Julian Assange denied permission to appeal against extradition to United States

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A court spokesman said Mr Assange's application did not raise "an arguable point of law". The decision is a major blow to his hopes to avoid extradition.
The Wikileaks founder, 50, is wanted in the US over the publication of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.
His lawyers said he had not ruled out launching a final appeal.
The case will now go back down to District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, the original judge who assessed the US's extradition request.

Home Secretary Priti Patel is then expected to make a final decision. If she approves the extradition, that is the stage when Mr Assange could make his fresh challenge, said his lawyers Birnberg Peirce.

Mr Assange faces an 18-count indictment from the US government, accusing him of conspiring to hack into US military databases to acquire sensitive secret information relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which was then published on the Wikileaks website.
The Wikileaks documents revealed how the US military had killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents during the war in Afghanistan, while leaked Iraq war files showed 66,000 civilians had been killed, and prisoners tortured, by Iraqi forces.
The US says the leaks broke the law and endangered lives, but Mr Assange says the case is politically motivated.

Julian Assange denied permission to appeal against extradition

A Supreme Court spokesman says the Wikileaks founder failed to raise "an arguable point of law".

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Amnesty International:

Authorities in the USA must drop the espionage and all other charges against Julian Assange that relate to his publishing activities as part of his work with Wikileaks. The US government's unrelenting pursuit of Julian Assange for having published disclosed documents that included possible war crimes committed by the US military is nothing short of a full-scale assault on the right to freedom of expression.​

Julian Assange is currently being held at Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK, on the basis of a US extradition request on charges that stem directly from the publication of disclosed documents as part of his work with Wikileaks. Amnesty International strongly opposes any possibility of Julian Assange being extradited or sent in any other manner to the USA. There, he faces a real risk of serious human rights violations including possible detention conditions that would amount to torture and other ill-treatment (such as prolonged solitary confinement). The fact that he was the target of a negative public campaign by US officials at the highest levels undermines his right to be presumed innocent and puts him at risk of an unfair trial.

Julian Assange's publication of disclosed documents as part of his work with Wikileaks should not be punishable as this activity mirrors conduct that investigative journalists undertake regularly in their professional capacity. Prosecuting Julian Assange on these charges could have a chilling effect on the right to freedom of expression, leading journalists to self-censor from fear of prosecution.

USA must drop charges against Julian Assange

uthorities in the USA must drop the espionage and all other charges against Julian Assange that relate to his publishing activities as part of his work with Wikileaks.

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[illautomatic]

Poor bastard. Not without his flaws, but opened the minds of a lot of people who might never have known how monstrous their government is.

Torture imminent. Chelsea Manning protocol on standby.

 

[kriko313]

Unfortunately you only have rights if you are able to back them up. The whole affair shows that the Western mainstream is basically smoke and mirrors.

Even the very concept of "classified documents" is at odds with the very concept of a Republic. How can you make decisions (as a voter), when you are not allowed to know the whole picture?

How can a goverment could be of the people, by the people, for the people...

if the goverment (and corporations) can freely break their own law in the name of "national security" or whatever. They can leverage their brute force while the people are so domesticated they don't know that they should like care about their own destinies or something.

The saddest part is that beside providing a chilling example for the would be whistleblowers (warning the system about itself??) is the fact that the old gen-x guys were the last who had that live-let-live attitude when it comes to technology. Millenials and zoomers are selected for total ideologial commitment and a hatred of the values of the majority.

Now you have people who think that people who are not agreeing to the corporate line should be destroyed. Like literally.

Home Secretary Priti Patel

What a nice British name. Indians are the executors of all NWO agendas.

 

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