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Why is Joe Biden’s Department of Justice continuing Donald Trump’s persecution of WikiLeaks oludasile, akede ati onise Julian Assange?
Barack Obama, concerned about threats to the First Amendment freedom of the press, decided against indicting Assange for exposing U.S. war crimes. Trump did indict Assange, under Espionage Act charges that could garner him 175 years in prison. A British district judge denied Trump’s request for Assange’s extradition from the U.K. to the United States because of the extremely high likelihood that it would lead Assange to commit suicide. Trump appealed the denial of extradition.
Instead of dropping Trump’s extradition request, Biden is vigorously pursuing his predecessor’s appeal against Assange, which the U.K. High Court will hear on October 27 and 28. At that hearing, the High Court should determine what effect the CIA’s recently revealed plan to kidnap and assassinate Assange will have on his fragile mental state in the event he is extradited to the United States.
Judge Baraitser’s Denial of Extradition
On January 6, U.K. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser issued a 132-iwe ipinnu kiko fi tipatipa. "Ti nkọju si awọn ipo ti o sunmọ lapapọ ipinya ati laisi awọn ifosiwewe aabo eyiti o ṣe iwọn ewu rẹ ni HMP Belmarsh [nibiti Assange ti wa ni ẹwọn lọwọlọwọ],” o kọwe, “Mo ni itẹlọrun pe awọn ilana ti Dokita [Leukefeld] ṣalaye kii yoo ṣe idiwọ Ọgbẹni. Assange lati wa ọna lati ṣe igbẹmi ara ẹni.
Baraitser gbarale pupọ, botilẹjẹpe kii ṣe iyasọtọ, lori ẹri ti Ọjọgbọn Michael Kopelman, olukọ ọjọgbọn ti neuropsychiatry ni Kings College London. Kopelman ṣe iwadii Assange pẹlu rudurudu aapọn lẹhin ikọlu ati aibanujẹ loorekoore o si pari, “Mo ni igboya gẹgẹ bi oniwosan ọpọlọ ti le jẹ pe, ti itusilẹ si Amẹrika yoo sunmọ, Ọgbẹni Assange yoo wa ọna ti igbẹmi ara ẹni.”
"Mo ni itẹlọrun pe ewu ti Ọgbẹni Assange yoo ṣe igbẹmi ara ẹni jẹ ohun ti o pọju," Baraitser pinnu. “Mo rii pe ipo ọpọlọ ti Ọgbẹni Assange jẹ iru ti yoo jẹ aninilara lati fa a lọ si United States of America.”
The Biden administration is arguing that Baraitser should have disregarded Kopelman’s evidence or accorded it less weight because he didn’t write in his first report that Assange had a partner, Stella Moris, and they had two young children together. Although Kopelman knew about them, he was mindful of Moris’s anxiety about her children’s privacy. Both Kopelman’s subsequent report and his testimony at the extradition hearing referred to Moris and their children. By then, it was public knowledge.
Baraitser, ẹniti o ṣe akiyesi awọn ijabọ mejeeji ti Kopelman ati ẹri rẹ ṣaaju ṣiṣe ijọba, kọwe:
[Kopelman] ṣe ayẹwo Ọgbẹni Assange lakoko akoko May si Oṣu kejila ọdun 2019 ati pe o dara julọ lati gbero ni ọwọ akọkọ awọn ami aisan rẹ. O ti ṣe itọju nla lati pese iroyin alaye ti ipilẹṣẹ Ọgbẹni Assange ati itan-akọọlẹ ọpọlọ. O ti funni ni akiyesi pẹkipẹki si awọn akọsilẹ iṣoogun tubu ati pese akopọ alaye ti a fikun si ijabọ Oṣu kejila rẹ. O jẹ oṣiṣẹ ile-iwosan ti o ni iriri ati pe o mọ daradara ti o ṣeeṣe ti sisọnu ati ibajẹ. Emi ko ni idi lati ṣiyemeji ero iwosan rẹ.
The United States will be allowed to present “assurances” that if Assange is extradited and imprisoned, he will not be subject to special administrative measures (SAMs) — onerous conditions that would keep him in virtual isolation — or be held at the ADX maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado. The U.S. intends to provide an additional assurance that it would not object to Assange serving any custodial sentence he may receive in Australia. These so-called assurances, however, are conditional. The U.S. reserves the right to impose SAMs or hold Assange at ADX if his future behavior warrants it. Moreover, the U.S. cannot guarantee that Australia would consent to hosting Assange’s incarceration.
Ile-ẹjọ giga yẹ ki o funni ni iwuwo pupọ si ọna eyiti awọn ifihan ibẹjadi tuntun ti igbero iṣakoso Trump lati ji ati ipaniyan Assange yoo kan ilera ọpọlọ rẹ ti o ba jẹ ki o fi i silẹ.
High Court Should Consider U.S. Plans to Kidnap and Assassinate Assange
Awọn indictment lodi si Assange jeyo lati WikiLeaks' 2010-2011 ifihan ti US awọn odaran ogun ni Iraq, Afiganisitani ati Guantanamo. Wọn pẹlu awọn ijabọ aaye 400,000 nipa Ogun Iraaki, 15,000 awọn iku ti ko royin ti awọn ara ilu Iraq, ati ẹri ti ijiya eto, ifipabanilopo ati ipaniyan lẹhin awọn ologun AMẸRIKA “fi awọn atimọle le ẹgbẹ olokiki ti Iraqi.” awọn iwe aṣẹ han. They included the Afghan War Logs, 90,000 reports revealing more civilian casualties by coalition forces than the U.S. military had reported. And the Guantánamo Files contained 779 secret reports revealing that 150 innocent people had been imprisoned there for years and documenting the torture and abuse of 800 men and boys, in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Boya julọ ohun akiyesi Tu nipa WikiLeaks jẹ fidio “Iku Ipaniyan” ti ọdun 2007, ninu eyiti ọkọ ogun ọkọ ofurufu Apache kan ti AMẸRIKA ni Baghdad fojusi ati ina lori awọn ara ilu ti ko ni ihamọra. O kere ju awọn ara ilu 18 ti pa, pẹlu meji Reuters awọn oniroyin ati ọkunrin kan ti o n gbiyanju lati gba awọn ti o gbọgbẹ silẹ. Awọn ọmọde meji ti farapa. Tanki ọmọ ogun AMẸRIKA lẹhinna wakọ lori ọkan ninu awọn ara, gige ni idaji. Fidio naa ṣapejuwe meta lọtọ ogun odaran leewọ nipasẹ awọn Geneva Conventions ati awọn US Army Field Afowoyi.
Oun ni WikiLeaksAtẹjade ti awọn irinṣẹ gige sakasaka CIA ti a mọ si “Vault 7,” eyiti ile-ibẹwẹ pe ni “pipadanu data ti o tobi julọ ni itan-akọọlẹ CIA,” ti o fa ibinu ti Oludari CIA Mike Pompeo ti Trump. Awọn ohun elo Vault 7 ṣafihan iwo-kakiri itanna ati ogun cyber nipasẹ CIA.
Ni ọdun 2017, Pompeo pe WikiLeaks “iṣẹ itetisi ọta ti kii ṣe ti ipinlẹ” ati CIA ati awọn oṣiṣẹ ijọba ti gba “awọn ero ogun asiri” lati ji ati pa Assange, ni ibamu si iyalẹnu kan. Yahoo! Awọn iroyin Iroyin. Diẹ ninu CIA agba ati awọn oṣiṣẹ ijọba ijọba Trump beere “awọn afọwọya” tabi “awọn aṣayan” fun awọn ọna lati pa Assange. Trump “beere boya CIA le pa Assange ati pese “awọn aṣayan” fun bi o ṣe le ṣe,” ni ibamu si ijabọ naa.
Pompeo advocated “extraordinary rendition,” which the CIA used in the “war on terror” to illegally seize suspects and send them to its “black sites” where they were tortured. The scenario was that the CIA would break into the Ecuadorian Embassy in which Assange was staying under a grant of asylum and clandestinely fly him to the United States to stand trial. Others in the agency wanted to assassinate Assange outright by poisoning or shooting him to avoid the hassle of kidnapping him.
CIA ṣe amí lori WikiLeaks, ati pe o ni ero lati gbin ija laarin awọn ọmọ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ati ji awọn ẹrọ itanna wọn, ni ibamu si awọn Yahoo! Awọn iroyin Iroyin. The CIA also conducted illegal surveillance inside the Ecuadorian Embassy and spied on privileged attorney-client communications between Assange and his lawyers.
Ni ibakcdun pe CIA le kidnap tabi pa Assange, eyiti o le ṣe ipalara fun ibanirojọ ọdaràn ti o pọju, Sakaani ti Idajọ (DOJ) fi ẹsun aṣiri kan si i ni ọdun 2018. Lati ṣe atilẹyin ọran DOJ fun isọdọtun, FBI ṣe ifọwọsowọpọ pẹlu onimọran Siggi Thordarson si kun Assange bi agbonaeburuwole dipo onise iroyin. Thordarson nigbamii gbawọ si iwe iroyin Icelandic Stundin pe o purọ nipa Assange jẹ agbonaeburuwole ni ipadabọ fun ajesara lati ibanirojọ nipasẹ FBI.
In 2019, after a new pro-U.S. president came to power in Ecuador, in order to facilitate the U.S.’s attempted extradition, London police dragged Assange from the embassy and arrested him for violating bail conditions. Assange remains in custody in London’s maximum security Belmarsh Prison pending Biden’s appeal of the extradition denial.
The High Court should give great weight to the U.S. plans to kidnap and assassinate Assange. The knowledge of those revelations will put even more mental stress on Assange, whom former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer described as having suffered “prolonged exposure to psychological torture” during his confinement. The High Court should affirm the district court’s denial of extradition.
A Window Into U.S. War Crimes and Threats to Investigative Journalism
“Nigbati Assange ṣe atẹjade awọn ọgọọgọrun ẹgbẹẹgbẹrun awọn iwe aṣẹ ologun ati ti ijọba ilu ni ọdun 2010, gbogbo eniyan ni a fun ni window ti a ko rii tẹlẹ si aini idalare ati asan ti awọn ogun ni Afiganisitani ati Iraq,” Awọn alaga Assange Defence Daniel Ellsberg, Alice Walker ati Noam Chomsky kowe at Newsweek. "
Awọn ifihan aipẹ ti awọn irokeke Pompeo lodi si Assange ti o han ninu Yahoo! Awọn iroyin ti tan imọlẹ si awọn ewu ti ipinle aabo orilẹ-ede nfa si iṣẹ iroyin iwadii ati ẹtọ gbogbo eniyan lati mọ. Ni ibamu si awọn ifitonileti tuntun wọnyi, iṣọpọ ti ominira atẹjade 25, awọn ominira ilu ati awọn ajọ eto eto eniyan agbaye ti pọ si wọn. pe fun yiyọ kuro ti awọn ẹsun DOJ lodi si Assange.
Adam Schiff, alaga ti Igbimọ oye ti Ile, sọ pe igbimọ rẹ ti beere lọwọ CIA fun alaye nipa awọn ero lati ji tabi pa Assange.
Ile-ẹjọ giga yoo pinnu boya lati jẹrisi tabi yiparọ ipinnu adajọ agbegbe ti Baraitser ti o kọ isọdọtun. Ti wọn ba jẹrisi idajọ Baraitser, iṣakoso Biden le beere lọwọ ile-ẹjọ giga ti UK lati ṣe atunyẹwo ọran naa. Ti Ile-ẹjọ Giga ba fagile ipinnu Baraitser, Assange le pe ẹjọ si Ile-ẹjọ Giga julọ ti UK ati lẹhinna si Ile-ẹjọ Awọn Ẹtọ Eniyan ti Yuroopu ti idajọ ile-ẹjọ giga ba lodi si i.
Biden ká afilọ ti kiko ti isọdọtun yẹ ki o yọkuro. Julian Assange yẹ ki o tu silẹ ati ṣe ayẹyẹ fun igboya rẹ.
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