Surprised to hear this story this morning on the ABC.. Archived Message
Posted by David Macilwain on June 12, 2019, 8:31 am, in reply to "Re: Chinese artist AiWeiWei and father John Shipton visit Assange at Belmarsh"
after the announcement that extradition orders had been issued. London correspondent Samantha Hawley spoke to John Shipton after his visit, where he repeated the same things as here. But she never mentioned Ai Wei Wei !! this is despite the obsession with China and its actions against journalists and activists, which is currently discussed because of protests over Hong Kong's changes to extradition laws. There was a report on this in the same edition of AM even. I just heard on a later news bulletin that John Shipton had asked the Australian government to intervene, yet the ABC didn't ask anyone from the government for a view, and none was offered. Unbelievable double-think in this police state, and worse even than the UK with new draconian anti-encryption laws and surveillance without warrant. Wouldn't happen in Russia, where journalist Golanov was just released, following popular protest.
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