The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has written to the U.S. president asking him to grant a pardon to the imprisoned publisher.
Melzer Asks Trump to Pardon Assange
Category: WikiLeaks
VIPS MEMO: To Biden: Don’t Be Suckered on Russia
VIPS hopes President-elect Joe Biden will avoid the mousetrap being laid for him to make it more difficult for his administration to deal in a sensible way with Russia.
Judgement Day for Julian Assange is January 4. Here’s How You Can Help Us Cover It.
Consortium News and CN Live! have big plans to continue covering the Media Trial of the Century.
WATCH: CN Live!—A Pardon For Assange
Australian member of Parliament George Christensen talks about his appeal to President Donald Trump and discusses the possibilities of a presidential pardon for the WikiLeaks publisher. Watch the replay.
A Video Message From the Editor
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Top UN Anti-Torture Official Again Urges Assange’s Release
The WikiLeaks founder’s “prolonged solitary confinement in a high security prison is neither necessary nor proportionate,” said Nils Melzer on Tuesday.
WATCH: Assange–The Right to a Fair Trial?
POSTPONED: Andy Worthington & Thomas Durkin, witnesses at Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, to discus his right to a fair trial in a CN Live! simulcast of a Don’t Extradite Assange production, which has been postponed.
WATCH: ‘A Secret Australia: Revealed By WikiLeaks Exposés’
Watch the book launch of A Secret Australia: Revealed By WikiLeaks Exposés, essays written by 18 prominent Australians.
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
