Category: Articles
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Joe Lauria speaks at Human Rights Day Assange rally in front of the British Consulate in NYC— Scheerpost.com, Dec. 10, 2022
CN Editor Joe Lauria speaking before the British Consulate in New York Saturday. (Consortium News) By Joe Lauria / Consortium News The following is the transcript of a speech CN Editor Joe Lauria gave to the Human Rights Day Assange rally in front of the British Consulate in New York City on Saturday:Randy [Credico] asked me to do an impersonation…
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Major News Outlets Urge U.S. to Drop Its Charges Against Assange—The NYT, Nov. 29, 2022
In a joint letter, news organizations warned that the indictment of Julian Assange “sets a dangerous precedent” that could chill reporting about matters of national security. By Charlie Savage, Published Nov. 28, 2022Updated Nov. 29, 2022 WASHINGTON — The New York Times and four European news organizations called on the United States government on Monday to drop its…
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Corruption exposed: US meddled in Ecuador’s election, using Julian Assange as bargaining chip—Ben Norton, November 11, 2022
A former minister of Ecuador testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement, backing a millionaire banker for president in exchange for giving up journalist Julian Assange, who had asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. Ecuador’s former energy minister testified that the US…
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Garland Formally Bars Justice Dept. From Seizing Reporters’ Records—The New York Times, Oct. 26, 2022 by Charlie Savage
The rule codifies and expands a policy he issued in 2021, after it came to light that the Trump administration had secretly gone after records of reporters for The Times, The Washington Post and CNN. WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday formally banned the use of subpoenas, warrants or court orders to seize reporters’…
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World-Wide Backing as Parliament Encircled for Assange—Consortium News, Oct. 9, 2022
By Mohamed Elmaazi in London By Mohamed Elmaaziin London Thousands of supporters of Julian Assange descended upon London’s Palace of Westminster to form a human chain around the Houses of Parliament in support of the embattled WikiLeaks publisher on Saturday. Meanwhile, the London action was backed up by rallies in Melbourne, Australia, Washington D.C., San Francisco and other locales.…
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ALL OUT FOR JULIAN ASSANGE ON OCTOBER 8: AN INTERVIEW WITH RANDY CREDICO—Margaret Flowers, Sept. 26, 2022
Clearing the FOG On October 8, people around the world will take action to demand that Julian Assange be freed. Tens of thousands of people have registered to surround the British Parliament on that day. In the United States, people will demonstrate at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. Clearing the FOG speaks with…
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Julian Assange family campaigns for his release while in Mexico with López Obrador—Cody Copeland, Sept. 13, 2022
Courthouse News Service, Thursday, September 15, 2022 MEXICO CITY (CN) — Family members of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held a series of protests and press conferences this week during a visit to Mexico City. John and Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s father and brother, accepted an invitation from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to attend Mexico’s annual…
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JULIAN ASSANGE FILES HIS PERFECTED GROUNDS OF APPEAL —Assange Defen—August 27, 2022
Today, 26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel. The Perfected Grounds of Appeal contain the arguments on which Julian Assange intends to…
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Giant Satirical Billboards – Mounted on Trucks Driven All Over the Nation’s Capital – Are Publicly Shaming Democratic Party Leaders for Their Illegal Persecution of Julian Assange — Steve Brown, Aug. 11, 2022
The billboards are a brainchild of standup-comic-turned-activist Randy Credico. Each one is 15 feet long and circulates around DC’s most famous landmarks, skewering the hypocrisy of Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Gerald Nadler, Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats. By Steve Brown DC residents and tourists – as many as 40,000 a day – are stopping…
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Mexican President Renews Offer to Grant Asylum to Julian Assange in Letter to Biden–Dave DeCamp, July 18, 2022
President Lopez Obrador has called Assange ‘the best journalist of our time’by Dave DeCamp Posted on July 18, 2022Categories NewsTags Assange, Mexico, Wikileaks On Monday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he delivered a letter to President Biden last week where he pleaded for the US not to prosecute Julian Assange and renewed an offer to grant asylum to the WikiLeaks…
