It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically enough, by the prosecution. Curiously, this is a point that both the prosecutors, fronted by the US imperium, and the WikiLeaks defence team, seem to have found some inadvertent agreement with.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the reasons behind Sweden’s decision to close its rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Swedish prosecutors said that the evidence against him is not strong enough for an indictment, but the real reason to drop the investigation may be to facilitate the U.S. extradition of Assange.
Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, says that UK authorities are holding Julian Assange in worse conditions than accused terrorists and…
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Legendary musician Roger Waters sang “Wish You Were Here” in honor of Julian Assange, at a public concert outside the…
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UPDATED: Suspects are being investigated in Spain for having tried to extort €3 million from WikiLeaks in exchange for a huge cache of documents and surveillance videos of Assange inside Ecuador’s London embassy, including with his doctors and lawyers. By…Read more →
WikiLeaks announced last Wednesday that Julian Assange has appointed Icelandic investigative journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson as editor-in-chief, taking over one of his roles within the whistle-blowing media organisation. Assange remains the site’s publisher. WikiLeaks explained in a brief statement: “Due to the extraordinary circumstances where Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been held incommunicado (except for visits by his lawyers)[Read More...]
