Politicians across Europe want Britain to investigate why the WikiLeaks founder spent five years in jail, writes Mark Curtis.
UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry
Tag: Belmarsh Prison
Assange’s Measure of Justice From the Council of Europe
Marjorie Cohn reports on the Parliamentary Assembly’s “political prisoner” resolution, including its alarm that the C.I.A. “was allegedly planning to poison or even assassinate” the WikiLeaks publisher.
Patrick Lawrence: The State Failed to Break Assange
The WikiLeaks founder consistently displayed strength and endurance as the machinery of two sovereign states attempted to destroy him.
Chris Hedges: You Saved Julian Assange
After 14 years of persecution, the WikiLeaks publisher is free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.
Chris Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
Assange’s ‘Reprieve’ Is Another Lie
The U.S. has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so, writes Jonathan Cook. The real goal is to keep him endlessly locked up.
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Day in Court
Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher — in a final bid on Tuesday to stop his extradition — fought valiantly to poke holes in the case of the prosecution to obtain an appeal.
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Final Appeal
The WikiLeaks publisher will make his final appeal this week to the British courts. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.
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: Visiting Britain’s Political Prisoner
“I think I’m going out of my mind,” Julian Assange told John Pilger at Belmarsh Prison. “No you’re not,” Pilger responded. “Look how you frighten them, how powerful you are.”