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CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou discussed the Assange case with Sunday Wire host Patrick Henningsen

This week, the US Justice Department delivered a formal extradition request for Julian Assange to UK officials, which means any additional US charges against him beyond the 18-count indictment filed last month may be unlikely now. SUNDAY WIRE host Patrick Henningsen [foto at right] discussed the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with former CIA […]

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 […]

Why Ecuador Foreign Minister is wrong about Assange’s situation – SWEDHR

WikiLeaks breaking news on Twitter April 4, 2019 announced: “A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told @WikiLeaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within “hours to days” using the INAPapers offshore scandal as a pretext–and that it already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest.” In the morning of April […]

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. […]