Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
Interview with John Pilger
Arena Online (2 OCT 2020)
Q: Having watched Julian Assange’s trial firsthand, can you describe the prevailing atmosphere in the court?
The prevailing atmosphere has been shocking. I say that without hesitation; I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a corruption of due process; this is due revenge. Putting aside the ritual associated with ‘British justice’, at times it has been evocative of a Stalinist show trial. One difference is that in the show trials, the defendant stood in the court proper. In the Assange trial, the defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass, overseen by his guard, to make contact with his lawyers. His message, whispered barely audibly through face masks, was then passed by post-it the length of the court to where his barristers were arguing the case against his extradition to an American
hellhole.
WATCH: ASSANGE CASE SUMMARY:
Jen Robinson, Kristinn Hraffnson, John Shipton,
Craig Murray & Joseph Farrell
(October 2, 2020)
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RT America (3 Oct 2020)
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador, the hearing underway in London to extradite Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to the United States. Murray’s exhaustive reporting, which can be found craigmurray.org.uk., has become one of the few sources of reliable information about a hearing that has become notoriously difficult to cover because of court restrictions imposed on the press, and is being ignored by most mainstream news organizations.
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Picadilly Circus, Central London, 3 Oct 2020
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LINKS TO ALL CRAIG MURRAYS DAILY HEARING REPORTS
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