence-gathering.”
In 2016, Paul Johnson used an unprecedented interview with a serving head of MI5, Andrew Parker, to propagandize for the antidemocratic, warmongering interests of British imperialism.
These facts are damning proof of the Guardian’s total integration into the propaganda wing of the MoD following its involvement in the WikiLeaks and Snowden files releases. Indeed, the work of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange has served to expose and confirm the deep ties of the entire mainstream media to the military-intelligence complex.
The Guardian has been viewed historically as the voice of British liberal dissent, critical of the worst excesses of British capitalism at home and abroad. But it has always acted as a political policeman—filtering the news “responsibly” and channelling the resulting anger into impotent moral appeals to the state and other authorities. Its dealings with Assange and Snowden transformed political allegiance into direct subservience. Its liberal, critical pretensions unravelled in a matter of a few months.
When Assange looked to the Guardian and other papers internationally such as the New York Times to publish the Afghan and Iraq war logs and secret US diplomatic cables in 2010, the editors’ main concern was damage control. Within a month of an initial publication of documents, the Guardian had broken off relations with Assange—publishing an infamous December 17 editorial “WikiLeaks: the man and the idea.” It stated that the Guardian had only agreed to publish “a small number of cables” to control the political fall-out from the details of murder, torture, espionage and corruption they revealed and give it the opportunity of “editing, contextualising, explanation and redaction.”
The main purpose of the editorial was to support Assange’s extradition to Sweden on trumped-up allegations of sexual misconduct relating to a trip to that country a few months earlier.
In an op-ed piece published last month by former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, he assumes to take the moral high ground by claiming that WikiLeaks issued leaks unredacted, and wanted to continue this practise, in contrast with his “responsible” journalism. An editorial published immediately prior to Rusbridger’s article, again supporting Assange’s extradition to Sweden to face “charges” that don’t exist, stated, “The Guardian disapproved of the mass publication of unredacted documents ... and broke with Mr. Assange over the issue.”
This is a self-serving lie. WikiLeaks has pointed out that the editorial “conveniently leaves out” that it was the Guardian —through a book authored by David Leigh and Luke Harding—that disclosed the password to the digital file Assange had given them in confidence. The book was a hatchet job on WikiLeaks. The rights to it were sold, becoming the basis of a slanderous Hollywood movie.
When NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked files detailing blanket state surveillance of the world’s population in 2013, the Guardian set out to play the same “responsible” role. Asked afterwards if the paper had held back from publishing anything about GCHQ and UK security services because of “worries about national security,” the ever-pliant Mr. Rusbridger replied, “Yes, we’ve held back a great deal, we’ve published a small amount of what we have read.”
This time, however, the Guardian was told by the security services that even rigorously filtering the Snowden’s revelations was not good enough. It must stop publishing immediately.
The country’s top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, called the Guardian’s offices to pass on the demands of then Prime Minister David Cameron that the Snowden material either be returned to the government or destroyed. Editors were threatened with legal action if they did not comply.
Rusbridger later explained, “The tone was steely, if cordial, but there was an implicit threat that others within government and Whitehall favoured a far more draconian approach.” This is a masterpiece of understatement. Emails obtained by the Associated Press in 2014 showed that this was an operation conducted in intimate collusion between the government, the British security services and the US National Security Agency, including then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
In the end, two GCHQ security officials directly oversaw the Guardian’s destruction of its own material. Three Guardian staff members, including Paul Johnson himself, destroyed the hard drives in the Guardian’s possession with angle grinders and other equipment provided by GCHQ officials.
The Guardian had been put in a position it never wanted. Its liberal reputation, and previous disclosures, had made it the newspaper of choice for WikiLeaks’ and Snowden’s revelations. But the scale of what had been uncovered threatened the fundamental interests of British and US imperialism. It therefore rolled over when the government told it to cease and desist, before taking its place alongside the rest of the right-wing media on the secret committee responsible for press censorship and propaganda dissemination.
One of Assange’s persecutors-in-chief, Luke Harding, enjoys the most intimate relations with the security services. His notorious November 2018 fabrication, claiming Assange held meetings with US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, was published in the Guardian just two weeks after Johnson was thanked for “re-establishing links” with the MoD. The story was widely cited and formed a keystone of the efforts, spearheaded by the Democrats in the US, to present WikiLeaks and “Russian interference” as the causes of Trump’s 2016 election victory.
Harding played a central role in silencing questions over the UK government’s bogus account of the Skripal affair in mid-2018. These events were the subject of at least one D-notice, issued while Paul Johnson was on the responsible committee.
An unintended but valuable consequence of the WikiLeaks exposures has been to explode the fraud of the Guardian’s claim to any critical independence from the state. The crimes of the major imperialist powers against the world’s population made available by WikiLeaks were so great that they could not be neutralised, even by the Guardian’s professional gatekeepers of the “truth.” Not a word published in this imperialist propaganda sheet can ever be taken at face value.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky in 'Notes From The Underground': "Power, power was what I wanted then, sport was what I wanted, I wanted to wring out your tears, your humiliation, your hysteria - that was what I wanted then."
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"I think everybody should take a sober look at the world about us, remember that practically everything that you're told about other countries is untrue; what we're told about ourselves and our great strength and how much loved we are - forget it. Our strength is there but it's the kind of strength that blows off your hand while you hold up the grenade; it's a suicidal strength as well as a murderous one. So here we are, and let us hope it is not the end of the road, even though there's every sign that it is not the yellow brick road up ahead" - Gore Vidal in "History Of The National Security State".
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Fyodor Dostoevsky in 'Notes From The Underground': "Power, power was what I wanted then, sport was what I wanted, I wanted to wring out your tears, your humiliation, your hysteria - that was what I wanted then."
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"I think everybody should take a sober look at the world about us, remember that practically everything that you're told about other countries is untrue; what we're told about ourselves and our great strength and how much loved we are - forget it. Our strength is there but it's the kind of strength that blows off your hand while you hold up the grenade; it's a suicidal strength as well as a murderous one. So here we are, and let us hope it is not the end of the road, even though there's every sign that it is not the yellow brick road up ahead" - Gore Vidal in "History Of The National Security State".
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WikiLeaks Releases and Labour Rights— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) July 18, 2019
By exposing major, secret trade deals #TPP, #TTIP and #TISA, WikiLeaks fueled social justice & fair trade movements around the world. The TPP and TTIP have since been stalled, while TiSA remains classified.https://t.co/CJxFfkhREW pic.twitter.com/kukxkXfsC3
Former Ecuadorian foreign minister @RicardoPatinoEC: "Every day we are more certain that we did the right thing granting Assange political asylum"— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 17, 2019
An interview about why Assange was granted asylum and the political pressures that lead Moreno to revoke it:https://t.co/nJIVIDVAQT
Chelsea Manning is now being fined $1000 a day for refusing to testify against Assange and WikiLeaks. If she does not testify, she will be fined nearly half a million dollars over the course of the grand jury.https://t.co/X51GmHBUQH— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 17, 2019
The Assange precedent: Journalists in Britain threatened with Official Secrets Acthttps://t.co/e7WIS4TKYg— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) July 16, 2019
— WikiLeaks Art ⌛ (@WLArtForce) July 10, 2019
Amal Clooney @DoughtyStIntl speaking now at #DefendMediaFreedom conference raises #Assange indictment in the United States and echoes concerns raised by @nytimes and @washingtonpost about it criminalising journalistic practices https://t.co/nZagA5BYaw— Jen Robinson (@suigenerisjen) July 10, 2019
Noam Chomsky on the US attempt to extradite Assange: "But why should the United States have the power to control what others are doing elsewhere in the world? I mean, it’s an outlandish situation. It goes on all the time. We never even notice it."https://t.co/JWMif5FXyr— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 9, 2019
Newly elected Greek MP, cofounder of transnational movement @DiEM25, and former finance minister @yanisvaroufakis stands with #WeAreMillions to #FreeAssange https://t.co/6ZiutYFp0K pic.twitter.com/4FO5fcZULn— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) July 8, 2019
Carles Puigdemont, 130th President of Catalonia, supports press freedom and Julian Assange#WeAreMillions #FreeAssange@KRLShttps://t.co/6ZiutYFp0K pic.twitter.com/n4vKZeYpYw— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) July 6, 2019
Support a free press?— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 4, 2019
Release Julian Assange you press freedom oppressing hypocrites. How dare you speak about press freedom while a journalist who reported US war crimes is your political prisoner. #DefendMediaFreedom https://t.co/UimugSTvVW
"Imagine it: Years from now people will say: Oh, if only I had known what we were losing when they abused this decent and courageous man!" - Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. #FreeAssange#WeAreMillionshttps://t.co/6ZiutYFp0K pic.twitter.com/8JIrzNrDfq— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) July 3, 2019
"Assange, Manning, and Snowden are authentic public heroes who should be celebrated" -Slavoj Žižek#WeAreMillions#FreeAssange @zizekupdates https://t.co/6ZiutYWZSi pic.twitter.com/fEmg36Fmyf— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) July 2, 2019
Julian #Assange - after medical assessment under the Istanbul Protocol - demonstrated “symptoms of long-term exposure to psychological torture”: UNSR on torture @NilsMelzer #HRC41 @IADLLaw event— Jen Robinson (@suigenerisjen) June 27, 2019
A War on Press Freedoms in the Name of National Security— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 26, 2019
"Successfully prosecuting Assange and WikiLeaks for espionage would be a devastating threat to a free and independent press in the United States."#FreeAssange #NoExtradition https://t.co/G7nlWrNDTU
Qualcosa da dire? il monumento a Julian Assange, Edward Snowden e Chelsea Manning (https://t.co/mKRDgfW6SL) sarà a Spoleto, in Italia, il 6 luglio: pic.twitter.com/YahEfo7JLV— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 24, 2019
Core Values: Capable generous men do not create victims. They nurture victims. That's from my father & other capable generous men that's been in my life. One way of nurturing victims is to police perpetrators of crime. That's something that's been in my character for a long time. pic.twitter.com/8XbMMe0R0B— ⏳The Solitary Reaper (@YonSolitary) June 18, 2019
Matt Kennard's expose of the Guardian's collusion with Britain's deep state is real journalism. See the analysis below. A veneer of often facile gender promotion is not nearly enough to suppress the truth of a determined assault on democracy from within. https://t.co/XCPMgzyyYf— John Pilger (@johnpilger) June 22, 2019
Tech journalists troubled by Assange computer intrusion charge https://t.co/hSignqGtoC— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) June 21, 2019
Important speech by @WashingtonPost executive editor @PostBaron about how the Trump admin's indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is an unprecedented and dangerous threat to press freedom. https://t.co/OwDnR4EHji pic.twitter.com/CPEt5ct27T— Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) June 20, 2019
"I appeal to all of you. Think about what Assange stands for. Assange needs you but at a deeper level you need him!" Slavoj #Žižek, philosopher & @DiEM_25 Advisory Panel member— DiEM25 (@DiEM_25) June 18, 2019
Sign the petition against #Assange's extradition to the US
👉 https://t.co/Lre2PMraYX #FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/ZOmM4pOqGV
Judge Emma Arbuthnot stepped aside in 2018 over her husbands links yet refuses to step aside now in the case against Julian Assange even though her family has links to defence contractors, MI6 and Snowden critics! 2018: https://t.co/o3KNEuKnsU More: https://t.co/ejgCiNbNmw— Kelly Kolisnik (@kellykolisnik) June 18, 2019
Pentagon Papers lawyer @JamesGoodale1 says Julian Assange is being indicted "for publishing and gathering the news." He calls the charges "absolutely novel," adding that if the Justice Department finds Assange guilty, they will have "criminalized the news gathering process." pic.twitter.com/bKyh9HPNlz— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 18, 2019
"The Association of German Journalists calls on the British authorities to release whistleblower Julian Assange immediately." https://t.co/saClnsKdJ2— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 17, 2019
To think that #Putin releases framed journalist #Golunov & sacks top officials after concerted protests by Russian media, while Western media still fail to even grasp the framing of #Assange & their own impending demise.https://t.co/Rknmr9DsYJ— Nils Melzer (@NilsMelzer) June 17, 2019
Ai Weiwei: “Why Hong Kong can be a new Tiananmen and why Assange is a political prisoner” - https://t.co/TVRNReRELZ https://t.co/rNLLZ1l9s5— 艾未未 Ai Weiwei (@aiww) June 15, 2019
John Pilger: The Global War on Assange, Journalism & Dissent https://t.co/AQKSj0cjZy— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 14, 2019
A motion from @withMEAA and other journalists unions regarding the extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange has been passed at #IFJTunis. Thanks to our @IFJGlobal colleagues for their support. pic.twitter.com/EbDb1HLFGG— Karen Percy (@PercyKaren) June 14, 2019
4. what does my #FOIA litigation against @cpsuk reveals? It reveals that it was the @cpsuk that advised the Swedish prosecutors against questioning #Assange in London,thus contributing to create the legal-diplomatic quagmire which has kept #Assange #arbitrarilydetained for 9YEARS— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) June 14, 2019
I was in court for Julian #Assange's extradition hearing before a judge whose husband was a Tory defence minister. "My life is at stake," said a fragile Julian by video link from prison. Denied a computer, he is prevented from preparing his own defence. Such is British "justice".— John Pilger (@johnpilger) June 14, 2019
An emotional Lauri Love, who fought and won against extradition to the US, says if Julian Assange is sent to the US 'none of us should be able to live with ourselves'. pic.twitter.com/pIPEmYAjbw— RT UK (@RTUKnews) June 14, 2019
Lawyers do not have sufficient access to #Assange, says @suigenerisjen We cannot get him papers. It takes weeks to reach him. He has no computer to prepare or read materials. It's such a serious extradition case, raises such fundamental questions about journalistic protections.— Flick Ruby (@FlickRubicon) June 14, 2019
John Kiriakou: "Assange 'won't receive a fair trial' in the US"https://t.co/H8CCaM4aFz— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 14, 2019
PEN International and English PEN on the decision to sign a US extradition order for Julian Assange:https://t.co/StYcqKCJe8 pic.twitter.com/uMkKDcajup— PEN International (@pen_int) June 14, 2019
UK must not be complicit in the extradition and prosecution of #Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange #PressFreedom #whistleblowers https://t.co/BrMzUJEmW0— ARTICLE 19 (@article19org) June 13, 2019
More than 50 US, UK, Australian & Canadian academics, human rights activists and lawyers call on the US & UK to immediately release of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning from prison https://t.co/Q6yrT4Wp6N— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 12, 2019
Assange’s “crime” was revealing deep, embarrassing, sometimes deadly, malfeasance by numerous actors, including the U.S. government, the media, the Democratic Party-Clinton machine, and Israel.https://t.co/f5YlxpLovv— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) June 11, 2019
The US extradition request to the UK must be denied. Assange is a journalist who has done his work as a journalist. The extradition request contravenes the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #Assange— Alfred de Zayas (@Alfreddezayas) June 11, 2019
U.S. delivers formal extradition request for Julian Assange to U.K. | Washington Posthttps://t.co/6cUtFgyTJT— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 10, 2019
'You don't stand a chance': how the press freedom argument will go for Assange #JournalismIsNotACrime #NoExtradition #FreeAssangehttps://t.co/fks1wkn7Gr— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 10, 2019
AT LONG LAST! 18 months after the verdict of the London #FirstTierTribunal,the UK #UpperTribunal just scheduled the public hearing for our #FOIA to access the full documents on Julian #Assange: 1 July 2019, 10.30 am #London.My lawyers and I will make directions available ASAP— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) June 10, 2019
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been awarded by the Club de Periodistas in Mexico.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 9, 2019
Celeste Sáenz de Miera, secretary general of the Club criticised that at present it is "more dangerous to investigate massacres than to commit them".https://t.co/ZzyHNN8NFT pic.twitter.com/9j8kqjTSDm
George Orwell published his novel #1984 70 years ago today. It warns of totalitarian governments and public surveillance. But did you know that #Orwell himself was the subject of surveillance by the British state?— The National Archives (@UkNatArchives) June 8, 2019
Find out more in our blog: https://t.co/sbl4j7ImWf #ColdWarSeason pic.twitter.com/NlwTIGwlWq
Julian Assange is a journalist, truth-teller and political prisoner.— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) June 7, 2019
Press Release: DoJ preparing to file additional indictment against Assange.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 7, 2019
The Trump´s DoJ is so desperate to build its case against Assange that it is using as star witness a sociopath, convicted conman and sex criminal, involved in an FBI entrapment operation against WikiLeaks pic.twitter.com/DX0hIDSJRr
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Belmarsh Prison Inmate Provides Photos of Julian Assange, Says ‘Internet is the One Thing They Can’t Control’ https://t.co/ZLcZfvvddL— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) June 6, 2019
"These raids are about intimidating journalists and media organisations because of their truth-telling. They are about more than hunting down whistleblowers...but also preventing the media from shining a light on the actions of government." https://t.co/mJk86hGbba— Jen Robinson (@suigenerisjen) June 5, 2019
WL statement: The raids by the Australian Federal Police over the past 24 hours on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and News Limited journalist Annika Smethurst demonstrate a concerted attack on freedom of the press in Australia. pic.twitter.com/6asYzn2RhL— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 5, 2019
"We have to somehow communicate what we know while we still can." - Julian Assange, Cypherpunks, 2012.— Suzie Dawson (@Suzi3D) June 5, 2019
AlJazeera: Julian Assange, the Espionage Act and implications for free media | The Listening Post (Lead)https://t.co/ODwzWvnVPe— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 3, 2019
— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) June 3, 2019
Sweden's Uppsala District Court has found in favour of Assange: the court ruled NOT to detain Assange in absentia.— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) June 3, 2019
The preliminary investigation can proceed without Assange's extradition to Sweden. This was always the case as Assange has always cooperated with the investigation.
"Hunt's dismissal did not just confirm the UN's findings that the UK gov had been complicit in creating "an atmosphere of impunity encouraging Mr. Assange’s uninhibited vilification and abuse”, it also showed once again that Assange has no chance of fair and impartial treatment ” pic.twitter.com/fneXSLSx0y— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 3, 2019
"We’ll be persecuted for the same reasons: because what we shall disclose will inevitably prove that our governments and those of our allies commit war crimes; and those responsible for these iniquities will try to make us pay ... with a life behind bars"https://t.co/diAImkaeys— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 3, 2019
Instead of campaigning at home, candidate for UK Prime Minister @jeremy_hunt is on US TV in time for Trump's visit to UK tomorrow. Hunt's pitch: if chosen as UK Prime Minister he'll extradite Assange to US to be imprisoned for publishing.#TheApprentice https://t.co/qh5LgJpebS— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) June 2, 2019
"Revealing important information about the Yemen war – in which at least 70,000 people have been killed – is the reason why the US government is persecuting both Assange and Zikry."https://t.co/pevYuVWLfB— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 2, 2019
“It’s not just the whistleblowers who are being attacked, it’s also those who step forward and help the whistleblowers,” said Tibbo. “It has created a chilling effect ... on anybody daring to expose any government on their egregious or criminal conduct.” https://t.co/xF14VbwoIk— For the Refugees (@4TheRefugees) May 31, 2019
No matter how the British, US, Australian, Swedish & Ecuadorian governments torture Julian Assange of Wikileaks, people all around the world will never be able to "un-see" what he revealed of the barbarity of NATO-nation war crimes.#FreeAssange #FreeChelseaManning pic.twitter.com/k6iVymVkxm— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) May 31, 2019
With all due respect, Sir: Mr Assange was about as „free to leave“ as a someone sitting on a rubberboat in a sharkpool. As detailed in my formal letter to you, so far, UK courts have not shown the impartiality and objectivity required by the rule of law.— Nils Melzer (@NilsMelzer) May 31, 2019
Julian Assange Must Never Be Extradited | @mtaibbihttps://t.co/nogUZoOQTd— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 30, 2019
— Nils Melzer (@NilsMelzer) May 31, 2019
BREAKING - UN Torture Expert: “The evidence is overwhelming and clear. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment"#auspolhttps://t.co/RTFlDCyrnI— Defend Assange Campaign (@DefendAssange) May 31, 2019
Time to call Julian Assange what he is: a political prisoner persecuted for publishing information that revealed crimes of the powerful. Democrats, Republicans & global elites despise him for exposing war crimes & corruption. Fight for his freedom to protect our own! #FreeAssange https://t.co/ZyURppattL— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) May 30, 2019
‘A grave threat to freedom of speech’: Our @suigenerisjen @DoughtyStIntl acts for #Assange and @wikileaks and spoke with @NBCNews about the free speech implications of the US indictment for Assange - a first in US history https://t.co/RpQs50mncC— Doughty Street Int'l (@DoughtyStIntl) May 30, 2019
Politicians and the corporate media drowned out with ridicule the warning in 2016 of UN experts on arbitrary detention that Assange's most basic rights were being dangerously violated. Now with Assange gravely ill in Belmarsh, we see the consequences of their failure to speak out https://t.co/foEvsPLxk8— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) May 30, 2019
Matthew Hoh told #Unity4J shortly before #Assange's arrest:— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) May 29, 2019
“When they get their hands on him, they will do things that will be criminal, it will be immoral, it will be torture.” #FreeAssange https://t.co/l2nsLDUOg7
WikiLeaks has grave concerns about the state of health of our publisher, Julian Assange, who has been moved to the health ward of Belmarsh prison. - See full statement: pic.twitter.com/HnZVks4kWj— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 29, 2019
While Trump appears to be making moves to pardon more war criminals, those who have exposed war crimes, including whistleblower Chelsea Manning and journalist Julian Assange, are charged with contempt of court and espionage.https://t.co/kpjrlUBlrF— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) May 29, 2019
Trump Justice Department’s Prosecution Of Julian Assange Relies On Contrived Conspiracy Theory | great breakdown by @kgosztola of the DOJ's resuscitation of its theory that failed in Chelsea Manning's trial https://t.co/qguFlQuTSL— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 29, 2019
Also, @marcthiessen doesn't #FactCheck. "In 2010 [#Assange released] >250k classified State Dept cables, all unredacted" WRONG! *All redacted* by #WikiLeaks' media partners until Sep 2011. (@Guardian foolishly published the unredacted #CableGate password.) Study ⬇️, Mr Thiessen pic.twitter.com/MTIeYuzqGK— Bella Magnani ⏳ (@BellaMagnani) May 29, 2019
Sydney Peace Prize laureates urge Australian government to protect Julian Assange— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 28, 2019
"The Australian Government must intervene now. We call on the civilized world to uphold the true values of peace with justice and to stand up for Julian Assange."https://t.co/WUP3rdiEdJ
A mural of imprisoned @wikileaks founder #julianassange in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, the highest city in the world. #assangelibertad #FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/hiOLkb1bPv— Pablo Navarrete (@pablonav1) May 27, 2019
"Sadly I thought it would end this way...Julian Assange is the kind of person I've always wanted to see!" 😰— Going Underground on RT (@Underground_RT) May 27, 2019
-Award winning poet and writer @BZephaniah discusses the work of imprisoned @Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange
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You may not like Assange, but journalism and the right to report in the public interest are in the cross hairs here. Whistleblowers already risk much - to lob in Espionage Act or similar? It's an alarming lurch against freedom of expression which not only journalists should fear. https://t.co/47SenYznrY— Mark Daly (@BBCMarkDaly) May 26, 2019
The Vichy journalists of the MSM have finally taken fright that the monstrous US charges against Julian #Assange are now a threat to them. Yet the cowards at the NYT, the Guardian etc continue to smear this heroic man who shamed them by refusing to join their gatekeepers' club.— John Pilger (@johnpilger) May 27, 2019
The Assange Case Could Prove The Most Important Press Case In 300 Years | Jonathan Turleyhttps://t.co/x6BDtrXkON— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 27, 2019
Defend Julian Assange, fight extraditionhttps://t.co/0lyfwWBxaD pic.twitter.com/E0NLdqhP1s— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 26, 2019
Pardoning war criminals while prosecuting those who expose them would make a mockery of Memorial Day. Honor all who’ve sacrificed by upholding our highest ideals - civil liberties, the rule of law, human rights. Drop charges against Assange, Manning, Hale. https://t.co/egOFcNff0u— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) May 25, 2019
What #Assange “is accused of doing is exactly what professional journalists do every day -- seeking, receiving and publishing important information” about gov’t — #Trump Admin now using Espionage Act as defacto Official Secrets act criminalizing journalism https://t.co/MZ6O9GowaV— Thomas Drake (@Thomas_Drake1) May 25, 2019
Espionage charges were dropped against Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, due to illegal evidence gathering by US. The criminal seizure of Assange’s documents & computer this week is a set up for evidence tampering. Charges against Assange should be dropped. https://t.co/t6SyeuxLHn— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) May 24, 2019
— Daniel Ellsberg (@DanielEllsberg) May 24, 2019
Julian Assange's lawyer @suigenerisjen on the new charges he faces under the Espionage Act: "It is a grave threat to press freedom and should be cause for concern for journalists and publishers everywhere." pic.twitter.com/kAokxgDuLi— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) May 24, 2019
How Many Times Must Assange Be Proven Right Before People Start Listening? https://t.co/mnYXNmGB5S— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 24, 2019
The fascist nature of the charges against Julian #Assange is demonstrated by those that relate to documents about Guantanamo Bay and "CIA detainee interrogation videos" -- torture videos. If the courts in Britain do not stop this grotesque charade, justice will lose all meaning.— John Pilger (@johnpilger) May 24, 2019
The Department of Justice just declared war––not on Wikileaks, but on journalism itself. This is no longer about Julian Assange: This case will decide the future of media. https://t.co/a5WHmTCDpg— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) May 23, 2019
Assange, @wikileaks & @xychelsea did incalculable service, especially for oppressed peoples, by revealing US crimes and intrigues. They’re paying price for doing the job US regime journalists refuse to do. If you value press freedom as more than a slogan you must stand with them.— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) May 24, 2019
WIKILEAKS RESPONDS TO ESPIONAGE ACT INDICTMENT AGAINST ASSANGE: UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON FREE PRESS pic.twitter.com/F0iUyr0R7F— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 24, 2019
With superseding indictment against Assange, Justice Dept explicitly targets journalism, where govt or military source provides classified documents to media organization, as conspiracy to commit espionage. It's blatant attack on press freedom.— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) May 23, 2019
Let's go through the indictment.
BREAKING: For the first time in the history of our country, the government has brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against a publisher for the publication of truthful information. This is a direct assault on the First Amendment. https://t.co/RJxjFPfkHe— ACLU (@ACLU) May 23, 2019
Julian Assange exposes Hillary Clinton’s role in arming head-chopping Al-Qaeda jihadists both in Libya and Syria -> faces up to 170 years in prison on 17 charges.— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) May 23, 2019
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton -> roams free, does media, gets book deals and receives never-ending celebrity treatment. pic.twitter.com/zHFkVco8Ge
I find no satisfaction in saying ‘I told you so’ to those who for 9 years have scorned us for warning this moment would come. I care for journalism. If you share my feeling you take a stand NOW. Either you are a worthless coward or you defend Assange, WikiLeaks and Journalism. https://t.co/NkUfZWYan8— Kristinn Hrafnsson (@khrafnsson) May 23, 2019
First they came for the whistleblowers, and I did not speak out bc they should’ve gone thru proper channels— unR̶A̶D̶A̶C̶K̶ted (@JesselynRadack) May 24, 2019
Then they came for the hacktivists, and I did not speak up bc they’re kind of odd
Then they came for a publisher, and I did not speak out bc he’s not a “real” publisher
US press—think you’re exempt? Think again. So you can revile, dismiss & attack #Assange but you’re no different from @wikileaks informing public by publishing ‘secrets’ exposing abuse of State & NatSec power. Or turn into presstitutes for gov’t propaganda? https://t.co/KKH4tu2LW7— Thomas Drake (@Thomas_Drake1) May 24, 2019
It's telling that @EDVAnews appears to have obtained an indictment *before* my contempt hearing last week. https://t.co/c6SPE6tYvy— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) May 24, 2019
The war on Julian #Assange is now a war on all. Eighteen absurd charges including espionage send a burning message to every journalist, every publisher. The target today is #Assange. Tomorrow it will be you on the New York Times, you on the BBC. Modern fascism is breaking cover.— John Pilger (@johnpilger) May 23, 2019
The “Assange Precedent”: The threat to the media posed by Trump’s prosecution of Julian #Assange https://t.co/FRKfMNf6Dk https://t.co/Qz3sGV6Abv— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 23, 2019
“If anything surfaces, I can assure you it would’ve been planted,” says @wikileaks editor @khrafnsson about Ecuador's seizure of his computers. “Julian isn’t a novice when it comes to security. We expected this to happen." time.”https://t.co/11lWYyayaU— Joshua Goodman (@APjoshgoodman) May 20, 2019
"I want to live in a society in which you can expose #WarCrimes, #MassSurveillance,without spending 7years in jail as @xychelsea did,without being #arbitrarilydetained for 9years as Julian #Assange, without being forced to escape to #Russia, as @snowden" https://t.co/DZpJBsFxsF— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) May 18, 2019
Former Ecuadorian diplomat on his country’s treatment of Julian Assange.— The Canary (@TheCanaryUK) May 19, 2019
Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/xdmfpXTYXJ
Read the companion piece here: https://t.co/Ac1JYae4Cb pic.twitter.com/WI6RSOVUs5
I visited Julian #Assange in prison. He has been ill, but his courage is astonishing. He is locked up for up to 23 hours. Let no one doubt he is a political prisoner, fraudulent events in Sweden included. His crime is truthful journalism. Shame on those who feign otherwise.— John Pilger (@johnpilger) May 18, 2019
Lawyer Garzon: "all the international institutions that the defence has petitioned to have found in our favour in respect of the fact that Assange is a victim of arbitrary treatment", cites UN Special Procedures, hte Interamerican Court and Commissionhttps://t.co/eEu7r0SjOc— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) May 18, 2019
** Today, Chelsea was not only put back in jail, but Judge Anthony Trenga ordered her to be fined $500 every day she is in custody after 30 days and $1,000 every day she is in custody after 60 days. This is unprecedented. https://t.co/3AU6ni0ZWz— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) May 16, 2019
The war against the public's right to know continues to rage. The US military-security complex continues its assault on the body and spirit on one of the bravest persons alive: Chelsea Manning. Where are the defenders of liberty and decency? https://t.co/yAPYiqozaC— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) May 17, 2019
The UK courts and tribunals recognise @wikileaks as media organisation and #Assange as a journalist. At least they get this right. So should everyone else. pic.twitter.com/B4nHBgRJhy— Kristinn Hrafnsson (@khrafnsson) May 16, 2019
A democracy that imprisons publishers is not a democracy.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 15, 2019
Please donate.https://t.co/vvbZBOydoj pic.twitter.com/hvsSgMu9Kb
Why Everyone Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead https://t.co/LLTYe90INV— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 15, 2019
"The authorities care so little about violence against women that they manipulate rape allegations at will, usually to increase their powers, this time to facilitate Assange's extradition or even rendition to the US."https://t.co/EqysNhuGdB— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) May 14, 2019
Important article on the instrumentalisation of the Swedish investigation to distract from US extradition and prosecution of a publisher, which will fatally wound freedom of the press and the protection of journalists from US extradition from Europe.https://t.co/KlxhRe5aVI— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) May 13, 2019
Sweden suppresses vital evidence in the Assange case. Damning texts from the women include: "I did not want to put any charges against JA," and "it was the police who fabricated the charges”. Once extradited, Assange faces a secret trial, with no jury. This is an epic injustice.— John Pilger (@johnpilger) May 13, 2019
So the plan was always to first destroy Julian #Assange name, and turn his support base, progressives, against him, to then smoothly prosecute him for the crime of publishing the truth. Do it as slowly as possible, so people will forget the importance of @wikileaks revelations.— Renata Avila (@avilarenata) May 13, 2019
"This administration clearly wants to go after journalists," says Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.— CNN International (@cnni) May 12, 2019
Manning was just released from prison but faces another subpoena and possibly more jail time for refusing to testify about her disclosure of secrets to Wikileaks https://t.co/qtEjykwCjM pic.twitter.com/jSVyIJc0vI
Note to editors:— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) May 11, 2019
Julian Assange did not seek asylum from extradition to Sweden. He sought asylum from onward extradition to the United States.
UK and Sweden govs refused to guarantee no US extradition.
Read Assange's 2012 asylum application in full:https://t.co/5CLrrSWOGz pic.twitter.com/nrpxeyuYqK
#Assange believed his stay as an asylee in Ecuadorean Embassy would last 6 months to a year. Reality was close to 7 years, a violation of his human rights and creating enduring health effects. My interview w/ @JorgeGestoso for @teleSURtv (in Spanish) https://t.co/4WTCLZKMcr— Sean Love, MD (@SeanLoveMD) May 9, 2019
BREAKING: Chelsea Manning released from Alexandria Detention Center after Grand Jury lapses. Chelsea has been subpoenaed to appear before another Grand Jury May 16, 2019. https://t.co/RW3pkKYAe3— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) May 10, 2019
A journalist locked 23 hours a day. Political persecution. Inside the EU. Enough reasons for #Switzerland to step in and grant asylum to Julian #Assange https://t.co/f6xJ04Ac0e #Australia is doing nothing to protect a citizen, politically persecuted for over a decade.— Renata Avila (@avilarenata) May 10, 2019
Skepticism is brewing -— Pamela Anderson (@pamfoundation) May 7, 2019
The public know
when they are being misled -
Journalists tend to underestimate people.
There is wisdom on the streets. People can see through
The attempted smears.
Don’t be polite -
Gloves off !
Julian does not belong in prison. #saveassange
With legal battles looming in regard to US extradition of Assange it maybe timely to remind ourselves of what happened to activist Aaron Swartz and the subsequent extradition battle fought by Lauri Love— Tom Coburg (@Undercoverinfo1) May 7, 2019
https://t.co/4nQd8tPOyfhttps://t.co/oDQkQCEtoChttps://t.co/I7LH7iqPe5
First visitors to high security prison where Julian #Assange is: @pamfoundation @SwaziJAF and @khrafnsson The @UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is demanding the immediate release of @wikileaks founder: https://t.co/XxkaNvCAgq Demand his release! #FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/qUYVCrfa8N— Renata Avila (@avilarenata) May 7, 2019
Dan Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, thus turning public opinion against the US gvt's criminal pursuit of the Vietnam War, is now telling us: Julian Assange is his modern day equivalent https://t.co/oYp89gefOV— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) May 8, 2019
"The purpose of this defamation campaign: to win our apathy so he can be quietly disposed of, as we will agree to the erosion of the law and the criminalisation of journalism and whistle blowers, and the politicising of the courts in subservience to US"https://t.co/763oR9jyMn— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) May 7, 2019
In jail for associating with Julian Assange. pic.twitter.com/c1Tug6cINw— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) May 4, 2019
Ecuadorian Ombudsman declares the expulsion of @JulianAssange from their embassy as a "de facto extradition" from Ecuador to the UK, which was illegal under multiple national & international laws. Concerns expressed for asylees the world over. pic.twitter.com/CzXFznLF5y— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) May 5, 2019
The @UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a bold statement to the UK Government: “the right of Mr #Assange to personal liberty must be restored.” https://t.co/OruLNGJwSm #WPFD2019 #FreeAssange— Renata Avila (@avilarenata) May 3, 2019
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 3, 2019
Pentagon Papers lawyer James Goodale, former counsel to the New York Times, discusses the dangerous precedent the prosecution of Julian Assange would set and criticizes “establishment” media outlets who published Wikileaks documents for not speaking out. https://t.co/C6qILwTLG7— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) May 1, 2019
Happy World Press Freedom Day! #WPFD2019 #NoExtradition #FreeAssange #WeAreAssange pic.twitter.com/ud9p964RZw— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) May 3, 2019
FBI Affidavit in Assange’s Case Shows Government is Criminalizing Publication of Afghanistan War Logs https://t.co/HtZFRb6XYz— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 2, 2019
On #WPFD2019 a multi-award-winning journalists is sitting in a high security prison in London awaiting extradition to the US where he may spend the rest of his life in supermax--for his publishing work#FreeAssangehttps://t.co/ajhPXfCAxE— Defend Assange Campaign (@DefendAssange) May 3, 2019
Here is the letter by Edward Snowden in support of Julian Assange. Thank you @SPIEGELONLINE for mentioning it was first read out - before being published by you - at a solidarity protest organised by @deineuropa and @DiEM_25https://t.co/aTyEqQOR1E— Srećko Horvat (@HorvatSrecko) May 2, 2019
Assange told the court: "I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many awards and protected many people."https://t.co/LYamcvbwmC— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 2, 2019
The UN ruled that Julian Assange's detention was arbitrary, specifically stating that "human rights treaty law is binding law." Today Judge Taylor summarily rejected that ruling in sentencing Assange to 50 weeks in prison https://t.co/B0Wceob89B pic.twitter.com/NqjSORC3uR— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 1, 2019
Lauri Love, who has been through extradition proceedings of his own: They want to make an example of Julian Assange https://t.co/vVMskgbT65#NoExtradition #FreeAssange— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) May 2, 2019
Assange sentence raises serious issues. It dismisses the UN determination on arbitrary detention as "not binding on this court" & containing "misconceptions". If UK judiciary has been captured by the state, that is the very definition of authoritarianism.https://t.co/xZeGPbaxlx— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) May 1, 2019
Julian Assange's sentence is as shocking as it is vindictive. We have grave concerns as to whether he will receive a fair extradition hearing in the UK.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 1, 2019
His continued residency didn't cost taxpayers a penny. The agenda to arrest him on sight for US extradition cost £16m of taxpayers' money. https://t.co/AnXUNld7K2— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) May 1, 2019
Addressing the judge, Mr Assange’s defence says it is “crucially important that you understand the difference between refoulement and extradition”. The suggestion being that one operates “outside the legal process” and could lead to torture.— Jordan Milne (@JEMilneSky) May 1, 2019
the UK authorities contributed to create the legal-diplomatic quagmire which kept Julian #Assange arbitrarily detained for 9 YEARS,they opposed Swedish prosecutors dropping the case in 2013, they destroyed the documents, now they jail Julian #Assange. This is a complete scandal— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) May 1, 2019
here is my op-ed on the @wikileaks founder, @DefendAssange, for @Newsweek: https://t.co/voPMO3F8QL Will anyone demand transparency and accountability from the @cpsuk in their handling of the #Assange case from the very beginning?— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) April 30, 2019
NOTE: without the #HackingTeam's internal emails published by @wikileaks, this investigation on the #JamalKhashoggi #Murder would have been impossible. The same applies to the @IgnatiusPost's investigation: he did use #HackingTeam's emails— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) April 29, 2019
Does @jimmy_wales have any comment on Philip Cross editing Assange-Manafort content?— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 29, 2019
Is @Kathviner comfortable that Guardian fake news about Assange is used to justify extradition?
By failing to retract, Viner digs herself deeper into a bottomless holehttps://t.co/lV2XfZeiL8
Julian Assange’s father is urging Australian authorities to step in and stop Assange’s extradition to the US, and ultimately, finally bring him home. But does he deserve our support? #60Mins— 60 Minutes Australia (@60Mins) April 28, 2019
According to the US government, Assange was arrested on a UK warrant which the UK had obtained based on a request from USA & knowledge of the March 6 US warrant--but the US gov says the US warrant has not been executed.— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 28, 2019
via @_cryptome_
h/t @Firefly1776https://t.co/V7YZRipgU6 pic.twitter.com/LcczkBpdDC
Psychologists for Social Responsibility @PsySR_org in their statement defending freedom of Julian Assange describes how @WikiLeaks has provided information vital for democracy & what their publication meant to the organization. https://t.co/nmwTEnbeeQ 1/7— Nozomi Hayase (@nozomimagine) April 27, 2019
Archive: Shortly before Ecuador gagged Assange, the UK Foreign Office intervened to stop the UK parliamentary inquiry DCMS from hearing Assange's testimony via videoconference regarding Russia & Cambridge Analytica. https://t.co/YlMVhDCvfJhttps://t.co/ClNw1hf4WE— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 27, 2019
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals. https://t.co/gXcj1OuLMs #FreeAssange #Artists4Assange pic.twitter.com/Zp1sksEYSd— WikiLeaks Art ⌛ (@WLArtForce) April 25, 2019
@Suzi3D Applebaum HOPE Conference 2010 https://t.co/nyPpFgf055 "FBI agents were planning to detain him after his talk, but organizers slipped him out through an alternative exit in disguise." https://t.co/luFkFXAQYP Assange wanted ~6 weeks before the Sweden "situation" #Unity4J— Air VPN (@airvpn) April 27, 2019
Die USA werfen Julian Assange offiziell Hacking vor, eine Straftat wie gemacht für eine Auslieferung. Sie ermitteln aber auch wegen "Erhalt und Verbreitung geheimer Informationen". Wir veröffentlichen den Brief des US-Justizministeriums. https://t.co/APBNyxEZsm— Andre Meister (@andre_meister) April 25, 2019
Full letter from Tracy Doherty-McCormick, US DoJ prosecutor of #WikiLeaks publisher Julian #Assange, to Daniel Domscheit-Berg published (translated to English): https://t.co/69ActNoAav VERY informative article. #ProtectJulian #NoExtradition #JournalismIsNotACrime. @DefendAssange— Bella Magnani ⏳ (@BellaMagnani) April 25, 2019
It is now undeniable that spies worldwide exploit the credulity of journalists to conceal their violation of human rights. This century will teach a harsh lesson: While terrorism is no existential threat to democracy, our political deference to intelligence agencies might be. https://t.co/duQBFWBa9w— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 25, 2019
"An audacious daylight act of State terrorism... Special Forces of the State were deployed to “snatch” a person in violation of any due process" https://t.co/Iydmfxza6E A good read. #ProtectJulian #Assange #NoExtradition #WikiLeaks #Auspol— Bella Magnani ⏳ (@BellaMagnani) April 25, 2019
#AnzacDay— Mrs. Christine Assange (@AssangeMrs) April 25, 2019
Grandfather
WW1 -Gallipoli
WW2 -Died POW
Uncle Bert
WW2- Leg amputated battlefield/No anaesthetic
Uncle Neville
WW2 Pilot 3rd deg petrol burns
Father
WW11
Intelligence Core
Son
Journalist
Brutally persecuted & tortured for publishing the truth about wars#auspol https://t.co/tL9iQMnXVh
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New @Consortiumnews Series: The Revelations of @WikiLeaks: No. 1—The Video that Put #Assange (and #Manning) in US Crosshairshttps://t.co/pnv6LAIvCV— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) April 24, 2019
Julian Assange's Victory https://t.co/ROgEhyAItQ— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 24, 2019
Urgent international appeal to #FreeOlaBini signed by Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Brian Eno, @profdavidharvey @pamfoundation @evgenymorozov @yanisvaroufakis and many others!#FreeOlaBinihttps://t.co/wS86RiuSsk— Srećko Horvat (@HorvatSrecko) April 23, 2019
UK: Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States, where he would be "at serious risk of human rights violations" says @saliltripathi of @pen_int https://t.co/7Wb4t4i4lG @suigenerisjen @avilarenata @Cevirimiz pic.twitter.com/I1h8RFsAkV— IFEX (@IFEX) April 22, 2019
I have now confirmed that Julian Assange has still not been allowed any visitors — INCLUDING HIS LAWYERS.— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) April 22, 2019
He was arrested 11 days ago! #FreeAssange
"Since [@xychelsea's] testimony is not necessary to the grand jury’s investigation, the likely purpose for her subpoena is to help the prosecutor preview & undermine her potential testimony as a defense witness for a pending trial" https://t.co/fZnKC1GPwE #Assange #NoExtradition— Bella Magnani ⏳ (@BellaMagnani) April 22, 2019
Journalist Glenn Greenwald defends Assange: 'Things that journalists do every single day' https://t.co/bl8m02DBRa— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 22, 2019
Chelsea Manning is a political prisoner - held in prison to torture her into taking part in a political persecution against #Assange and @wikileaks.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 22, 2019
Ignoring this is a crime of complicity.
https://t.co/hMzFqjLTiJ
Hundreds of organizations and personalities from around the world call for the release of Julian Assange: https://t.co/p4YmBaZvro #Solidarity #NoExtradition— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 22, 2019
"Australia has slumped two places in the annual World Press Freedom Index for 2019, amid concerns that investigative journalism is in danger with reporters and whistleblowers facing jail under 'draconian legislation'."#Auspol https://t.co/aVKB1SZCr2— Richard D Boyle (@Richard_D_Boyle) April 23, 2019
Srećko Horvat: ‘The current system is more violent than any revolution’https://t.co/Q8ytPT6XoW— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 21, 2019
The truth about the shameful treatment of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy - as told by Fidel Narvaez, the Embassy's top official from 2012 to 2018: They tried to break him! A truth that I witnessed during my visits https://t.co/tteJEPzE0h— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 21, 2019
#Assange haters, find someone - something else to hate: those hiding their wealth in tax havens, those bombing kids in Yemen, corrupt bankers, those to blame for the Brumadinho crimes against humanity... He is in prison. Because he advanced your right to know.— Renata Avila (@avilarenata) April 20, 2019
You are at home.
“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn pic.twitter.com/aEnfrDHSpu— Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) April 19, 2019
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, was due to visit #JulianAssange at the Embassy. He discusses the illegality of the expulsion, the risk of not receiving a fair trial, the possibility of a death penalty & how this gravely affects us all.https://t.co/TplMzSLtFP— Dame Cathy Vogan (@CathyVoganSPK) April 19, 2019
The ‘Guccifer 2.0’ Gaps in Mueller’s Full Report https://t.co/P5Nl6JhKQ7— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) April 18, 2019
AI Wei Wei (@aiww) on Assange's arrest: "He has the right to stay, as a dissident person, to protect freedom of speech. I think it's a very sad day for Europe, for the West, to arrest someone like Assange."pic.twitter.com/9kX9jqBYEy— Defend Assange Campaign (@DefendAssange) April 18, 2019
Debunking The “Assange Is A Russian Agent” Smears— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 18, 2019
Anyone who believes Assange is a Russian agent is a tinfoil pussyhat-wearing idiot. Excerpt from the upcoming mega-article "Debunking All The Assange Smears".#FreeAssangehttps://t.co/LPBQYHVGn3
The “cumulative severity of the pain and suffering inflicted on Mr. #Assange—both physical and psychological—is in violation of the 1984 Convention Against Torture,” says Dr. @sondracrosby16 who also serves as as PHR Torture Documentation Advisor. https://t.co/FzhCSba65p— Physicians for Human Rights (@P4HR) April 16, 2019
Major UK human rights organisation Liberty (@libertyhq) joins eleven other civil liberties groups to denounce the termination of Assange's political asylum exposing him to the risk of US extradition, and calls on him to be protected. https://t.co/vqkF4qs4d2 pic.twitter.com/ixSLbRUxmC— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 17, 2019
Kristinn Hrafnsson: Editor-in-Chief, @wikileaks: https://t.co/W8ts8GTGkx— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 17, 2019
FBI Affidavit in Assange's Case Shows Government is Criminalizing Publication of Afghanistan War Logs | @kgosztola's vital close-reading https://t.co/HtZFRb6XYz— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 17, 2019
"Garcia Marquez used to say that the journalist should be like a mosquito, which is there to irritate those in power, buzzing incessantly."#OnThisDay in 2014, Nobel Prize laureate Garcia Marquez died. @AJListeningPost looks at his legacy. https://t.co/hkz77uzfmk— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 17, 2019
Julian Assange Suffered Severe Psychological and Physical Harm in Ecuadorian Embassy, Doctors Say | by James Risenhttps://t.co/uK81h08Usy— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 16, 2019
First They Came for Assange by Yanis Varoufakis @ProSyn https://t.co/XIsLtCvpUs— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 16, 2019
"Julian lives in us, through us. And he's fighting for us. So yes, you're all guilty if you don't do something. #Assange already did the risks for you. You're not risking anything" @DiEM_25 member Slavoj #Zizek— DiEM25 (@DiEM_25) April 15, 2019
Sign the petition against his extradition 👉 https://t.co/y5COHjXgMR pic.twitter.com/c5Iuu2b3p7
Lawyers: "Julian Assange is The Man in the High Castle of our time. His contribution may seem superhuman, but he is not. He is a human being, unlawfully deprived of his freedom and family. He fights for our freedom. Let us make his freedom a reality." https://t.co/BUSB0oJKdI— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 15, 2019
You have not retracted the fabricated Nov 27th story on Assange, Dan @yachay_dc. (Manafort met Assange BS). Unless you do so anything you write is worthless and your newspaper is tainted. pic.twitter.com/LgYqn7Pon1— Kristinn Hrafnsson (@khrafnsson) April 15, 2019
The British, Australian, Ecuadorian and US Governments have made an ad about Julian Assange’s arrest and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇴 @Wikileaks #JulianAssange— theJuice (@thejuicemedia) April 15, 2019
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"Technically and legally, Assange is still and Ecuadorian citizen"— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 15, 2019
The government of Ecuador 'suspended' Assange's asylum in order to remove him from the embassy, but legal experts say he remains an Ecuadorian citizen.https://t.co/PEqpZ7D3nK
This video is the most important thing you can watch when it comes to WikiLeaks and Assange: pic.twitter.com/h8liwZsQws— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) April 14, 2019
"The NUJ is shocked & concerned by the actions of the authorities today in relation to Julian Assange... The UK should not be acting on behalf of the Trump administration" said #NUJ assistant general secretary. Full statement - https://t.co/98RC1FOTNP @suigenerisjen @wikileaks— NUJ (@NUJofficial) April 11, 2019
“Any extradition and prosecution by US authorities will be a clear attack on the principles of press freedom”: @IFJGlobal resolution in support of Australia’s union @withMEAA calling on Aus and UK to protect #Assange from US extradition #auspol @MarisePayne @SenatorWong @dfat https://t.co/o1KQRhCHT7— Jen Robinson (@suigenerisjen) April 15, 2019
Dr Aloysia Brooks from @thejustcampaign (against torture) on the content of the @Wikileaks releases that #JulianAssange was charged in relation to. His source @xychelsea was tortured & jailed for revealing this information & Assange faces trial for helping her do so anonymously. pic.twitter.com/U4nMpHCiHs— Dame Cathy Vogan (@CathyVoganSPK) April 14, 2019
"Real journalism is being criminalized by thugs in plain sight. Dissent has become an indulgence. And the British elite has abandoned its last imperial myth: that of fairness and justice."—@johnpilger: https://t.co/TBF5bEOwau #FreeAssange #NoExtradition pic.twitter.com/IM84MpjrMK— Bean🔥 (@SomersetBean) April 14, 2019
MUST READ!— Mrs. Christine Assange (@AssangeMrs) April 15, 2019
Julian gagged for one year!
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This court doc contains Julians OWN WORDS on whats been happening to him!
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EXCLUSIVE! Leaked Assange Court Transcript Sheds Light on US-Backed Ecuadorian Expulsion Plans https://t.co/fRiWck60jN
Great article on the narrative funnel that are justifying Assange's persecution, lawfare, and "Nice Guy Fascism" via @caitozhttps://t.co/XmydMrHPBN pic.twitter.com/hi4UpyLMF7— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 13, 2019
Unanimous decision by the Journalism Faculty at La Plata University of Argentina awards Assange honorary degree (doctor honoris causa), following his arrest for extradition to the US for practicing journalism. https://t.co/jMkTVJVtkQ— Defend Assange Campaign (@DefendAssange) April 13, 2019
4. il capo della Task Force del #Pentagono testimoniò davanti alla corte marziale che nessuno fu ucciso o anche solo ferito. Trovate qui l'articolo del Guardian con la testimonianza [ARCHIVIO, inglese] https://t.co/s50RzIJv7L— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) April 14, 2019
Ecuador's Human Rights Commission: Assange expulsion into the hands of the US is a "de facto extradition" that violates the Ecuadorian Constitution, and international obligation prohibiting refoulement, and violates the Inter-American Court on Human Rights' advisory opinion 25/18 pic.twitter.com/LZGuf1WP69— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 14, 2019
Did you have any idea it was 2 journalists from @guardian, David Leigh & @lukeharding1968, who first published the password to the un-redacted cables in their book: 'Wikileaks: Julian Assange's War on Secrecy' - risking #BloodonTheirHands - while @wikileaks still redacting them? pic.twitter.com/IYqcK1Vxez— Dame Cathy Vogan (@CathyVoganSPK) April 13, 2019
If you knew all the illegal activities spy agencies are involved in you would shut them down. Spies are the scum of humanity. They invade your privacy, lie, deceive, steal, set people up for unjust jail sentences and even murder. Nobody is above the law, right? Govt spies are.— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) April 14, 2019
The sex case against Julian Assange was a CIA plot to dehumanize Julian, to prevent public support and to extradite him to US via Sweden. I read everything about the Swedish case. It’s a sham. There was no unconsensual sex or any abusive conduct. It’s a spy op and nothing else.— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) April 14, 2019
The charges against Julian Assange are an attack on the freedom of the press and on whistle-blowers who hold powerful institutions—including the U.S. government—to account. https://t.co/zu3TTUg4VP— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 13, 2019
The only “ironic” thing here is that a war criminal like Hillary Clinton, whose policies have caused so much death and destruction all across the globe, gets to be on TV chuckling over the arrest of #JulianAssange, a man who helped expose her crimes and corruption to the world. https://t.co/3Ca903s0lp— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) April 13, 2019
Political prisoner Julian Assange is being held in what is known as "Britain's Guantánamo Bay," where the UK government holds "terrorists."— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 13, 2019
This is what the Free World™ does to a journalist who publishes whistleblowers who expose US and NATO war crimes.https://t.co/Ir9cM7IKUn
Thoughtful piece. Even as some commentators say of the Assange charge, "This isn't about journalism," the indictment is written to make it about journalism. https://t.co/Wt3pZTabqq— Scott Shane (@ScottShaneNYT) April 12, 2019
Note: https://t.co/q9lDUo7sSn is not a release, insurance dump, or response to Assange’s arrest. It is the page where published documents are available for bulk download so that people can create mirrors, access publications offline, or use the raw data. It has existed for years.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 13, 2019
World shame! @Lenin took his betrayal to a global extent. He authorized the arrest of Assange in our embassy in London. He violated the Constitution, the international agreements and put at risk the life of a journalist that revealed atrocious crimes. We condemn you Judas— Ricardo Patiño (@RicardoPatinoEC) April 12, 2019
Over the past couple weeks the mainstream media has been shown to be utterly wrong after 2 years of Russiagate conspiracy theories AND they've cheered the arrest & prosecution of a Nobel Prize-nominated journalist.— Lee Camp [Redacted] (@LeeCamp) April 13, 2019
...You guys are really doing a bang up job.
Is Julian Assange not a journalist? Is WikiLeaks not a media organization? If so it is amazing how many journalism awards have been given to a non-journalist and a non-media organisation.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 13, 2019
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"If you extradite a journalist of a third country to the United States for publishing the truth no journalist can be secure, so this must be stopped, this must be resisted in all manner" @khrafnsson @AJEnglish @AJListeningPost https://t.co/mUDK80gZZi— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 13, 2019
Demented stories about Assange are now being spread by president Lenin Moreno and his mob to brush over the disgraceful expulsion. Moreno claims Assange hacked his phone, and Ambassador tells Daily Mail he might have trained the embassy cat to spy. This is surreally idiotic pic.twitter.com/2QDxqzXxT8— Kristinn Hrafnsson (@khrafnsson) April 13, 2019
#JulianAssange is a publisher for truth. He’s done great work on behalf of mankind despite his inhumane treatment. This case is crucial to the survival of our right to know and our essential freedom against #USA and #UK oppression -- and now tyranny!— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) April 11, 2019
It's the very same #CrownProsecutionService which destroyed crucial emails on the case, as my lawyers @estelledehon @suigenerisjen and I unearthed thanks to our #FOIA litigation [Archive] https://t.co/imfiD5V1VZ— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) April 13, 2019
A must-read:— Media Lens (@medialens) April 12, 2019
'Where is the outrage at the lies we have been served up for these past seven years? Where is the contrition at having been gulled for so long? Where is the fury at the most basic press freedom – the right to publish – being trashed?' https://t.co/I5qndMWqoM
Swedish programmer @Olabini in 90 day pre-trial detention in #Equador on hacking charges, bank accounts frozen. Arrested with warrant for Russian - rewritten after 7 hours; denied lawyer and translator; not read his rights; held for 30 hours before charged. Friend of #Assange. https://t.co/4iPRIc1XbD— Disruption Network Lab (@disruptberlin) April 13, 2019
One reason corporate journalists and star pundits care so little about the danger prosecuting Assange poses to journalism is that none of them engage in actual journalism. They are stenographers who know they won’t ever be targeted by the state bc they mostly serve its interests— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) April 12, 2019
English translation of "Press Release on the Detention of Ola Bini," published in Spanish by his lawyers, and detailing the many irregularities in his arrest by the Ecuadorian state https://t.co/tguZL5aIq5 @AndresDelgadoEC @rbonifaz @avilarenata @couragefound #FreeOlaBini— goatsing (@goatsing_again) April 13, 2019
"Isn’t it interesting how an Ecuadorian 'asylum conditions' technicality, a UK bail technicality, and a US whistleblowing technicality all just so happened to converge in a way that just so happens to look exactly the same as imprisoning a journalist for telling the truth?" https://t.co/oxyGbsRJax— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) April 13, 2019
The Guardian, a neoliberal newspaper secretly owned in an offshore tax haven, have decided that the #JulianAssange case is about 'rape'.— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) April 13, 2019
Katrin Axelsson & Lisa Longstaff of WOMEN AGAINST RAPE beg to differ.
"... the pursuit of Assange is political"https://t.co/6QwEhvQtex https://t.co/fGh0zToYe8
Imagine Tony Blair dragged from his multi-million pound Georgian home in Connaught Square, London, in handcuffs. By the standard of Nuremberg, Blair’s “paramount crime” is the deaths of a million Iraqis. Assange’s crime is journalism. https://t.co/GkLDFsxS5o— Nathaniel St. Clair (@NatStClair) April 12, 2019
"So much of what has been reported today about this indictment has been false. Two facts in particular have been utterly distorted by the DOJ and then misreported by numerous media organizations." pic.twitter.com/ILnf8joGwq— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 12, 2019
"The whole idea behind @wikileaks is to take the same technologies that allow the #NSA, #Google, etc, to turn you into a source of data, and turn it against them to make you more opaque and them more transparent. This is why he's paying a price" - @yanisvaroufakis #FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/1Fa4kRDJHQ— DiEM25 (@DiEM_25) April 11, 2019
The arrest of Assange carries a warning for all who, as Oscar Wilde wrote, “sew the seeds of discontent [without which] there would be no advance towards civilisation”. The warning is explicit towards journalists. https://t.co/3ez4smjRAJ— CounterPunch (@NatCounterPunch) April 12, 2019
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange Is “Scandalous” and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. https://t.co/DxDRPz5Y4d pic.twitter.com/LlJxhL8Ufj— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 12, 2019
With the Julian Assange indictment, the Trump administration is launching its boldest attack on press freedom yet. And the #Resistance is cheering it on. https://t.co/4hKUBL6Akw— Jacobin (@jacobinmag) April 12, 2019
IMF agrees to $4.2bn fund for Ecuador https://t.co/2SRfEdVgkH— Financial Times (@FT) February 21, 2019
This is an extremely worrisome development. Now, it is not only journalists and media organizations but also privacy and security advocates who are being persecuted. Ecuador should not be allowed to get away with this. https://t.co/SJ3zaXWyFm— Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) April 12, 2019
There is so much driving the hatred many journalists harbor for Assange. But a huge part of it is professional jealousy: WikiLeaks broke more massive stories than most of these reporters will ever get close to in their lives, all without joining their insular journalism club.— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 12, 2019
Top whistleblower lawyer @JesselynRadack explains how the war on whistleblowers has been a "backdoor to a war on journalists" https://t.co/1i7StTdnVg— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) April 12, 2019
Courage Foundation's briefing to Members of the European Parliament: Why opposing Julian Assange's extradition to the U.S. matters for European democracy.https://t.co/8cdOWw0bV3— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 12, 2019
Amnesty International calls on the UK to refuse to extradite or send in any other manner #JulianAssange to the USA where there is a very real risk that he could face human rights violations. Read our full statement on Julian Assange's arrest here > https://t.co/rsl8ghBtAt— Amnesty International Australia 🕯 (@amnestyOz) April 12, 2019
How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent https://t.co/7ruyU0Gv56— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 12, 2019
Daniel Ellsberg on Assange arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedomhttps://t.co/oFB9ZKfASq— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 12, 2019
— Chris Williamson MP #GTTO (@DerbyChrisW) April 11, 2019
** STATEMENT: Chelsea's legal team responds to today's unsealed indictment. This is further evidence that the government's continued imprisonment of Chelsea for her principled stance against grand jury secrecy is punitive, cruel and unnecessary https://t.co/WZiDuVWHPa— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) April 11, 2019
With the arrest and possible extradition of Julian Assange, the United States comes ever-closer to an authoritarian police state. Assange must be pardoned immediately. Anything else is unacceptable. https://t.co/6EEZCXeUjT— Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) April 11, 2019
Assange has been arrested in relation to a US extradition request for "conspiracy with Chelsea Manning" for publishing Iraq War Logs, Cablegate, Afghan War Logs, precisely the persecution for which he was granted asylum under the 1951 Refugee Convention in 2012. @unhumanrights pic.twitter.com/i0TezO3SdK— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 11, 2019
Exposing this war crime is the reason why Julian Assange and @xychelsea are in prison today.https://t.co/aHpJrqTaoh— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 11, 2019
Note that Ecuador revoked asylum, nationality 24h after we exposed illegal spying on Assange, his lawyers and doctors, and just days before the UN Rapporteurs on Torture and Privacy were set to meet Assange to investigate rights violations in the embassy. https://t.co/vvbZBOgCwL— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 11, 2019
Arresting Julian Assange for publishing is an attack on fundamental press freedom that democracy depends on. Like Chelsea Manning, US empire wants to imprison him for the "crime" of revealing what our government is doing. All who support democracy must resist!— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) April 11, 2019
Wow! Thank you Shadow Home Secretary @HackneyAbbott for that brilliant speech in defence of press freedom and the human rights of Julian #Assange! Watch the full video (5 mins): Abbott Sticking Up for #Assange https://t.co/TvHQAw5dhh #ProtectJulian #NoExtradition @UNHumanRights— Bella Magnani ⏳ (@BellaMagnani) April 11, 2019
.@Wikileaks is a publisher. Charges now brought in connection with its material, or any attempt to extradite #Assange to the United States for prosecution under the deeply flawed cudgel of the Espionage Act 1917, is an attack on all of us. CIJ Statement https://t.co/UKE2OihVow— CIJ (@cijournalism) April 11, 2019
The continued imprisonment of @xychelsea is an utter disgrace. The arrest of Julian Assange represents an extremely dangerous crossing of the rubicon. This is an assault on journalism and a free press. All journalists should stand in fierce opposition.— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) April 11, 2019
As a journalist who has worked as a media partner of @Wikileaks since 2009, It has been so painful to watch Julian #Assange's health completely declining in the last 9 years as a result of confinement with no end in sight, tremendous stress, threats. Absolutely painful— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) April 11, 2019
The greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history, Lenin Moreno, allowed the British police to enter our embassy in London to arrest Assange.— Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) April 11, 2019
Moreno is a corrupt man, but what he has done is a crime that humanity will never forget. https://t.co/XhT51MA6c6
It is confirmed. Scottland Yard detained #Assange not because of a bail breach. As we suspected for so long, UK is a collaborator in the political persecution against a journalist.— Renata Avila (@avilarenata) April 11, 2019
Images of Ecuador's ambassador inviting the UK's secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of--like it or not--award-winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books. Assange's critics may cheer, but this is a dark moment for press freedom. https://t.co/ys1AIdh2FP— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 11, 2019
Important background for journalists covering the arrest of Julian #Assange by Ecuador: the United Nations formally ruled his detention to be arbitrary, a violation of human rights. They have repeatedly issued statements calling for him to walk free--including very recently. pic.twitter.com/fr12rYdWUF— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 11, 2019
Julian is in custody for breaching bail conditions imposed over a warrant that was... rescinded. Anyone else would be fined & released. Except that JA's persecution is all about challenging our right to know about the crimes governments commit in our name.https://t.co/7duQodMPlt— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 11, 2019
The action of the British police in literally dragging Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy and the smashing of international law by the Ecuadorean regime in permitting this barbarity are crimes against the most basic natural justice. This is a warning to all journalists.— John Pilger (@johnpilger) April 11, 2019
Five Eyes is the largest criminal conspiracy in history. This five country deep state operation of US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand colluded to spy on each other’s citizens to bypass domestic surveillance laws. It’s thanks to Edward @Snowden and @Wikileaks that we know.— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) April 8, 2019
2. I asked #ScotlandYard for the #CCTV footage to look for FACTUAL information. The lack of any photo/video surfaced 5 months after the story was published + #ScotlandYard answer to my FOIA bring me to draw the conclusion that it's highly likely that #Guardian's story is baseless— stefania maurizi (@SMaurizi) April 7, 2019
An atrocity against your right to know is unfolding. Julian Assange is about to be thrown into the US supermax gulag. Years of fake news is now whittled down to a simple act of revenge against the person who embarrassed our states by exposing to us crimes committed in our name.— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 6, 2019
WikiLeaks has obtained agreed Assange press strategy— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 5, 2019
1. UK lead
2. Ecuador will say Assange has broken many of its invented "asylum terms"
3. UK will say won't let US kill Assange, due process. Ecuador will pretend that this is a concession and that asylum was for death penalty.
Exactly.— Elizabeth Lea Vos (@ElizabethleaVos) April 5, 2019
For journalists, it is impossible to be neutral on this issue. Either they rise up against the persecution of a free press as embodied by WikiLeaks' accurate reporting, or they damn themselves. https://t.co/MdtfYjNF3H