Former British diplomat Craig Murray was in the public gallery at Old Bailey for Julian Assange’s hearing and here is his report on Tuesday’s events.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Craig Murray: Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing—Day Two
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WATCH: CN Live! Daily Video Report on the Assange Hearing–Day 2
Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria presents a live 10-minute report every night during the extradition hearing. Here is his recap of the second day’s dramatic events.
PEPE ESCOBAR: Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound
He is being punished not for stealing fire – but for exposing power under the light of truth and provoking the god of Exceptionalism.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Craig Murray: Your Man in the Public Gallery–Day One
Here is Craig Murray’s report on the first day of the resumption of Julian Assange’s hearing, the fifth day overall continuing from the start of the substantive hearing in February.
DAY ONE OF ASSANGE HEARING: Dramatic Opening Day; First Witness Testifies After Judge Denies Adjournment to January
The dramatic opening day of Assange’s extradition hearing saw U.S. shift from espionage to its superseding indictment as Vanessa Baraitser rejected a defense bid to excise the evidence and adjourn the case to January.
WATCH: CN Live! Daily Video Report on the Assange Hearing–Day 1
Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria presents a live 10-minute report every night during the extradition hearing. Here is his recap of the first day’s dramatic events.
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
The extradition hearing beginning this week is the final act of an Anglo-American campaign to bury Julian Assange. It is not due process. It is due revenge, said John Pilger in a speech Monday outside the court building.
EDITORIAL: A Trial Begins in London
Judging by the first week of hearings in February, it doesn’t seem to be important whatever the prosecution says or does, or how the defense responds. The decision already appears to have been made.
An Historic Setting for Assange’s Case
Old Bailey, built on the site of a medieval prison, has been the scene of numerous high-profile cases since the 17th century. Assange’s historic case will add to its legacy.
WATCH: CN Live! —‘The Media Trial of the Century’
Watch the CN Live! preview show on the resumption of the extradition hearing of imprisoned WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange at Old Bailey in London.