'It's time Julian Assange was brought home.'—Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese #FreeAssangeNOW #BringAssangeHome

Victims of torture at Abu Ghraib prison are suing CACI, the US contractor that supplied the interrogators at the prison.

Abu Ghraib was run by the US military during the occupation of Iraq and became infamous after pictures of torture and abuse were leaked. CACI has attempted…

Stella Assange on '5 years in Belmarsh' for Julian Assange

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange marked 5 years at the UK's most secure prison for publishing on Thursday #FreeAssangeNOW

'It's time Julian Assange was brought home.'—Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese #FreeAssangeNOW #BringAssangeHome

Former DOJ spokesperson Matthew Miller in 2013: 'The problem [DOJ] has always had in investigating Julian Assange is there is no way to prosecute him for publishing information without the same theory being applied to journalists.”

Matthew Miller, now State Dept spox, in 2024:

In an exclusive interview with Middle East Eye, Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian doctor who has become known for his work in Gaza, detailed how he was detained at an airport in Germany and subsequently denied entry. Abu Sittah wanted to attend a conference where he would…

Today, German authorities raided the Palestine Conference (Palästina Kongress), an event co-sponsored by a broad coalition of organizations including PI member DiEM25.

Some 2,000 Berlin police officers mobilized to block access to the building, disable the livestream, cut power to…

I’m sad—and frankly baffled—to report that the House voted today to reward the government’s widespread abuses of Section 702 by massively expanding the government’s powers to conduct warrantless surveillance. 1/14

Whoa: the White House is calling the 4th Amendment of the Constitution a threat to National Security. This is a real memo sent out today: the yellow-highlighted sections just translate euphemism ('the Biggs Amendment') to plain language (Biggs' warrant req). (Source below in QT)

An OUTRAGE: the House just voted down making the FBI get warrants for FISA data. They voted down the Constitution.

Ryan Grim grills State Department official on Julian Assange Ryan Grim

Tell the Biden administration to drop the Assange case now!
#FreeAssange2024 #LetHimGoJoe
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As President Biden responds “we’re considering it” to a media question about Australia’s request to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, RSF reiterates our long-standing call on the Biden administration to drop these charges, close the case, and #FreeAssange !

Part of what makes the case against Assange a political case—and an alarming attack on world press freedom—is his 5 years of detention in Belmarsh ('Britain's Gitmo').

Going year by year, I chronicle what Assange has endured. thedissenter.org/five-years-at-…

Stella Assange on the deteriorating condition of her husband, publisher Julian Assange, who marked five years held in the UK's most secure prison for publishing on Thursday | #FreeAssangeNOW Free Assange - #FreeAssange

The Persecution of Julian Assange,
Year Five

@chipgibbons.bsky.social for The Nation

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'If you don't have anyone willing or able to publish the truth any more, then the public can be manipulated. And that's the ultimate goal.'—Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW

TODAY: Julian Assange has been imprisoned 5 years. For publishing the truth. #DropTheCharges and #FreeAssangeNOW !

Watch Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost's Wieland Hoban as he addresses antisemitism accusations amid Germany's smear campaign against the Palestine Congress.

Despite crackdowns on Jewish Voice, our German party MERA25 Deutschland and others, the congress exposes Germany's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.

Apx 2500 cops now guarding a pro-
Palestinian congress that (acc to its online program) features little over 20 speakers - a fourth of which are Jewish. Yesterday WELT platformed fascist AfD politician Björn Höcke, letting him drivel over Holocaust history. Both within 24 hours.

My back and forth with the State Department over the charges against Julian Assange