‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder to be freed in deal with US

Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange boards a plane at a location given as London, UK, in this still image from video released JUNE 25, 2024 ["@wikileaks" via X/Handout via Reuters]

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the United Kingdom and is set to travel home to Australia after he pleads guilty to a single charge of breaching the espionage law in the United States.

Assange, 52, will plead guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to a filing in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

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He was freed from the UK’s high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday and taken to the airport whre he flew out of the country. Assange will appear at a court in Saipan, a US Pacific territory at 9am on Wednesday (23:00 GMT on Tuesday) where he will be sentenced to 62 months of time already served.

“Julian Assange is free,” Wikileaks said in a statement posted on X.

“He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stanstead airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.”

Julian Assange Está a Ser Assassinado

Julian Assange Está a Ser Assassinado 

Junho 1, 2019

Julian Assange Está a Ser Assassinado

O governo britânico criminoso concordou  assassinar Julian Assange, a mando de Washington, o seu mentor perverso.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/no_author/the-unrelenting-state/ 

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O Estado implacável

Por Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/no_author/the-unrelenting-state/

Junho 1, 2019

Estamos seriamente preocupados com a condição de saúde de Julian Assange. Ontem, estava demasiado doente para poder comparecer perante o tribunal e o seu advogado sueco, Per Samuelson, encontrou-o num estado em que Julian estava incapaz de estabelecer uma conversa e dar instruções. Há sintomas físicos muito marcados, particularmente uma perda rápida de peso, e tememos que não estejam a ser efectuados esforços, genuínos e suficientes, para a obtenção de um diagnóstico, a fim de  determinar a verdadeira causa.

Durante o ano passado, Julian foi mantido na Embaixada do Equador em condições precárias, muito restritas e cada vez mais opressivas e a sua saúde já estava a deteriorar-se de forma alarmante, antes da sua expulsão e prisão. Uma série de condições, incluindo abcessos dentários, que pode ter consequências muito graves se não forem tratados durante muito tempo e a recusa contínua do governo britânico e, mais tarde, dos equatorianos, de permitir o acesso a cuidados de saúde adequados a um asilado político, foi uma negação cruel e deliberada de direitos humanos básicos.

Confesso que senti um certo alívio pessoal após a sua prisão, porque, pelo menos agora ele receberia tratamento médico adequado. No entanto, percebe-se agora, não haver qualquer intenção de fornecê-lo e, de facto, desde que ele esteve em Belmarsh, os problemas de saúde exacerbaram-se. Testemunhei a cumplicidade do Estado britânico em casos de tortura para saber que esta atitude pode significar mais do que somente uma consequência de negligência não intencional. É extremamente alarmante constatar que o homem mais lúcido que eu conheço, já não é capaz de manter, agora, uma conversa racional.

Não há nenhuma razão aceitável para que Assange precise ser mantido numa instalação de alta segurança destinada a terroristas e infractores violentos. Estamos a ver o motivo por trás da sua longa detenção sem precedentes, para esquivar-se à fiança da polícia quando pediu asilo político. Como prisioneiro condenado, Assange pode ser mantido num regime pior do que se estivesse apenas em prisão preventiva, devido aos procedimentos de extradição. Mesmo que ele estivesse saudável, o acesso aos seus advogados é extremamente restrito e, para um homem que enfrenta grandes processos legais no Reino Unido, nos EUA e na Suécia, é impossível que os seus advogados tenham tempo suficiente para preparar, juntamente com ele, os seus processos adequadamente. Assange está sob as mesmas restrições que são impostas a um condenado. Claro que sabemos, pelo facto de que, três horas após ter sido arrastado da Embaixada do Equador, ele ter sido condenado e sentenciado a uma longa pena de prisão, que o Estado não tem intenção de que os seus advogados se possam preparar.

Perguntei antes e faço-o, agora, novamente: Se fosse uma editora dissidente na Rússia, o que é que a classe política e a comunicação mediática do Reino Unido estariam a dizer sobre ele ter sido arrastado por polícias armados, condenado e sentenciado a prisão por um Juiz sem júri, três horas depois, após uma farsa de um "julgamento" durante o qual o Juiz o insultou e chamou de “narcisista” antes de Assange dizer qualquer coisa em sua defesa? A comunicação mediática ocidental estaria em pé de guerra, se esse caso acontecesse na Rússia. Aqui, eles congratulam-se com esses factos.

A seguir está uma foto de Julian na Embaixada em tempos mais felizes, durante a presidência de Correa, com um grupo de pessoas verdadeiramente surpreendente e forte, cada uma delas com histórias, as quais podemos seguir e com elas aprender:

Da esquerda para a direita: Thomas Drake, Coleen Rowley, Julian Assange Elizabeth Murray, Ray McGovern, Nadira, Ann Wright 

Devo acrescentar que,  juntamente com outros dois amigos íntimos,  estou pessoalmente, a tentar ver Julian Assange, mas, como é óbvio, o acesso é extremamente difícil.

Os objectos pessoais de Julian foram apreendidos pelos equatorianos para serem entregues ao governo dos EUA. Incluem não só os computadores, mas os seus documentos legais e médicos. Este é mais um exemplo de uma acção estatal completamente ilegal contra ele. Além do mais, qualquer transferência deve envolver o material roubado que transita fisicamente em Londres, e o governo britânico não está a tomar medidas para impedi-lo, o que é mais um dos múltiplos sinais do grau de coordenação governamental internacional por trás da frágil pretensão de uma acção judicial independente.

Julian está preso há, pelo menos, mais de cinco meses, mesmo com liberdade condicional (que provavelmente vão encontrar uma desculpa para não conceder). Depois, será mantido em prisão preventiva. Portanto, não há necessidade de pressa. A recusa do tribunal sueco, de atrasar uma audiência sobre um possível mandado de extradição, para permitir que Julian se recupere para poder instruir o advogado e o breve adiamento da audiência de extradição dos EUA em Londres, com a intimação que pode ser mantido dentro da prisão de Belmarsh, se Julian estiver demasiado doente para se deslocar, são exemplos de uma pressa totalmente desacostumada e desnecessária, na maneira como o caso está a prosseguir. Os moinhos de Deus moem devagar; os do Diabo parecem girar a alta velocidade.

Finalmente, para os que ainda acreditam que as acções judiciais contra Julian,  não só na Suécia, são de alguma forma motivadas por uma preocupação em que a justiça seja feita, particularmente os casos de justiça referente a mulheres violadas, peço-lhes que leiam este excelente relato de Jonathan Cook. Quanto ao resumo da série verdadeiramente impressionante de abusos legais por parte dos Estados contra Assange, que a comunicação mediática empresarial e estatal distorceu e escondeu deliberadamente durante uma década, o mesmo não pode ser melhorado.

Julian Assange Is Being Murdered

Julian Assange Is Being Murdered

June 1, 2019

Julian Assange Is Being Murdered

The criminal British government has agreed to assassinate Julian Assange for its criminal Washington master

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/06/no_author/the-unrelenting-state/ 

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The Unrelenting State

By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk

June 1, 2019

We are seriously worried about the condition of Julian Assange. He was too unwell to appear in court yesterday, and his Swedish lawyer, Per Samuelson, found him in a state where he was unable to conduct a conversation and give instructions. There are very definite physical symptoms, particularly rapid weight loss, and we are not satisfied that genuine and sufficient diagnostic efforts are being made to determine the underlying cause.

Julian had been held for the last year in poor, highly confining and increasingly oppressive conditions in the Ecuadorean Embassy and his health was already deteriorating alarmingly before his expulsion and arrest. A number of conditions, including dental abcesses, can have very serious consequences if long term untreated, and the continual refusal by the British government and latterly the Ecuadoreans to permit him access to adequate healthcare while a political asylee was a callous denial of basic human rights.

I confess to feeling an amount of personal relief after his arrest that at least he would now get proper medical treatment. However there now seems to be no intention to provide that and indeed since he has been in Belmarsh his health problems have accelerated. I witnessed enough of the British state’s complicity in torture to know that this may be more than just the consequence of unintended neglect. That the most lucid man I know is now not capable of having a rational conversation is extremely alarming.

There is no rational reason that Assange needs to be kept in a high security facility for terrorists and violent offenders. We are seeing the motive behind his unprecedented lengthy imprisonment for jumping police bail when he entered political asylum. As a convicted prisoner, Assange can be kept in a worse regime than if he were merely on remand for his extradition proceedings. In particular, his access to his lawyers is extremely restricted and for a man facing major legal proceedings in the UK, USA and Sweden it is impossible, even were he healthy, for his lawyers to have sufficient time with him adequately to prepare his cases while he is under the restrictions placed on a convict. Of course we know from the fact that, within three hours of being dragged from the Ecuadorean Embassy, he was already convicted and sentenced to a lengthy prison term, that the state has no intention that his lawyers should be able to prepare.

I have asked before and I ask again. If this were a dissident publisher in Russia, what would the UK political and media class be saying about his being dragged out by armed police, and convicted and sentenced to jail by a judge without a jury, just three hours later, after a farce of a “trial” in which the judge insulted him and called him a “narcissist” before he had said anything in his defence? The Western media would be up in arms if that happened in Russia. Here, they cheer it on.

Below is a photo of Julian in the Embassy in happier times, during the Correa Presidency, with a truly amazing and strong group of people, every one of whose stories we can follow and learn from:

Left to Right: Thomas Drake, Coleen Rowley, Julian Assange, Elizabeth Murray, Ray McGovern, Nadira, Ann Wright

I should add that I am currently trying to see Julian personally with two other close friends, but obviously access is extremely difficult.

 Julian’s personal possessions have been seized by the Ecuadoreans to be given to the US government. These include not only computers but his legal and medical papers. This is yet another example of completely illegal state action against him. Furthermore, any transfer must involve the stolen material physically transiting London, and the British government is taking no steps to prevent that, which is yet another of multiple signs of the degree of international governmental coordination behind the flimsy pretence of independent judicial action.

Julian is imprisoned for at least another five months, even with parole (which they will probably find an excuse not to grant). After that he will be held further on remand. There is therefore no need for rush. The refusal of the Swedish court to delay a hearing on a potential extradition warrant at all, to allow Julian to recover to the extent he can instruct his lawyer, and the very brief postponement of the US extradition hearing in London, with the intimation it may be held inside Belmarsh prison if Julian is too unwell to move, are both examples of an entirely unaccustomed and unnecessary haste with which the case is being rushed forward. The mills of God grind slowly; those of the Devil seem to spin dangerously fast.

Finally, for those who still believe that actions against Julian, particularly but not only in Sweden, are in any way motivated by a concern for justice, particularly justice for violated women, I do urge you to read this excellent account by Jonathan Cook. As a summary of the truly breathtaking series of legal abuses by states against Assange, that the corporate and state media has been deliberately distorting and hiding for a decade, it cannot be bettered.

Reprinted with the author’s permission.

Copyright © 2019 Craig Murray

Petition on JULIAN ASSANGE Passes 97,000 signatures and Notice 33 delivered to Government

Petition Passes 97,000 signatures and Notice 33 delivered to Government

Phillip Adams

Brisbane, Australia

APR 17, 2019 — 

Hi All,

I hope you are all well.

First of all thankyou all for joining and coming togther in his petition. Please reshare and promote this petition link: http://chng.it/KLMLppvYks I need your help to reshare this petition far and wide. I am often blocked and censored after I deliver these notice to government

This petition is increasing rapidly and wil soon pass 100,000 signatures, we are currently at 97,000 +The past few days have seen progress towards the very outcome we had come together in this petition to prevent. The forcible removal of Julian Assange from his political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy and into British Police custody with an extradition to the USA now appearing front a centre.

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It is my considered opinion that the events in London are very much connected to the progress of this petitioned action. FYI on Feb, 12 we attempted to Table this Petition in the Australian Parliament's Upper house, known as the Senate. The Petition Tabling documentation comprising 1,375 page file was prepared by myself and delivered to Tasmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish Wilson, who offered o carry our petition into and onto the parliamentary register. However our attempts were blocked out by time over runs. But we did rest so we gave the go ahead to have the petition presented and discussed  in the  Feb. 21 Aust. Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Senate Estimates  session. The session closed withthe Minister for Foreign Affairs Ms Marise payne comitting to inquire in relation to the USA extradition  matter.

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE PETITION: NOTICE 27

PETITION UPDATE

I need your help to Reshare, Retweet & promote the Petition & Notice 27 was delivered

Phillip Adams

Brisbane, Australia

JAN 12, 2019 — 

Hi All,

I hope you are all well.

Gather around people, we are many, many people now, together on this mission to Free Julian Assange. We are the change agents to right this wrong.

Let us work together to ramp the signature rate right up. Together we are a massive force. To increase the numbers is very very easy if we work together and as a team.

Please reshare and retweet and just push this extremely hard people. What is at stake here not only the life of Julian Assange, but it is our freedom and access to knowledge and facts.

Think of all the great movements of history and what it took back then to change and cause revolutionary change. Now think of what it will take to build his petition to have real power. All it takes is YOU, ME and ALL of US together, literally pressing buttons or touching screens only. How easy is that? No water cannons, no tear gas, no batons. Just a cup of coffee and pressing buttons. Pretty Easy for a Revolution if you ask me. Lol 

Please reshare the petition link and let's get the number increasing at an increasing rate. Use this link to promote http://chng.it/yQpsHnGbJ5 or if you prefer your own personalised link that mentions you to your friends as the promoter then follow these instructions.

How to get the personalised link to promote this petition

If you wish a link for the petition that is specifically your own and refers to your name as promoting it "Help (Your name) Free Assange...", then if already a signatory, go to the petition site and follow the prompts to promote /reshare the petition and click "more options" then click "email" and you will have your own link that will mention you to the people clicking on it  "eg. Help "Phillip" or "Jan" etc. the petition will generate your own personal promotion link, via the "email" reshare/promotion function. that link that is specific to any individual signatory can be pasted into any social media platform or email to be your own name as the promoter of the petition.

To check after you have your own link, go to the petition site via a different web browser (different to the one you signed thru, because the same pathway makes the petition assume an already signed person is returning and will not give you the signing page). To test what your link prompts access the petition site via a different web browser pathway and paste your own link in. By different web browser I mean like GoogleChrome, Mozilla, Vivaldi, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Bing, just different to the one you originally signed through etc . Or use a different device using your own link and you will see how it appears to the people who use your link to sign. Your name will be headlined as a promoter of the, because the petition is everyone's/the people's. It is your petition, it is the people petition.

It really is no difficult to make an even greater difference to this terrible situation. It really is extremely easy and convenient and to be honest to promote this petition for all of us. You all know I have put in 100's of hours into this, I am asking you to pitch in now and seriously pitch in some time and effort. I need more of your great help to free a hero.

Twitter is very effective, Facebook is OK as well. Instagram, and all others. Just expose the petition in different circles. 

By the way I did also Deliver Petition Notice 27, for over 27,000 to the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and all 226 Parliamentarians that make up the entire Australian Government. I have pasted in the script below.

Love to you All

Phil

-----------Script from Notice 27 pasted below this line--------------

Free Julian Assange Petition: Notice 27

Over 27,001 signatures on 11th Jan. 2019

Petition To:    The Hon. Marise Payne, Senator 

                      Minister for Foreign Affairs

Petition To:    The Hon. Scott Morrison, MP

                      Prime Minister of Australia

cc                    All Hon. Senators and MP’s

Dear Ms Marise Payne,                                                        

There is no legitimate basis for the arbitrary detention and or the threat of extradition to the USA for Julian Assange, who is an Australian Citizen and Journalist. The Australian Government must immediately secure his freedom by removing the threat of extradition to the USA on principals that contradict the legal functioning of a free and fair Democracy.

GENEVA (21 December 2018) “UN Office of High Commissioner experts urge UK to honour rights obligations and let Mr. Julian Assange leave Ecuador embassy in London freely”. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24042&LangID=E

On Dec. 31, 2018, President Trump’s Lawyer, Rudy Giuliani in reference to Julian Assange said;

“It’s a First Amendment issue….Once it gets to the media publication they can publish it, they can publish it for the basis of informing people. You can’t put Assange in a different position, now he was a guy that communicated. We may not like what he communicates but he was a media facility, he was putting that information out, every news station grabbed it and published it….No press person or person disseminating for the purposes of informing did anything wrong.” Source; https://www.facebook.com/foxandfriends/videos/806787466324593/ Watch from 8 min. mark of video.

Find below 19 points that contains additional facts to assist the Australian Government to secure a guarantee of No Extradition to the USA on behalf of over 27,000 signatories and International Law.

Free Julian Assange, before it's too late.

Special Petition Notice 16; "TheProject" over 16,000 signatures

Phillip Adams

Brisbane, Australia

NOV 25, 2018 — 

Hi All,

I hope you are all well.

The petition is moving very well and securing excellent numbers.

We are really making an impact in more ways than 1. The spin off from this petition are not only being felt in houses of government but also in media rooms and celebrity circles. This petition and our demands to free Julian Assange will become a Global Movement. there is no turning back now. We will free Julian Assange.

We not only have the power of Democracy on our side, but honestly and in my opinion we also have the Law on our side.

Tonight and in a little under 2 hours our great champion of the Free Julian Assange Movement Pamela Anderson will be on Chanel 10 Australia's program "The Project". That is why I delivered th especial notice on a Sunday. The Project 6:30pm AEST 25-11-2018 Chanel 10 Australia (Brisbane Australian Time)

I personally will watch that program, because all PR from Pamela Anderson is Good PR  towards Freeing Julian Assange.

Pasted below is the script from Special Petition Notice 16 'The Project'