{"id":56456,"date":"2021-01-18T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56456"},"modified":"2021-01-18T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:25:19","slug":"watch-the-trial-of-julian-assange-implications-for-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56456","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018The Trial of Julian Assange: Implications for Press Freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2021\/01\/17\/watch-the-trial-of-julian-assange-implications-for-press-freedom\/\">WATCH: \u2018The Trial of Julian Assange: Implications for Press Freedom\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Watch\u00a0CN Live!\u2018s simulcast on Sunday of the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee\u2019s production of Nils Melzer &amp; Ray McGovern discussing the Julian Assange case and its impact on press freedom.<\/strong><span id=\"more-57988\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Watch the replay:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"_ytid_53120\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dnW_vZbWLDs?enablejsapi=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;cc_load_policy=0&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;loop=0&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;fs=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;controls=1&amp;color=red&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=2&amp;theme=dark&amp;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"860\" data-origheight=\"484\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>N<\/strong><strong>ils Melzer<\/strong>\u00a0is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow, and holds the Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.\u00a0<strong>Ray McGovern<\/strong>\u00a0is a former, longtime CIA Russia analyst, presidential daily briefer, and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).<\/p>\n<div><strong>Julian Assange<\/strong>\u2019s extradition trial ended at the Old Bailey in September. More than 30 witnesses for the defense included\u00a0<strong>Daniel Ellsberg<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Noam Chomsky<\/strong>; the prosecutors declared standard journalistic practices to be crimes; and the judge cut the feed to all monitoring NGOs on the first day. Judge\u00a0<strong>Vanessa Baraitser<\/strong>\u00a0on Jan. 4 blocked Assange\u2019s extradition to the U.S. but two days later denied him bail and sent the\u00a0<em>WikiLeaks<\/em>\u2018 publisher to Belmarsh prison.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Forum Host:\u00a0<strong>Ann Batiza<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: \u2018The Trial of Julian Assange: Implications for Press Freedom\u2019 Watch\u00a0CN Live!\u2018s simulcast on Sunday of the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee\u2019s production of Nils Melzer &amp; Ray McGovern discussing the Julian Assange case and its impact on press freedom. Watch the replay:\u00a0 Nils Melzer\u00a0is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Professor of International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30838,6963,2001,30837,938,7000,826,30461,880],"class_list":["post-56456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ann-batiza","tag-consortium-news","tag-julian-assange","tag-nils-melzer","tag-press-freedom","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-united-nations","tag-vanessa-baraitser","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56457,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456\/revisions\/56457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}