Wikileaks
Sweden vs. Assange
A distinguished European human rights advocate is relentlessly exposing abuses by mainstream Swedish news organizations covering the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Dr. Marcello Ferrada de Noli is a medical school professor who splits his time between Sweden and Italy after surviving politically motivated torture decades ago in Chile. He was imprisoned in Quiriquina Island Camp, after resisting Pinochet s Military Junta, and he was himself a whistleblower upon the Russel Tribunal in Rome in 1974, on the crimes perpetrated by the Junta
Sweden Considers Questioning Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy
Swedish officials are thinking over the option to question Julian Assange before a ruling is made by an appeal court on rescinding his arrest warrant. Sweden s chief prosecutor Marianne Ny said on Tuesday that she is considering an invitation by the British government to question Julian Assange in London before a court ruling is made in Sweden on whether or not to lift the warrant for his arrest.
Manning pleads guilty to minor charges
Assange senses freedom if he wins senate seat in Australia
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange believes winning a seat in Australia s upper house would extricate him from his prolonged asylum inside Ecuador s London embassy, a report said yesterday. In an interview published on Australian website The Conversation, Assange outlined a scenario that would set him free to return to home.
US withheld email evidence in WikiLeaks case
The defense team for Private Bradley Manning, who could be jailed for life for aiding the enemy over the massive security breach, alleged that more than 1,300 messages were ignored by prosecutors for at least six months. The emails relate to the conditions that the 24-year-old trooper was held in military detention at Quantico, Virginia, where he was sent after a spell in a US Army jail in Kuwait following his arrest when on duty in Iraq in 2010.
Obama prejudiced WikiLeaks accused lawyer
COMMENTS by President Barack Obama about the soldier accused of the biggest intelligence leak in US history were prejudicial and sought to harm the suspect's defence, a court has heard. Other top figures, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and retired admiral Mike Mullen, the former head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, also made ill-advised remarks about Private Bradley Manning, it was alleged in court on Tuesday by civilian lawyer David Coombs.
WikiLeaks case focuses on intent to aid enemy
PROSECUTORS must prove that US Army private Bradley Manning intended to help al-Qaeda by passing secret government documents to the WikiLeaks website, defence lawyers argued on Monday. Manning s civilian attorney questioned the heart of the government s case at a pretrial hearing, contending that prosecutors had to show more than mere "negligence" to win a conviction for the serious offence of "aiding the enemy". The government had to prove Manning "intended to engage the enemy" by allegedly leaking sensitive files to a website, David Coombs said. Otherwise the trial would ignore the realities of the internet era and anyone who passed classified information to a newspaper could be accused of treason because adversaries have access to the web.
WikiLeaks founder set for UK extradition verdict
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the Supreme Court hands down its judgment at the end of a marathon legal battle. Britain s highest court is Assange s final avenue of appeal under UK law, having been detained in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant. He is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Former Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson speaks with the WSWS
Jennifer Robinson spoke with the World Socialist Web Site last Friday in Sydney. The human rights lawyer and Australian citizen, who had assisted Julian Assange in his British legal challenges to being extradited to Sweden on concocted sexual assault allegations, was delayed at Heathrow airport the previous day. She was told she was on an "inhibited" travel list and could not travel without a clearance by the Australian High Commission in London
US tribunal urges trial of WikiLeaks suspect
A US military tribunal has recommended a court martial for Bradley Manning, the soldier alleged to have funnelled thousands of classified US documents to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. "The investigating officer [Lieutenant Colonel Paul Almanza] concluded that the charges and specifications are in the proper form and that reasonable grounds exist to believe that the accused committed the offenses alleged," the US Army Military District of Washington said on Thursday.
Bradley Manning vs the US military
It has been more than 17 months since Private Bradley Manning was arrested for allegedly leaking classified US military documents to Julian Assange and his whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Since his detention, there has been news of torture, solitary confinement and mistreatment by prison guards. The information leaked by Manning to WikiLeaks made front page news around the world. But Manning's case and the grim conditions of his detention have not attracted as much press.
Oz Senator embarks on European mission to protect ‘Assange’s human rights
Ruling on Assange extradition likely by Christmas
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is likely to know by December 25 if the Supreme Court will hear his appeal against the recent high court decision to extradite him to Sweden where he faces charges of sexual assault. Assange can lodge his appeal in the Supreme Court by December 19. On receiving the appeal, three judges of the court will decide whether it is fit enough for hearing.
Locked, Shocked, and Two Feuding Companies
DataCell COO and WikiLeaks business associate lafur Sigurvinsson threatened local newspaper Morgunbla i with a lawsuit last Friday, believing that they changed his company's door lock passcodes at their shared office space because of their perceived ties to WikiLeaks and its spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson. lafur told us over the phone that Morgunbla i blocked all door access to his staff and only restored it after DataCells lawyer told them to do so.
US Extradition – Sweden vs. Assange
Four Questions to Answer if Assange is to be Extradited
Assange in Sweden – The Police Protocol (Translated)
Assange in Sweden – The Police Protocol
Bradley Manning One Year
Today marks the one year anniversary of the incarceration of Bradley Manning. Manning hasn't been charged, only tortured. Barack Obama is still trying to soften him up, hoping he'll crack under pressure and start babbling nonsense about his connections to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange so Obama can issue an Imperial Decree for the arrest of the world's most important publisher.
Assange in Sweden The Police Protocol
Assange in Sweden The Police Protocol
No Requirement of Proof in Swedish Sex Trials
BBC producer says Assange ‘ridiculous’ over ‘Zionist wife’ claims
Julian Assange treason charge considered by Government
US whistleblower faces new charges
Flashback Stops Witch Trial of Assange
Perhaps the most curious thing in the entire coverage of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the recurring cries for transparency. What's WikiLeaks hiding? Why did he rape that woman? Op-ed page up and culture page down demanding WikiLeaks open up its guts and get Assange to sit quietly in the BBC studio when he's asked for the umpteenth time how many lovers he's had. People should be able to tolerate a little transparency!
Why Bradley Manning is a patriot, not a criminal
Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old from Crescent, Oklahoma, enlisted in the U.S. military in 2007 to give something back to his country and, he hoped, the world. For the past seven months, Army Private First Class Manning has been held in solitary confinement in the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia. Twenty-five thousand other Americans are also in prolonged solitary confinement, but the conditions of Manning s pre-trial detention have been sufficiently brutal for the United Nation s Special Rapporteur on Torture to announce an investigation.
Legal expert slams Assange case
A former chief prosecutor in Sweden has criticised his country's handling of the case against Julian Assange, founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Sven-Erik Alhem, appearing at the second day of a hearing in London to decide whether Assange should be extradited to Sweden, said it was "quite peculiar" that investigators in his country did not obtain Assange's version of events before issuing an arrest warrant.
Finland should offer asylum to Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to become member of Australian journalists’ union
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is set to become a member in good standing of the Australian journalists' union, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA). ACTU president Ged Kearney will present a membership card to Mr Assange's Australian lawyer, Rob Stary, at a ceremony in Melbourne this morning.
Assange fears US indictment
Julian Assange, founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has said he fears the United States is preparing to indict him on espionage charges. Speaking outside a mansion in southeastern England where he staying as part of his bail conditions, the 39-year-old Australian said he was being subjected to "what appears to be a secret grand jury against me or our organisation".