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• India: From Segregation to Labour, Manu’s Caste Law Governs the Indian Prison System
  13 December 2020, by siawi3

  In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.

• Australia: Archibald prize 2020: Angus McDonald’s portrait of Behrouz Boochani wins people’s choice award
  17 December 2020, by siawi3

  Portrait depicting ‘strong, confident and peaceful’ Kurdish-Iranian writer and refugee, who spent six years in detention, wins public vote

• UK: Sunday 20/12/20 3-4:30pm Committee to Defend Julian Assange Organising Meeting for January 2021
  18 December 2020, by siawi3

  Let’s come together Sunday 20^th of December between 3 and 4:30 pm to plan and discuss our solidarity actions for January 2021.

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  19 décembre 2020, par siawi3
• Assange Hearing Outcome Could Set An “Alarming Precedent” For Free Speech
  19 December 2020, by siawi3

  People need to “forget what they think they know” about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and recognise that if he is extradited to the USA, it would set a worrying precedent for media freedom. As it stands the case is unprecedented. No publisher has ever been tried under the Espionage Act, which itself was essentially created for spies imparting official secrets either for profit or otherwise.

• U K:Two more Letters of Concern about Julian Assange to Rob Davis governor of HMP Belmarsh
  20 December 2020, by siawi3

  Swedish authorities and Swedish media as well as individuals have treated Julian Assange in a most disgraceful way. Equally guilty are British authorities and British media.

• UK: Write to your Member of Parliament to countersign the letter to Robert Buckland asking to see Julian Assange
  20 December 2020, by siawi3

  On Thursday this week a group of British parliamentarians have written to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland asking for a meeting with Julian Assange ahead of the extradition ruling which is due on 4 January. The request came after a recent meeting with United Nations special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer, who made an urgent call to the UK’s Johnson government for the immediate release of Assange after 10 years of arbitrary detention.

• Top UN anti-torture expert demands UK releases WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from prison
  27 December 2020, by siawi3

  In a statement release last night, Mr Melzer argued: ’The British authorities initially detained Mr. Assange on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Sweden in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct that have since been formally dropped due to lack of evidence.’Today, he is detained for exclusively preventative purposes. ’Mr Assange is not a criminal convict and poses no threat to anyone, so his prolonged solitary confinement in a high-security prison is neither necessary nor proportionate and clearly lacks any legal basis.’

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  27 décembre 2020, par siawi3
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