Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts

October 17, 2012

Canberra shared intel on Assange with Washington

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have been the subject of intelligence exchanges between Australia and the United States for more than two years, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has revealed.

September 30, 2012

Assange speaks out about living at the Ecuador Embassy

Assange speaks out about living in a one-room embassy refuge with a mattress on the floor and a blue lamp to mimic daylight 

By: Sarah Oliver
29 September 2012

The court in exile of Julian Assange – cyber terrorist, or the world’s greatest freedom fighter, depending on your world view – is a curiously muted place. The acolytes who pledged to maintain a protective vigil outside the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he has been encamped since June, are long gone. So, too, is the 50-strong squad of officers who policed his first few hours within the red-brick mansion block where the embassy is housed.

September 29, 2012

Asylum claim UK Extradiction Act 2003

39Asylum claim(1)This section applies if—

(a)a person in respect of whom a Part 1 warrant is issued makes an asylum claim at any time in the relevant period;
(b)an order is made under this Part for the person to be extradited in pursuance of the warrant.

September 3, 2012

Misconstrued Legal Arguments & Omitted Truths in the Media’s Coverage of Julian Assange

By: Kevin Gosztola 
Monday September 3, 2012 1:21 am

For over two months now, commentators or pundits in the United Kingdom (and the US) have been virulently denouncing Assange’s decision to seek asylum, something legally available to any individual who thinks they are being persecuted.

August 30, 2012

Bundestag Sevim Dagdelen visited Julian Assange in London

Posted on 30th August 2012 by admin
Translation

"The global public owes people like Assange and courageous whistleblowers', such as the U.S. Private First Class Bradley Manning, access to previously undisclosed information. ... "

Bundestag Sevim Dagdelen visited Julian Assange in London
http://www.sevimdagdelen.de

Ecuador's President demands Sweden and Britain guarantee not to extradite Julian Assange

Charles Miranda in London
AFP, News Limited Network
August 30, 2012 5:34PM

ECUADOR'S President Rafael Correa fears Julian Assange would not get a fair trial in the US and has insisted that Britain and Sweden guarantee they will not extradite the WikiLeaks founder.

August 19, 2012

The Assange case a threat to the Swedish law

Published 2012-08-19 00:50

Hunted man. The Swedish judicial treatment of Julian Assange can be described as harassment. Meanwhile, media coverage was biased in favor of the political establishment. Now the Ombudsman dismissed our complaint of prosecutor Marianne Ny, writes journalists Helene Bergman and Anders Carlgren.

August 18, 2012

US facing embarrassment in the OAS over Assange


Narayan Lakshman - Washington,

The Organisation of American States, an apex hemispherical body for the Americas, said a meeting of its Foreign Ministers next Friday would focus on the diplomatic row between Ecuador and the U.K. over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (41), who was granted political asylum by Quito while holed up in the country’s London embassy. 

August 17, 2012

US Congresswoman wants to cut Ecuador's trade preferences

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - US Congresswoman

Censoring Ecuador about not following international agreements and norms and that US "needs" to reexamine their relationship with Ecuador,

WikiLeaks Monument - Berlin

WikiLeaks Monument - Berlin
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