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On January 4, 2021 the London Court will release the hearing verdict of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s US extradition case. The indictment against Assange is politically motivated. Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who is presiding over hearings, has even acknowledged the political nature of this case when she decided not to rule until at least after the US Presidential election on November 3, 2020.
The verdict will not only determine the life of Assange, but also the future of journalism. The extra-territorial overreach involved in the US government charging a journalist who exposed their war crimes under the Espionage Act threatens press freedom everywhere. This is why all major media and human rights organizations
UN Experts: Trump Violated International Law in Pardoning Blackwater Mercenaries
The choice to pardon the military contractors convicted of murder and manslaughter may violate the Geneva Conventions.
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The pardoning of four Blackwater mercenaries by President Donald Trump earlier this month was an action that violated international law, a group of experts at the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday.
Trump pardoned the four contractors Nicholas Slatten, who was convicted of first-degree murder, as well as Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard, all three who were convicted of voluntary and attempted manslaughter as part of more than a dozen pardons and commutations last week.
However, Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, 33, will be celebrating at home with her family following her release from an Iranian prison on spying charges. Ms Moore-Gilbert was one of Tehran s highest profile prisoners from the time she was apprehended at Tehran airport in 2018 as she was about to return home from an academic conference. Her release was part of an international prisoner swap where three Iranian men were freed from jail in Thailand, where they were held over their part in a failed 2012 bombing plot. Two other high profile Australian women were also released from foreign prisons during the year. Linklater Dustin is one of the many Aussies who remains behind bars in an overseas jail this Christmas. Picture: Supplied
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A man wears a Donald Trump mask as supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gather outside the Old Bailey on September 14.
OPINION: The year is 2010 and appearing in front of a live TED audience, Julian Assange is asked if it can be possibly true that WikiLeaks has, in the previous few years, released more classified documents than the rest of the world’s media combined. He responds: “It s a worry, isn t it, that the rest of the world s media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information than the rest of the world press combined.”