{"id":68288,"date":"2024-05-22T14:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68288"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:03:58","slug":"the-slow-motion-execution-of-julian-assange-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68288","title":{"rendered":"The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues<\/a><\/h3>\n

The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dust to Dust – by Mr. Fish<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite him to the United States may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. It does not mean Julian will elude extradition. It does not mean the court has ruled, as it should, that he is a journalist whose only \u201ccrime\u201d was providing evidence of war crimes and lies by the U.S. government to the public. It does not mean he will be released from the high-security HMS Belmarsh prison where, as Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, after visiting Julian there, said he was undergoing a \u201cslow-motion execution.\u201d<\/p>\n

It does not mean that journalism is any less imperiled. Editors and publishers of \u00a0five international media outlets \u2014\u2013 The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais and DER SPIEGEL \u2014\u2013 which published stories based on documents released by WikiLeaks, have\u00a0urged<\/a>\u00a0that the U.S. charges be dropped and Julian be released. None of these media executives were charged with espionage. It does not dismiss the ludicrous ploy by the U.S. government to extradite an Australian citizen whose publication is not based in the U.S. and charge him under the Espionage Act. It continues the long Dickensian farce that mocks the most basic concepts of due process.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0ruling<\/a> is based on the grounds that the U.S. government did not offer sufficient assurances that Julian would be granted the same First Amendment protections afforded to a U.S. citizen, should he stand trial…<\/p>\n

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The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. Dust to Dust – by Mr. Fish The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian […]<\/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":[9035,9786,2001],"class_list":["post-68288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-execution","tag-julian-assange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68288","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=68288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68289,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68288\/revisions\/68289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}