Re: There won't be enough blood to go round Margo... Archived Message
Posted by margo on August 25, 2019, 1:36 pm, in reply to "There won't be enough blood to go round Margo..."
as you say, David. The Australian govt could speak out far more, but appear to have been silent on the matter when Pompeo visited last week. They do stand up for kids jailed on drug charges in Thailand; a journalist jailed in Egypt (Peter Greste), but in terms of Assange they've joined in with the smears or stayed silent. Some good news this morning: The Greens NSW party have formally called for Assange to be brought back to Australia. From Twitter:
Previous Message "Declared via consensus at today's State Delegates Council: The Greens NSW condemn the Australia government's failure to defend Julian Assange in the face of his lengthy forced asylum, bad health, legal threats and incarcerations. We call for him to be brought home".
In the event of Assange being deported to Aus, what are the extradition laws between Australia and USA? At present, another free internet speech advocate ( Kim Dotcom) sits in years-long exile in New Zealand, fighting a US extradition order and a long jail sentence in the States. Assange's Swedish friend Ola Bini was abducted and jailed in Ecuador after Assange was renditioned out of the London Embassy: Bini has been questioned by Americans in Ecuador and awaits in legal limbo. Perhaps the Virginia Grand Jury needs an extra 'witness' to cajole, seeing as the steely Chelsea Manning hasn't produced the desired 'killer confession' yet? In fairness to lawyer Jennifer Robinson, she flew to Canberra recently and spoke to a number of parliamentarians about her client. She also addressed the Sydney University Law Department. {The above points have been gleaned from reading twitter accounts, blogs. Mainstream is simply not interested in this case even though it's set to be this century's biggest 'media freedom' related case and should attract a global audience in February 2020}
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