Democracy Now – gofullday.com https://www.gofullday.com Environmental Trending Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:08:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling on Julian Assange and the Espionage Act https://www.gofullday.com/yt/cia-whistleblower-jeffrey-sterling-on-julian-assange-and-the-espionage-act/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:08:34 +0000 https://gofullday.com/yt/cia-whistleblower-jeffrey-sterling-on-julian-assange-and-the-espionage-act/

CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling was convicted in “a travesty of a trial” for violating the Espionage Act. He says Julian Assange cannot hope to have a fair hearing in the U.S. criminal justice system if he is prosecuted under the same law for publishing classified documents that exposed war crimes.

Sterling was among the witnesses who spoke in Assange’s defense at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington on January 20, 2023. The event is named after the Belmarsh prison in London, where Assange has languished for years while fighting extradition to the U.S.

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]]> Australian Parliament Calls for U.S. to Drop Case Against Julian Assange Ahead of U.K. Court Hearing https://www.gofullday.com/yt/australian-parliament-calls-for-u-s-to-drop-case-against-julian-assange-ahead-of-u-k-court-hearing/ Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:28:13 +0000 https://gofullday.com/yt/australian-parliament-calls-for-u-s-to-drop-case-against-julian-assange-ahead-of-u-k-court-hearing/

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Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to find out next week whether he has exhausted opportunities to avoid extradition to the United States, where he faces life in prison for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. A two-day hearing before the British High Court of Justice is scheduled to take place in London on Tuesday and Wednesday. He has been held in London’s infamous Belmarsh Prison since 2019 awaiting his possible extradition. Jennifer Robinson, an Australian human rights attorney and legal adviser to Assange and WikiLeaks, discusses public and governmental support for Assange in Australia, where an “unprecedented” parliamentary resolution was passed Wednesday calling for Assange’s release. Robinson calls the charges against Assange a “dangerous precedent for free speech” and says, “It’s time that the United States respects our special relationship and listens to the calls of the Australian people and our Parliament and our government and drops this case.”

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