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    Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on January 16, 2020, 8:31 am

    Binoy Kampmark / January 15th, 2020

    LONDON — Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing WikiLeaks founder was coping as well as he could, showing the resourcefulness of the desperate at his Monday hearing. At the Westminster Magistrates Court, Assange faced a 12-minute process, an ordinary affair in which he was asked to confirm his name, an ongoing ludicrous state of affairs, and seek clarification about an aspect of the proceedings.

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    https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/short-of-time-julian-assange-at-the-westminster-magistrates-court/

    (Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.)

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    • Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court - Mary January 16, 2020, 8:31 am