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• VIDEO John Pilger: Julian Assange dit vrai et force les criminels de guerre à se regarder dans le miroir
  9 July, by siawi3

  Famous Australian journalist John Pilger defends Julian Assange

• Assange’s fiancée reacts to US’s ’assurances’ regarding conditions should Assange be extradited
  10 July, by siawi3

  update on tne petition: Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign

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  13 juillet, par siawi3
• India: Tributes, statements, poems and analysis - Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest who died in custody on July 5, 2021 at the Holy Family Hospital in Bandra in Bombay..
  11 July, by siawi3

  The real crime of this priest was that he stood by the poor, the adivasis and for their constitutional rights, he was a believer in liberation theology and that was seen as a threat by the authorities.

• 50^th Birthday messages to Julian Assange from John Pilger, Andrew Feinstein and Chris Williamson
  13 July, by siawi3

  “We have a duty to you Julian, because you are being persecuted for telling the truth.”

• Politicians, journalists and artists write to Chancellor Merkel calling for freedom of Assange
  13 July, by siawi3

  Around 120 politicians, journalists and artists appealed to Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday in a letter asking her to raise the ongoing prosecution of Julian Assange with U.S. President Joe Biden in her upcoming trip to Washington. The US President should “end the misguided case you have inherited that violates the bedrock principles of our democracy.”

• USA: #EndTheException is campaigning for the passage of federal legislation to end prison slavery.
  16 July, by siawi3

  Writers, historians, and activists have warned about the dangers of overconflating chattel slavery and mass incarceration—arguing that doing so ignores the unique horrors faced by those who were enslaved and those who are currently or formerly incarcerated—but the “slavery clause” is an important tie between the two oppressive systems that must be addressed. Thus far, Colorado, Utah, and Nebraska have abolished prison slavery in their state constitutions and groups like the Abolish Slavery National Network are working with grassroots organizers in 24 other states to help works towards the same goal.

• US Offer On Assange Is New Evidence, Should Have Been Rejected
  14 July, by siawi3

  The U.S. offer to keep Julian Assange out of SAMS and to let him to serve time in Australia if convicted amounted to new evidence not normally allowed under appeal procedures.

• USA: On The Sentencing And Courage Of Daniel Hale
  17 July, by siawi3

  Let’s support this courageous man before the state disappears him. When we have a government that embraces secrecy and punishes truth tellers, the only hedge is more truth tellers. The U.S. government’s intense determination to prosecute Daniel Hale, former Air Force analyst and drone whistleblower - who released classified documents showing that nearly 90% of the casualties of U.S. drone assassination missions are civilians -, is precisely because his principled moral courage asks the profound questions its leaders and defenders do not want asked.

• USA: Home, but Not Free: NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Adjusts to Her Release From Prison
  19 July, by siawi3

  Winner is currently serving the longest prison sentence of its kind under the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law used in recent years to send journalists’ sources to prison, even as comparable defendants have simply gotten probation for charges of mishandling classified information.

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