UK runs down the clock in slow-mo assassination of Julian Assange Archived Message Posted by margo on December 13, 2019, 11:15 am Because asylee-in-transit Assange is a political prisoner in a case which embraces many astonishing legal abuses, his best hope is a political solution. His hopes of that are now dashed as a compassionate Corbyn response is replaced with callous Conservative approach. The Conservatives have already signed the rendition order for Assange ... and the state has apparently not renewed his British visa - leaving this journalist in the kind of precarious no-mans'-land usually depicted in sad refugee and asylum cases, in nasty foreign dictatorships. I've tried to find information on today's scheduled Westminster Magistrates Court hearing on Assange but for the UK media he's The Invisible Man and the case is Of No Interest. The only journalists who adequately report on this case are from RUPTLY, but they are otherwise occupied this morning. Apparently Assange's Judge, Lady Emma Arbuthnot, has wriggled a little and (kind of) admitted to conflicts of interest... but she has not formally recused herself. If a judge has to recuse due to conflict, all her previous rulings need to re-viewed and re-assessed, to check for bias and conflict. This has not happened, in the Assange case. ---- - - ---- - - - - - - - - --- --- -- Related ... from Oriental Review: Assange in video-conference: The Spanish-CIA spying case takes a turn Binoy KampMark https://orientalreview.org/2019/12/04/julian-assange-in-videoconference-the-spanish-case-takes-a-turn/ Message Thread: UK runs down the clock in slow-mo assassination of Julian Assange - margo December 13, 2019, 11:15 am One court attendee on Twitter fills a vacuum left by missing-in-action, salaried journalists - margo December 13, 2019, 12:33 pm Re: One court attendee on Twitter fills a vacuum left by missing-in-action, salaried journalists - Shyaku December 14, 2019, 4:31 am   Searching