Wikileaks helped end secret US killings, Assange extradition hearing is told
A mobile advertising board with a "Don't Extradite Assange" message outside the Old Bailey, London
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
REVELATIONS published by Wikileaks helped to end a secret US assassination programme and freed unlawfully detained prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the Julian Assange extradition hearing was told today.
Giving evidence during the second day of the Wikileaks founder’s hearing at the Old Bailey, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith also said that the site’s content had helped to stop drone strikes in Pakistan and provided evidence currently being investigated by the International Criminal Court.
The lawyer, who has represented numerous Guantanamo Bay prisoners, said that the leaked documents had enabled him to win legal actions on behalf of “a number of innocent people in detention” at the US-run detention camp.
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