Julian Assange ‘targeted as a political opponent of Trump administration and threatened with the death penalty’
Julian Assange ‘targeted as a political opponent of Trump administration and threatened with the death penalty’ Evening Standard. By Tristan Kirk. @kirkkorner
Professor Paul Rogers, a lecturer in peace studies at Bradford University and specialist on the ‘War on Terror’, said Assange’s opinions put him “in the crosshairs” of Trump’s top team.
Giving evidence to Assange’s extradition hearing this morning, he said he believes the prosecution case is part of a drive in the United States to target “dissenters”.
“In my opinion Mr Assange’s expressed views, opinions and activities demonstrate very clearly ‘political opinions’”, he told the court.
Professor Rogers, in his witness statement, said Assange’s work involved exposing secrets that the US government wanted to keep hidden, he had been in conflict with the Obama administration, but there was “no question” that Assange had been targeted as a political opponent by Trump’s officials.
“The opinions and views of Mr Assange, demonstrated in his words and actions with the organisation WikiLeaks over many years, can be seen as very clearly placing him in the crosshairs of dispute with the philosophy of the Trump administration”, he said.
Assange’s legal team argue that a decision was taken under President Obama not to prosecute the Wikileaks activist, but that move was overturned under Trump. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/julian-assange-donald-trump-administration-old-bailey-hearing-a4543656.html?fbclid=IwAR3Rj4n0Lzlt5GmE1lXZXoMVDsOS5BdT9sEKgj82SCmMnpNLFQ6ZfEzVUOI
No comments yet.
1.This Month
EVENT
Zoom Event— more https://actionnetwork.org/events/free-meng-wanzhou?clear_id=true&fbclid=IwAR3jwIc4XM3BVwemsmM7u6Eyckz_PP9IDKBkyq6ZleGAm7MN232PsvVQZ2Y
Free Meng Wanzhou – Quebec Movement For Peace
Start: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • 7:00 PM • Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • 9:00 PM • Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
Host Contact Info: canada@worldbeyondwar.org
See – The New Humanitarian
and also – Arctic sea ice loss could trigger huge levels of extra global warming
The global nuclear industry is revving up, encouraged by the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are now backers of (and perhaps backed by) the nuclear industry.
The pandemic and global heating are still top problems for the world. Most media cover these dangers. The one that they mainly leave out, is the nuclear threat – or worse, they mindlessly regurgitate handouts from companies like NuScale – enthusiastic promotion of small nuclear reactors.
For this reason – this website will now focus more directly on its original purpose – spreading information that exposes the corrupt and toxic worldwide nuclear industry.
(However, on this sidebar, we’ll still put in some alerts from climate science experts)
of the week
Join my fight to free Julian Assange and stop US extradition
-
Archives
- November 2020 (252)
- October 2020 (394)
- September 2020 (349)
- August 2020 (352)
- July 2020 (281)
- June 2020 (295)
- May 2020 (251)
- April 2020 (274)
- March 2020 (308)
- February 2020 (223)
- January 2020 (258)
- December 2019 (251)
-
Categories
- 1
- 1 NUCLEAR ISSUES
- business and costs
- climate change
- culture and arts
- ENERGY
- environment
- health
- history
- indigenous issues
- Legal
- marketing of nuclear
- media
- opposition to nuclear
- PERSONAL STORIES
- politics
- politics international
- Religion and ethics
- safety
- secrets,lies and civil liberties
- spinbuster
- technology
- Uranium
- wastes
- weapons and war
- Women
- 2 WORLD
- ACTION
- AFRICA
- AUSTRALIA
- Christina's notes
- Christina's themes
- culture and arts
- Fukushima 2017
- Fukushima 2018
- fukushima 2019
- Fukushima 2020
- general
- global warming
- Humour (God we need it)
- Nuclear
- RARE EARTHS
- Reference
- resources – print
- Resources -audiovicual
- World
- World Nuclear
- YouTube
-
RSS
Entries RSS
Comments RSS
Leave a Reply