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Assange: Will the shocking revelations of US criminality shift public opinion?
Today, London’s Royal Courts of Justice will provide the backdrop for a fresh attempt to drag Julian Assange before a US judge and face a life sentence for journalism — TIM DAWSON previews the case
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
CLAIR DOBBIN QC and James Lewis QC, who represent the US, are ferocious advocates. Their appeal will call into question the specialisations, motivations and reputations of expert witnesses. At an earlier hearing, the US team successfully argued that Professor Michael Kopelman’s failure to disclose facts about Assange’s family meant that his entire testimony was open to question — despite the eminent psychiatrist having a reasonable explanation for his omission.
The courtroom battle will be brutal, vicious and public. What has become clear in recent days, however, is that there is an equally fierce dispute going on elsewhere that could have an even greater impact on Assange’s future. It is taking place behind closed doors, however.
Assange is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London, awaiting the outcome of legal manoeuvres to prosecute him in the US for charges relating to classified files that Wikileaks published in 2010. After five weeks of hearings in 2020, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser dismissed the US application to extradite the Australian. Her grounds were that the US penal regime was such that it would increase the likelihood of Assange taking his own life, which she deemed “oppressive.” It is this judgement the US is appealing.
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