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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court, London, in January
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange will apply for bail today over fears of a coronavirus outbreak at HMP Belmarsh.
Mr Assange is being held at the high-security prison on an extradition warrant for exposing US war crimes and embarrassing information on the West’s so-called war on terror.
His lawyers announced on Monday that they will tell Westminster Magistrates Court that Mr Assange and other prisoners are in imminent danger from coronavirus spreading through the prison population.
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
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As advertising drains away, newsrooms shrink and local papers disappear, MIKE WAYNE argues that the market model for news is broken – and that public-interest alternatives, rooted in democratic accountability, are more necessary than ever
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