High Court decision “Grave miscarriage of justice,” says Julian
Assange’s fiancée
https://socialistaction.org/2021/12/10/high-court-decision-grave-miscarriage-of-justice-says-julian-assanges-fiancee/
Protesters hold placards and a banner during a march from the BBC to
Royal Courts of Justice in support of Julian Assange on October 23,
2021, in London, UK. Loredana Sangiuliano / SOPA Images / LightRocket
via Getty Images
December 10, 2021
This is a statement from the Assange Defense Committee.
To learn more go to AssangeDefense.org.
A UK court has overturned an earlier decision blocking the extradition
of Julian Assange to the United States where he is accused of publishing
true information revealing crimes committed by the US government in the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and details of CIA
torture and rendition. Julian Assange was not given permission to attend
the appeal hearing in person.
The prosecution against Julian Assange is an existential threat to press
freedom worldwide. Leading civil liberties groups, including Amnesty
International, Reporters Without Borders, ACLU, and Human Rights Watch
have called the charges against Julian Assange a “threat to press
freedom around the globe.” Journalist unions, including the National
Union of Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists,
have said that “media freedom is suffering lasting damage by the
continued prosecution of Julian Assange.” He faces a 175-year prison
sentence.
Responding to the decision of the High Court to overturn the lower
court’s earlier ruling to block the extradition of Mr. Assange, Stella
Moris, Julian Assange’s fiancee, said: “We will appeal this decision at
the earliest possible moment.”
Moris described the High Court’s ruling as “dangerous and misguided” and
a “grave miscarriage of justice.” “How can if be fair, how can it be
right, how can it be possible, to extradite Julian to the very country
which plotted to kill him?” she said.
On September 26, CIA plans to assassinate Julian Assange were uncovered
in a bombshell report. The detailed investigation revealed that
discussions of assassinating Julian Assange in London had occurred “at
the highest levels” of the CIA and Trump White House, and that kill
“sketches” and “options” had been drawn up on orders of Mike Pompeo,
then CIA director. The investigation revealed that plans to kidnap and
rendition Assange were far advanced and the CIA’s operations prompted a
political decision to produce charges against him.
Editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson said, “Julian’s life is
once more under grave threat, and so is the right of journalists to
publish material that governments and corporations find inconvenient.
This is about the right of a free press to publish without being
threatened by a bullying superpower.”
Amnesty International says the so-called ‘assurances’ upon which the US
government relies “leave Mr. Assange at risk of ill-treatment,” are
“inherently unreliable,” and “should be rejected,” adding that they are
“discredited by their admission that they reserved the right to reverse
those guarantees.” Amnesty concluded the charges against Assange are
“politically motivated” and must be dropped.
Julian Assange and Stella Moris are engaged to be married and have two
children, who are British and live in London. Stella Moris will be
giving a statement outside court following the decision; updates via
@wikileaks
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