The day dream about Anthony Albanese doing the right thing has reached its limits. As prime minister he has not fought to bring home an Australian who is both the embodiment of courage and the victim of a great, vindictive injustice.
Despite private and public requests for diplomatic assistance for the WikiLeaks publisher, Canberra’s policy — shown by FOI documents — has been one of complicit inactivity in the face of his persecution, reports Kellie Tranter.
“I think there are some people within the U.S. and U.K. governments who understand how cancerous this whole affair is,” the wife of the imprisoned publisher tells Matt Kennard in a wide-ranging interview.
Julian and Stella Assange were married yesterday at Belmarsh Prison in London. Here are the wedding videos.
John Shipton also told a French interview program that too much focus was on Julian Assange and not enough on the crimes WikiLeaks has revealed.
The imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher’s life in Belmarsh illuminates the ugly neoliberal world the profiteers have created, writes Helen Mercer.
In the land of Magna Carta this disgraceful case ought to have been hurled out of court long ago.
The Yahoo! News revelations will put even more mental stress on the WikiLeaks publisher, writes Marjorie Cohn.
The single-minded U.S. pursuit of Julian Assange as Britain proposes changes to its official secrets law shows the fierce determination of both governments to conceal their secrets, writes Alexander Mercouris.
With the great transparency advocate locked up in London, Tareq Haddad says the recent U.K.-U.S. affirmation of independent media stands hollow.
