Court rules that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US
The right to report and our right to know have been severely weakened following the High Court ruling on Friday 10 December that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US. The US won its appeal against the 4 January 2021 court ruling by...
COP 26 – Is it ‘last orders’ in the last chance saloon?
Now that the media has moved on from COP 26 in Glasgow it’s time to take stock of the outcomes and consider how it impacts on us. So what was the United Nations global climate summit COP 26 all about? In Paris in 2015 195 nations committed themselves to work towards...
Outcome of US appeal over the refusal to extradite the WikiLeaks ‘will take some time’
The US appeal against the dismissal of its application to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, was heard over two days in London’s Royal Courts of Justice on 27 and 28 October, but the outcome may not be known for several weeks. The hearing arose from District...