By Nozomi Hayase, PhD, Member of The Indicter‘s Editorial Board. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in solitary confinement inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he was granted asylum in 2012 against the threat of extradition to the United States for his publishing activities. In recent months, Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno, under pressure from the […]
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Why Americans Need to Defend Julian Assange’s Freedom
Criminalizing the act of publishing through the Espionage Act destroys the First Amendment as the guardian of democracy. By Nozomi Hayase, PhD, Member of The Indicter‘s Editorial Board. Over 50 years ago, in his letter from the Birmingham Jail, addressing a struggle of the civil right era, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We will have […]
Court Grants Julian Assange Freedom Just As U.S. Ramps Up Claims
By Andrew Kreig J.D., M.S.L., attorney and journalist. Director of JIP, Member of the Editorial Board, and Associate Editor at The Indicter Magazine. Julian Assange, center, at Ecuador’s Embassy (Photo Collage by The Indicter Magazine) A major international human rights body has ordered the United Kingdom to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for safe passage […]
Peace Is A Revolutionary Force
By Nozomi Hayase, Ph.D. Member of The Indicter Editorial Board. “The most disciplined Gandhian project since Gandhi” (J. Assange on Catalonia). As Trump’s dangerous move on Iran’s nuclear deal and his provocative reaction to North Korea undercut diplomacy, tension is rising for World War III. Discord in the international community has been amplified in conflicts […]
UK Threaten Assange As Sweden Withdraw Accusations
By Andrew Kreig, J.D., M.S.L., attorney and journalist. Member of the Editorial Board, and Associate Editor of The Indicter Magazine. British authorities threatened WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with arrest on a bond-jumping charge last week after their Swedish counterparts gave up trying to investigate Assange on what appears to have been a dubious series of […]
Joint us in signing Open Letter to President Trump: Close investigation on WikiLeaks, drop any charges against Assange
Open Letter to President Trump: Dear President Trump, We are journalists, activists and citizens from the United States and around the world who care about press freedom and are writing to you in response to the latest threat of prosecution against WikiLeaks for its journalistic work. We ask you to immediately close the Grand Jury […]
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
By Nozomi Hayase PhD. Member of The Indicter Editorial Board. US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher, whose principle is aligned with the U.S. Constitution, is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy. The Justice Department […]
Declaración de Swedish Swedish Professors & Doctors For Human Rights (SWEDHR) for Human Rights sobre el asilo de Ecuador a Julián Assange
Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, PhD. Presidente de la organización Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, SWEDHR. English summary: The real political reasons why Sweden and UK illegally detain Julian Assange As widely known, the panel of the United Nations [UNGWAD] who thoroughly examined the case of the detention of Mr Assange, concluded [1] that the […]
Russia newspaper Izvestia examines Lasso’s declarations on Assange’s asylum
By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli. The Indicter’s Editor-in-Chief. This article resumes the opinion of several human rights activists, academics and lawyers –as appeared in a recent report published by Izvestia, a leading Russian newspaper– concerning declarations by the Ecuadorian presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso threatening with the eviction of political refugee Julian Assange from the […]
New Analysis of Swedish Police Report Confirms Julian Assange’s Version in Sweden’s case
by Celia Farber, B.A. Editor’s Note: Author and investigative reporter Celia Farber has prepared for publication in The Indicter, an updated analysis of the Swedish Assange case. The in-depth analysis concludes that the police reports confirm Julian Assange’s testimony, as given to the prosecutor in her questioning conducted at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. It has […]