by admin | Jul 6, 2020 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, whistle blowing
It was Julian Assange’s 49th birthday on 3 July. He did not have much to celebrate being incarcerated in in the high-security HMP Belmarsh for more than a year facing extradition to the United States where he has been indicted under the Espionage Act for Wikileaks’...
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey, unions
This year’s Solidarity with the People of Turkey (SPOT) conference planned for 28 March in London was a victim of the pandemic lock-down, Since then attacks on democracy have been stepped up with continuing crackdowns on civil society, independent media and political...
by admin | Jun 11, 2020 | Campaigns, international
Quite rightly and not before time a number of plinths that supported some abominable racist representatives of British imperialism are now vacant. Whilst the statue of Bristol’s slave trader Edward Colston has been dredged up from Bristol Harbour for its second coming...
by admin | Jan 4, 2020 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
The following statement was published on the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) web site on 2 January 2020. “Julian Assange, publisher of Wikileaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom. He faces extradition to the United...
by admin | Oct 26, 2019 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
It was some 15 years ago that Craig Murray first became a thorn in the flesh of the British State. He’d had a distinguished career in the UK diplomatic service, but his last posting in 2002-2004 as British Ambassador, Uzbekistan brought him into conflict...
by admin | Jul 17, 2019 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey
Not according to a recent briefing by CEFTUS, the UK based Centre for Turkish Studies who reported on 11 July that dissidents within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are on the brink of forming an alternative party which could deprive the government of...
