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Redeem American Ideals: US Government Must End the Political Prosecution of Julian Assange

by Nozomi Hayase | Jul 1, 2021

On July 3, 2020, Julian Assange will turn 50 years old, spending his third birthday behind bars. The WikiLeaks publisher has been held without any formal charges alongside criminals and terrorists inside London's high-security prison for exposing the US government’s...

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Prosecution of Assange Is an Attack on Our Own Humanity

by Nozomi Hayase | Jan 2, 2021

On January 4, 2021 the London Court will release the hearing verdict of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s US extradition case. The indictment against Assange is politically motivated. Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who is presiding over hearings, has even acknowledged...

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Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Resumes Monday – We Need To Step Up the Fight

by Nozomi Hayase | Sep 4, 2020

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is set to start on Monday September 7 at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of London and could last three or four weeks. Assange has been indicted on 17 charges of espionage and one charge of conspiring...

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Assange’s US Extradition, Threat to Future of Internet and Democracy

by Nozomi Hayase | May 7, 2020

On Monday May 4, the British Court decided that the extradition hearing for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, scheduled for May 18, would be moved to September. This four month delay was made after Assange’s defense lawyer argued the difficulty of his receiving a...

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Assange’s Extradition: Covid-19 Brings Death Sentence to Free Speech

by Nozomi Hayase | Apr 10, 2020

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with the world screeched to a halt, the prosecution of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange continues. At the case management court hearing on Tuesday, April 7, Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that Julian Assange’s extradition hearing would...

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Assange’s Extradition, Escalation of the US War on Terror

by Nozomi Hayase | Mar 21, 2020

Last week the US District Judge Anthony Trenga released Chelsea Manning from detainment after concluding that the grand jury that she had been subpoenaed to testify before no longer needed her, since it was being disbanded. Manning was incarcerated because of her...

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Assange’s Extradition Hearing Reveals Trump’s War on Free Press

by Nozomi Hayase | Feb 25, 2020

On Monday, WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s one-week extradition hearing began at Woolwich Crown Court in SouthEast London. The judge heard the opening arguments for the prosecution and defense. The prosecution began, accusing the journalist who exposed the US...

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Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Opens Monday: The Fight for the Free Press Is Now On

by Nozomi Hayase | Feb 22, 2020

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing opens Monday. Finally, his legal team can argue in a court over the offenses listed in the indictment against the journalist who published government documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan....

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Assange’s Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Antiwar Movement

by Nozomi Hayase | Feb 17, 2020

Last week, Leader of the UK opposition Jeremy Corbyn challenged Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons on the US extradition request for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Corbyn stated that Assange had been charged by the US "for exposing war...

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Justice for Assange: Belmarsh Prisoners Remind Us of Our Duty

by Nozomi Hayase | Jan 31, 2020

On January 24, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is detained in London’s Belmarsh prison solely for the purposes of the US extradition request, was moved out of solitary confinement. He is now placed into a different wing of the prison, where he can interact with...

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