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What I should have written was: The BBC has interviewed Anna Ardin, but hasn’t said why it’s now OK to name her, nor why it wasn’t before:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/08/naming-anna-ardin-on-newsnight/
According to Ardin, there was nothing unusual about Julian Assange’s behaviour with her; all and any men might need to be reported to police:
– “I want him to be seen as a normal guy. That’s what normal guys do sometimes. They cross other people’s boundaries.”
So there you go; any man might be sent to Belmarsh for five years.
ClarkOH. That leaves no link on this page to the article I was referring to:
ClarkBump!
Sorry site team; I want this one on the side bar – though it was my own fault I pushed it off in the first place.
AGBERLINER ZEITUNG
Short interview with Gabriel Shipton
“Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange: “Baerbock simply remained silent”
After 14 years, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a free man again. His brother Gabriel Shipton tells the Berliner Zeitung how this came about.”
https://archive.is/t5QlU* * *
Since Shipton mentions the new dangers to journalism –
“Amnesty International accuses Germany and 20 other European countries of increasing repression against peaceful protests, stigmatizing dissenting opinions and stirring up racist resentment against Arabs.”German-Foreign-Policy-Blog, short report:
https://archive.is/sPo8iIt might focus on Arabs now but the system of course may turn against anyone deemed adequate for attack.
AGThe demise of THE INTERCEPT is going on: Now co-founder Jeremy Scahill is leaving afte ten years to do:
“Drop Site News: Jeremy Scahill on Launching Investigative News Outlet with Ryan Grim”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/9/jeremy_scahill_drop_site_newsETJulian Assange is to give evidence before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on October first in a statement given by wikileaks.
Assange to Testify at Council of Europe in a piece from Consortiumnews.Assange “will address the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France on Oct. 1 after he was granted Status as a Political Prisoner by a rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), WikiLeaks said today.”
I realise I am reviving a thread from April but I didn’t know where else to put it and I think it’s news worthy.
AGa preceding discussion here:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/27/watch-assange-to-speak/
“discusses Julian Assange’s upcoming public appearance, his first since his plea deal, as well as proposed changes to the Espionage Act, with former Australian diplomat Alison Broinowski, interviewed by CN‘s Elizabeth Vos and Cathy Vogan.”
34 min.ClarkAssange’s scheduled address to the PACE went ahead:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/1/wikileaks-founder-assange-says-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-to-be-freed
– “I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pleaded guilty to journalism,” Assange told the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday.– “I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was.”
ETConsortium News has the full text of his opening remarks today 01/10/2024.
I don’t know if he has further sessions upcoming. -
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