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Assange released. Trial finally over.

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:02 am

Judge not imposing any period of supervised release

For these reasons ... on the basis of this very serious espionage case against you ... I am in fact sentencing you to a period of time served.

I am not imposing any period of supervised release.

Julian Assange appears to be a little emotional. He nods as she says, “it appears this case ends with me here in Saipan”.

“With this pronouncement it appears you will be able to walk out of this courtroom a free man. I hope there will be some peace restored,” Judge Manglona says, noting the island of Saipan was this week celebrating 80 years of its own freedom.

"Now there is some peace, you need to restore with yourself when you walk out and pursue your life as a free man."
Judge Manglona again checks he understands all the details of the agreement.

Julian Assange, a little hoarse, replies: “I do.”

McKenzie says US barristers in the UK are “forthwith” withdrawing their extradition request for Assange.
Julian Assange tightens his tie, and holds his glasses in his hand as Judge Manglona goes through some final formalities.

With that ... Mr Assange it’s apparently an early happy birthday to you, I understand your birthday is next week. I hope you will start your new life in a positive manner.

Court is adjourned.

Assange hugs his team and shakes hands with McKenzie and Anderson. He is tearing up.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2024/jun/26/julian-assange-live-news-wikileaks-founder-lands-on-us-island-of-saipan-for-district-court-sentencing?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-667b6eb08f0839bc2f00358c#block-667b6eb08f0839bc2f00358c

Re: Assange released. Trial finally over.

Posted by Mark Doran <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Mark+Doran+66' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 3:47 pm, in reply to "Assange released. Trial finally over."

So ... the man who fearlessly exposed massive crimes spent years in jail without ever being charged, and was only freed after agreeing that he was the guilty party...

Totally Orwellian. Our system is absolute dogshit.

M.

Re: Assange released. Trial finally over.

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 4:08 pm, in reply to "Re: Assange released. Trial finally over."

"So ... the man who fearlessly exposed massive crimes spent years in jail without ever being charged, and was only freed after agreeing that he was the guilty party... "

- A succinct summary.

Re: Assange released. Trial finally over.

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 5:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Assange released. Trial finally over."

was only freed after agreeing that he was the guilty party...

Agreed under extreme duress i.e. torture.

Something the west pretends only happens under foreign despotisms.

Re: Assange released. Trial finally over.

Posted by Mark Doran <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Mark+Doran+66' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 5:21 pm, in reply to "Re: Assange released. Trial finally over."

> Something the west pretends only happens under
> foreign despotisms.

Indeed! And if it had been an official target nation -- Iran, say, or Russia -- holding Assange all those years after he'd bubbled them for their war crimes, Empire media would have been giving us a literal, Terry Waite-style daily update and ongoing day-count of his incarceration...

I know people attack me for saying this, but at the present stage of the game, you really cannot hate our media too much...

M.

Re: Assange released. Trial finally over.

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 5:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Assange released. Trial finally over."

you really cannot hate our media too much...

Won't disagree. For the most part, a bunch of groupthinking careerist shitbags.

'I hope you will start your new life a positive manner'

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 26, 2024, 5:46 pm, in reply to "Assange released. Trial finally over."

What's that supposed to mean? Don't be getting up to your naughty old tricks again? Everything about your previous life was entirely negative? What a pompous sh!t treating the finest journalist of our generation so patronisingly. Slap on the wrist and off you go, no hard feelings, eh?

'Now there is some peace'

'We shall have peace... We shall have peace when you answer for the burning of the Westfold! When you answer for the children who lie dead on the plains! For the soldiers who were hewn even as they lay dead! We shall have peace when you hang from a gibbet for the sport of your own crows!'

jeers,
I

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