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      Assange's US Extradition Battle: The Fight to Defend the Conscience of America

      Assange's US Extradition Battle: The Fight to Defend the Conscience of America

      In the uncensored images of modern war, what did we see? We saw our government violating the highest laws of the land.

      Nozomi Hayase
      May 04, 2019

      It has been over three weeks since Ecuador illegally terminated political asylum of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the UK police violently arrested him. Assange is now held in solitary confinement in what many have called the UK's Guantanamo Bay.

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      Justice Department Charges Julian Assange With Computer Crime But Alleges Conspiracy To Abet Espionage

      Justice Department Charges Julian Assange With Computer Crime But Alleges Conspiracy To Abet Espionage

      The world will see who stands up for freedom of the press and who stands with President Donald Trump’s administration in their dangerous assertion of U.S. power

      Kevin Gosztola
      Apr 11, 2019

      The United States Justice Department dramatically escalated its political prosecution of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange. Their efforts are aimed at criminalizing a journalist--and more broadly, a media organization--for allegedly aiding and abetting the disclosure of classified information and publishing that information on the internet.

      Assange was expelled from the Ecuador embassy in the United Kingdom and arrested by British police on April 11. The expulsion and arrest was linked to an indictment and extradition request that was filed many months ago by the United States government.

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      Chelsea Manning's Fight Against the Grand Jury Exposes Battle for Free Speech

      Chelsea Manning's Fight Against the Grand Jury Exposes Battle for Free Speech

      Nozomi Hayase
      Mar 09, 2019

      The former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was sent to jail Friday for refusing to answer questions relating to WikiLeaks 2010 disclosures at a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. She has been remanded into federal custody and is made to remain confined until she testifies or until the end of the life of the grand jury.

      Manning, 31 was convicted in 2013 of releasing the largest trove of state secrets in US history, revealing Bush era's war crimes. She served seven years of a 35-year sentence until President Barack Obama commuted her sentence just before leaving his office in 2017.

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