Browsing Category: Assange

We Must Defend Assange to Save Free Press from American Despotism

By Nozomi Hayase, Member of The Indicter editorial board. Through the silencing of Assange, the heart of democracy suffocates. On Thursday, the Department of Justice made an unprecedented move to file 17 Espionage Act charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This indictment was what Assange and his legal team have been warning about since 2010 […]

Assange’s Case Has Been ‘Obeying to Geopolitical Interests’

Sputnik spoke about Julian Assange’s case to Professor Emeritus Marcello Ferrada de Noli, the founder of the NGO Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, SWEDHR. * Sputnik: What is behind Ecuador’s move to change its ambassador in the United Kingdom? Why has Moreno taken the step now? Marcello Ferrada de Noli: The background of the Assange case, now maintained for over eight […]

Head of Swedish Bar Association condemns the handling of the Assange case in UK and Sweden as “deplorable”

  In “Assange –a bizarre story– which demands Swedish response”, the Secretary General of the Swedish Bar Association, Ms Anne Ramberg, criticizes prosecutor’s deeds in the pre-investigation of the case, and says that Sweden has a great responsibility for the situation that has arisen. Ms Anne Ramberg statements were published 14 of April in a […]

What the arrest of Assange means for human rights of all

By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, SWEDHR Outside Westminster Magistrates Court, April 11, 2019. Photo by Erik Sanberg, Associate Editor at The Indicter Magazine We have repeatedly expounded the issue of right to existence as the primary of all human rights, and of human rights for all. War […]

Julian Assange moves to force Trump administration to reveal charges against him, and to compel Ecuador to prevent his extradition to the U.S.

MEDIA RELEASE: Lawyers for Julian Assange have filed an urgent application to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), based in Washington D.C., to direct the Trump Administration to unseal the charges it has secretly filed against Mr. Assange. They are also asking the Commission to compel Ecuador to cease its espionage activities against Mr. […]

Assange’s integrity remains unwavering in the face of heightened threats to his health, safety and freedom

  What is the Assange case all about? By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli . It is about the situation of the publisher of an important news outlet, where the information “goal is justice, the method is transparency”. A recently published story in Newsweek, headed “Prosecuting Assange is Essential for Restoring our National Security”, carries […]