An Australian senator and an MP discuss a letter to the U.K. home secretary requesting “an urgent, thorough and independent assessment” of Julian Assange’s health risks, should he be sent to the U.S.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Assange Defence’
Category: Assange extradition
A Radically Different World Since Assange’s Indictment
The Assange case is a centerpiece of an emerging, global challenge to U.S. dominance that did not exist in 2010 when the U.S. began its legal pursuit of the publisher, says Joe Lauria.
WATCH: Saving Julian Assange
An Australian parliamentary group has written to the U.K. home secretary calling for a probe into the risks to Assange’s health should he be extradited.
JOHN PILGER: Justice for Assange Is Justice for All
John Pilger, whose funeral was in London on Tuesday, wrote this account of the extradition trial of his friend Julian Assange in November 2021.
John Pilger: Assange Arrest a Warning From History
Consortium News this month pays tribute to the life and work of John Pilger, an all-time great journalist who died Dec. 30. Today we republish his essay from April 2019 just after Julian Assange’s arrest.
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WATCH: Pilger & Ellsberg — Extradition Extra Edition
We lost both John Pilger and Daniel Ellsberg in 2023. Here they both appear on CN Live! on Sept. 20, 2020 to discuss Julian Assange’s extradition hearing.
WATCH: John Pilger & Roger Waters on CN Live!
The late John Pilger joined Roger Waters on Consortium News‘ CN Live! the day after a British judge denied Julian Assange bail even though two days earlier she had “discharged” him.
WATCH: Mercouris on Pilger
John Pilger was a “brilliant reporter” who used to appear regularly in the British MSM. He never changed. But the mainstream media did.
