by barry | Dec 1, 2022 | Europe, media freedom
In a recent YouTube broadcast about the War in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9pEotvlW-s the veteran investigative journalist John Pilger warns us that: ‘This is a war of propaganda’ and that we must be sceptical about everything. That’s sound advice when...
by barry | Nov 30, 2022 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, whistle blowing
The editors and publishers of the five media organisations who partnered with WikiLeaks – The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and New York Times – have called for end to the prosecution of Julian Assange. The New York Times reports...
by barry | Nov 10, 2022 | Campaigns, censorship, freedom of information, Government, media freedom
In June I blogged that the government had introduced its much heralded National Security Bill into Parliament: https://thespark.me.uk/2022/06/15/governments-new-security-bill-threatens-whistle-blowers-and-journalists-and-our-right-to-know/. In the government’s view...
by barry | Oct 10, 2022 | freedom of information, Government, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
More than seven thousand people joined hands to form a human chain around the Palace of Westminster on Saturday to protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and demand his freedom. They linked arms outside parliament along Westminster Bridge...
by barry | Sep 18, 2022 | Campaigns, media freedom, whistle blowing
The Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, named Julian Assange a Distinguished Guest and delivered the keys to the City to the family of the founder of WikiLeaks. The family was in Mexico at the invitation of the Presidency to the celebrations marking Mexico’s...
by barry | Aug 29, 2022 | Government, media freedom, whistle blowing
On Friday 26 August, lawyers for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange filed an appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court in London (a specialist court within the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice) against the US government and...
