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...
by barry | Jul 18, 2022 | Campaigns, media freedom, Reviews, whistle blowing
Last month, Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Julian Assange’s extradition to the US to face 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse. Subsequently his legal team lodged an appeal at the High Court in London against the decision. The court must give...
by barry | Jun 23, 2022 | Campaigns, Government, international, whistle blowing
Extradition to the US of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was approved on 17 June by Home Secretary Priti Patel. He has been given 14 days to appeal the decision which expires on 1 July. Mr Assange is wanted by the US authorities over documents leaked in 2010 and...
by barry | Jun 7, 2022 | censorship, international, media ownership, whistle blowing
Donald Trump’s former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pictured) has been summoned by a Spanish court to explain an alleged CIA plot to assassinate Julian Assange according to a Spanish national daily newspaper ABC (see:...
