Posted by Ian M on December 10, 2021, 6:17 pm, in reply to "It's Gorn!"
Ken said: 'Assange now off the main BBC news' - I see there's an article on the news homepage, text headline only top right of the page under 'Top US court lets abortion clinics sue over ban' and 'At least 54 people killed in Mexico truck crash'. Here's the article by Becky Morton and 'and 'analysis' provided by Dominic Casciani, 'home and legal correspondent': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59608641
Bare bones reporting of some of the main facts but completely ignoring most of the pertinent information, such as US spying in Spain & at the Ecuadorian embassy, relying on a child molesting serial fraudster for the prosecution's case and the laughed-straight-out-of-court absurdity that the US should be allowed to extradite foreign journalists in the first place. Here's their potted history at the end of the article:
'Mr Assange faces an 18-count indictment from the US government, accusing him of conspiring to hack into US military databases to acquire sensitive secret information relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which was then published on the Wikileaks website.
He says the information exposed abuses by the US military.
But US prosecutors say the leaks of classified material endangered lives, and so the US sought his extradition from the UK.
Extradition is the process under which one country can ask another to hand over a suspect to face trial.
Mr Assange was jailed for 50 weeks in May 2019 for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
He sought refuge in the embassy for seven years from 2012 until he was arrested in April 2019.
At the time he fled to the embassy, he had been facing extradition to Sweden on allegations of sexual assault which he denied. That case was later dropped.
Despite serving his sentence for breaching bail conditions, Mr Assange remains in prison while he fights extradition because of his history of absconding.'
All above the board, nothing to see here, justice being served etc. No actual journalistic rigour which would reveal the truth behind the cowardly 'he says ... they say' formula and show why the US assurances aren't worth the paper they're written on.
Well past time for an audacious rescue methinks, springing JA out of this wretched fascistic island once & for all.