Secularism is a Women’s IssueJohn Shipton, the father of imprisoned whistleblower Julian Assange, says that if his son is extradited to the US, “They will murder Julian one way or the other.” After arriving from his home country of Australia, Shipton is visiting several European states, including Russia, to bring public attention to the persecution of Julian Assange by British authorities over his role as a publisher and author.
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They’re Murdering My Son: Father Of Julian Assange Tells Of Pain And Anguish
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UK: Sajid Javid signs US extradition order for Julian Assange
14 June, by siawi3“He’s rightly behind bars. There’s an extradition request from the US that is before the courts tomorrow but yesterday I signed the extradition order and certified it and that will be going in front of the courts tomorrow.”
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Britain and Australia dismiss UN report that Assange has been tortured
5 June, by siawi3“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution, I have never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law.”
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L’ONU accuse les responsables saudiens du meutre du journaliste Khashoggi
21 juin, par siawi3Treize minutes avant que le journaliste assassiné n’entre dans le consulat, un proche du prince héritier et un médecin légiste discutaient de la méthode pour démembrer son corps. L’ONU juge les preuves suffisantes pour enquêter sur le prince héritier saoudien : « Des preuves suffisantes existent pour ouvrir une enquête sur la responsabilité de hauts responsables saoudiens, y compris le prince héritier Mohammed ben Salmane, dans l’affaire Khashoggi ».
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Algérie : La mort d’un gréviste de la faim en détention est alarmante, selon des experts de l’ONU
21 juin, par siawi3Les membres du Groupe de travail sur la détention arbitraire ont déclaré avoir reçu des informations selon lesquelles M. Kamel-Edine Fekhar, médecin et fondateur de la fondation Tifawt, qui défend les droits des peuples autochtones et de la minorité mozabite de la région du M’zab dans le nord du Sahara, n’aurait pas reçu de soins médicaux adéquats à temps avant sa mort survenue le 28 mai 2019.
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Algeria: Hunger striker’s death in custody alarming, say UN experts
21 June, by siawi3Members of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said they had received reports that Kamel-Edine Fekhar, a doctor and the founder of Tifawt ‑ a foundation promoting the rights of the Mozabite indigenous peoples and minority from the M’zab region of the northern Sahara ‑ had not received timely or adequate medical care before his death on 28 May 2019.
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John Pilger: The Global War on Assange, Journalism & Dissent
17 June, by siawi3In this interview with Dennis J. Bernstein and Randy Credico, Pilger talks about what is happening to his friend and colleague Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, and how his persecution could be the beginning of the end of modern investigative reporting as we know it. Since Assange’s high-profile arrest and maximum-security imprisonment on a bail-jumping charge, journalists and whistleblowers have been pursued, arrested and have their documents and hard drives seized in the U.S., France, Great Britain, and Australia.
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USA: A Brief History Of US Concentration Camps
26 June, by siawi3Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a firestorm of criticism, from both the left and the right as well as the mainstream media, for calling US immigrant detention centers “concentration camps.” To her credit, Ocasio-Cortez has refused to back down, citing academic experts and blasting the Trump administration for forcibly holding undocumented migrants “where they are brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.” She also cited history. “The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during World War II.”
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UK-USA: Assange To Face 5-Day Extradition Hearing In February 2020
18 June, by siawi3The WikiLeaks publisher told the court that “175 years of my life is effectively at stake,” according to Sky News. He addressed the judge as Lady Arbuthnot, saying: “WikiLeaks is nothing but a publisher.” Mark Summers, a lawyer representing Assange, told the court there are a “multiplicity of profound issues” with the extradition case, Sky News reported. “We say it represents an outrageous and full-frontal assault on journalistic rights,” he said.
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Iran : Nasrin Sotoudeh - « 148 coups de fouets, c’est une condamnation à mort »
18 avril, par siawi3« 148 coups de fouets, c’est une condamnation à mort. C’est barbare et inadmissible au XXIe siècle ». Un jour après la condamnation de l’avocate, la Commission du droit des femmes de l’ONU comptait un nouveau membre : l’Iran.
