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Assange on trial - Day 9
20 September, by siawi3 -
Kafka On Acid: The Trial Of Julian Assange
20 September, by siawi3Australian government silence has been broken by many citizen actions over a campaign stretching over ten years. Demonstrators have scaled Parliament House, organised weekly vigils outside Flinders Street Station and the Sydney Town Hall rain, hail or shine for the last two years, with arrests for occupation of the UK consulate leading to court hearings on 7 September this year. Voices supporting Assange from across the political spectrum, and among a broader chorus of civil society and media organisations, are getting louder. The tide is turning, but will it turn in time?
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UK : Malgré le Covid-19 et les problèmes techniques, la défense d’Assange avance ses pions
19 septembre, par siawi3L’accès aux débats a été refusé par la juge à une quarantaine d’observateurs, pourtant initialement accrédités. Parmi eux, des ONG comme Reporters sans frontières, Amnesty International et des parlementaires européens. Dans un communiqué publié jeudi, Amnesty s’est dite « inquiète » de ce « manque d’accès » à l’audience.
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News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism
19 September, by siawi3The prosecution’s new line of argumentation should have drawn massive headlines from all the major news outlets who’ve been bloviating about the dangers posed by Trump’s war on the press with flamboyant preening and self-aggrandizement. Instead they are silent, because they do not care.
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USA: Security guard brandishes gun at protesters demonstrating against hysterectomies forced on migrant women
19 September, by siawi3Aggressive confrontation captured on video and posted to social media
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USA: Nurse Alleges Forced Sterilizations, Medical Malpractice At Immigrant Detention Center
19 September, by siawi3A whistleblower complaint filed on behalf of a nurse who worked at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in southern Georgia until July alleges that a number of immigrant women detained there were subjected to sterilization through hysterectomies without their consent.
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In Central and South-Eastern Europe, media freedom is under attack, and journalists are on the frontline
18 September, by siawi3In May, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) sounded the alarm: “It is worrying to see the rhetoric of a Trump or an Orbán now infecting Slovenia,” EFJ general secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez said. “We call on the European Union to sanction this incitement of hatred against journalists.”
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Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange
18 September, by siawi3Ellsberg said “Julian Assange could not get a remotely fair trial” in the United States.
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Assange Court Report September 16: Afternoon
18 September, by siawi3Celebrated whistleblower defends Assange in court. A famous Vietnam era whistleblower, 89-year-old Daniel Ellsberg, has told a court that he feels “a great identification,” with both Julian Assange and his source Chelsea Manning, who, he said, “were willing to suffer the risk of imprisonment or even death to get information to the American public.”
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France : A Paris, confrontation interrompue entre Tarid Ramadan et son accusatrice suisse
18 septembre, par siawi3Tariq Ramadan a nié pendant près d’un an tout rapport sexuel avec deux de ses accusatrices françaises, avant de reconnaître « des relations consenties ».
