by admin | Aug 16, 2020 | freedom of information, whistle blowing
‘A popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and the people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power...
by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
The US government has made a late request to have Julian Assange extradited based on a new indictment, prosecutor Claire Dobbin told Westminster magistrates’ court at yesterday’s hearing. Washington is seeking to expand the charges against him, including by...
by admin | Jul 31, 2020 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
Julian Assange appeared at a further administrative hearing at Westminster Crown Court, London on 27 July via video link, the first time since 7 April when he was last seen in court. The conference call was organised after delay, due to failure of Belmarsh prison to...
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 2, 2020 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj, unions, whistle blowing
Julian Assange was too ill to attend the latest court hearing in his extradition case at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 1 June. The hearing which is described as procedural, heard from Julian’s barrister, Edward Fitzgerald QC that his client did not appear by...
by admin | May 11, 2020 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj, whistle blowing
On 23 January in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on the UK-US Extradition Agreement, David Davies, the Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden opened as follows: “Since we agreed the UK-US extradition treaty in 2003, it has been abundantly clear that...
