With the British state’s failure to provide basic medical care and safety to inmates, and its often punitive and cruel policies, the disease of disdain for human life and rule of law has now become pandemic, writes Nozomi Hayase.
Category: Legal
RAY McGOVERN: What if Ignored Covid-19 Warnings Had Been Leaked to WikiLeaks?
Julian Assange was arrested one year ago on Saturday and sent to Belmarsh Prison where he still languishes, a symbol of the Empire’s oppression.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Assange Not Sick With Covid-19, But Says Many in Belmarsh Are
In a phone conversation with Vaughan Smith, Julian Assange, apparently uninfected, says the virus is “ripping through” Belmarsh prison and that he spends 30 minutes a day in a crowded prison yard.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Julian & Lockdown Injustice
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser has insisted throughout the process that the WikiLeaks publisher be caged and monitored, writes Binoy Kampmark.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: The Deadly Vanessa Baraitser
Even before Covid-19 began sweeping through Belmarsh Prison, Craig Murray thought the British government was seeking Assange’s death in jail. Now he finds the evidence overwhelming.
‘Collateral Murder’ and the My Lai Massacre
CN Live! Documentary: ‘The Extradition of Julian Assange’
DNC Fraud Lawsuit Plaintiffs Petition Supreme Court
Lawyers are highlighting the High Court’s role in previously deciding on Jim-Crow era practices that excluded African-Americans from participating in Democratic primaries in the South, reports Elizabeth Vos.
COVID-19: DOJ Seeks to Exploit Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely
Trump’s Department of Justice is asking Congress to allow the attorney general to indefinitely detain people without trial in violation of the constitutional right of habeas corpus, writes Marjorie Cohn.