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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is to travel to Paris later this month for a state visit, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed this weekend on social networks. “Partners around the world, save the date of June 22 and 23 in Paris. The world needs a green economy that leaves no one behind. Together…

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…

More than 300 Doctors For Assange have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to not make the U.K. “complicit in the slow-motion execution” of Julian Assange. By Doctors for Assange / Consortium News Ahead of the U.K. Home Secretary’s decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, a group of more than 300…

UPDATED: The case of the imprisoned publisher of WikiLeaks now moves to the Home Secretary Priti Patel. Assange’s lawyers are set to cross appeal, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium News Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, has been denied his petition to appeal the High Court’s decision to extradite him to the United States, where he…

‘I am relieved that reason prevailed and I hope there will be no further interference with our marriage’, Assange said Stuti Mishra Incarcerated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to marry his partner Stella Moris at Belmarsh prison, a month after they applied to do so. The couple received permission to marry inside…

In the case against former United Kingdom diplomat-turned whistleblower Craig Murray, the UK supreme court refused to hear Murray’s appeal. He will now surrender himself to police for an eight-month prison sentence. The High Court in Edinburgh in Scotland convicted Murray of contempt on March 25 after concluding that he published several blog posts, which…

Don‘t Extradite Assange A coalition of UK members of parliament from 5 different parties have appealed in an open letter to US President Joe Biden to drop the politically motivated charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. The letter states: “We appeal to you to drop this prosecution, an act that would be a clarion call…

byJessica Corbett, staff writer 13 Comments John Shipton, the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, poses for a photograph at the Old Bailey Court in London on September 8, 2020. (Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images) The father and brother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are planning a nationwide tour of the United States next…