The call for Julian Assange || The WikiLeaks Manifesto - We all should read it

[GazetaBitcoin]

i wanted to BTCump this very interesting topic up again

Thank you for this, dear cygan!

BitcoinMagazine has immortalized Julian Assange's image on the Bitcoin blockchain as ordinals.

This image is simply... thrilling. Julian's eyes... his face... the struggle he expires through all his pores -- all these are so touching... so touching!

the cover of the new print issue (The Gatekeepers) has been dedicated to his face/person, serving as "a reminder of the price some have paid so that we can all enjoy our freedoms"

These are such meaningful words...

May this man be set free! May his struggle end soon!

[cygan]

today i stumbled across a new book on the internet by former un special rapporteur Nils Melzer on the Assange case.
the book is titled: The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution and points out that the persecution of Julian Assange is a "threat not only to Assange himself, but to freedom of expression around the world".


https://www.versobooks.com/products/2907-the-trial-of-julian-assange?_pos=1&_sid=e856d730e&_ss=r

[GazetaBitcoin]

today i stumbled across a new book on the internet by former un special rapporteur Nils Melzer on the Assange case.

You mean this book?



I already found it since last year and I was lucky enough to find a website importing it also in Romania! The book appeared during last spring.

In the above link you can also see my collection with "must-read" books written by Assange, Snowden or about Assange. I read them all excepting this book (I will do it in the close future though). In fact, I read all the books and materials presented in OP and I also watched all the movies I listed there. I recommend them to all which are interested about Assange.

I also recommend reading the following:
- Nils Melzer's The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution - The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future
- Robert Manne's piece of art The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange
- The Most Dangerous Man In The World: The Inside Story On Julian Assange And WikiLeaks, written by Andrew Fowler
- Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, by Julian Assange. The book is a discussion between Julian, Jacob Appelbaum (Tor developer) and Jérémie Zimmermann (co-founder of La Quadrature du Net)
- Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus & Julian Assange. It is a fascinating book about the rise of Australian hackers and phreakers from 1980s, including the early activity of Julian Assange which, by that time, was known under the nym Mendax
- When Google Met WikiLeaks, by Julian Assange
- The Unauthorised Autobiography, by Julian Assange.

Besides, the following movies are parts of the must watch category:

Ithaka - a documentary showing Julian's struggle to avoid extradition to US
Mediastan: A Wikileaks Road Movie - a WikiLeaks very own documentary - full movie
Risk - a WikiLeaks documentary, directed by Laura Poitras (a friend of Julian Assange) - full movie
The Fifth Estate - a great movie about WikiLeaks
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks - yet another documentary about WikiLeaks
Underground: The Julian Assange Story - another movie about Julian, depicting his early career.

[cygan]

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You mean this book?
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i envy you this book as well as the others i looked at again on the last page of this thread
somewhere i read it (would then post the link later if interested) that the book is also available in italian and it would therefore perhaps also be interesting for fillippone
for me here would be a german/polish edition of interest...

[fillippone]

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You mean this book?
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i envy you this book as well as the others i looked at again on the last page of this thread
somewhere i read it (would then post the link later if interested) that the book is also available in italian and it would therefore perhaps also be interesting for fillippone
for me here would be a german/polish edition of interest...

Yay!
The book is actually available in Italy and in Italian.
The Italian edition is available on Amazon and the title is

Il processo a Julian Assange: Storia di una persecuzione

This literally translates into

The Trial of Julian Assange: History of a Persecution

Quite evocative

[BADecker]

Here is the reason behind why Assange is being persecuted.


What Julian Assange Was Really Doing


http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/342801-2023-04-24-what-julian-assange-was-really-doing.htm
Julian Assange sits in an English prison cell, as he has for some years. He got there on trumped-up charges and remains there because he hurt the plans of powerful people.

We must not forget about Julian. And so I am re-posting this article from some years ago, with just a bit of editing. It explains what Julian and his friends were really doing, which is probably not what you thought.

A lot of people know the what about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks – that they publish secret information – but they don't know the why. And that's unfortunate, because the thinking behind all the leaks is both brilliant and illuminating.

It Began With The Cypherpunks
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[Gyfts]

I stumbled upon this article recently: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/11/julian-assange-australian-politicians-urge-merrick-garland-united-states-us-attorney-general-to-abandon-extradition

U.S. government has had a target on his head for years for disseminating the truth. They will make an example of him to send a warning to the rest.

[GazetaBitcoin]

somewhere i read it (would then post the link later if interested) that the book is also available in italian and it would therefore perhaps also be interesting for fillippone
for me here would be a german/polish edition of interest...

The book is actually available in Italy and in Italian.

If you are interested, the books written by Assange are also available in Italian, German and Polish languages. Or, at least, some of them.

For example, I found Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and Underground available in ]German: Cypherpunks: Unsere Freiheit und die Zukunft des Internets and Underground: Die Geschichte der frühen Hacker-Elite. Tatsachenroman.

I did not spend more time on searching for translations of these books but I am sure that other ones are translated as well.

U.S. government has had a target on his head for years for disseminating the truth. They will make an example of him to send a warning to the rest.

True. Yet he is their only target. None of the journalists from big newspapers (such as New York Times, Der Spiegel or Guardian) which collaborated closely with Assange were ever accused by US. Only Assange. They did not have the guts to go against a big media outlet so, instead, they made Assange a martyr...

[cygan]

Julian Assange has taken the occasion of today's coronation of king Charles III to write and publish a letter to the majesty.
he asks the king to visit him in belmarsh prison to talk about certain things and certainly to raise the issue of release/grievance.
you can read the complete letter in the following link: A KINGLY PROPOSAL: LETTER FROM JULIAN ASSANGE TO KING CHARLES III

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For example, I found Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and Underground available in ]German: Cypherpunks: Unsere Freiheit und die Zukunft des Internets and Underground: Die Geschichte der frühen Hacker-Elite. Tatsachenroman.
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thank you for the suggestion and for the research. i will have a look at the book on the internet and then decide whether i want to order it or not.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Bu pure chance, while searching for Italian / German / Polish translations of Assange books, I also found this book, which is written by Chelsea Manning: Readme.txt.



For those not aware, Chelsea Manning (used to be known as Bradley Edward Manning) is the soldier whistleblower which gave more than 400.000 Iraq war logs and almost 100.000 Afghan war logs to Assange, the materials being published by WikiLeaks. The documents depicted all the atrocious things done by American soldiers during these wars. Curiously, before contacting WikiLeaks, he tried to contact The Washington Post and The New York Times but these publications were not interested about such documents.

Among the materials leaked by Manning is also included Collateral Murder, a video published also by big press outlets (such as Der Spiegel) presenting how American soldiers are killing civilians during war. Among victims there were also 2 journalists of Reuters. The video is still available on WikiLeaks website and also on other newspapers' websites.

Bradley Manning was put to detention in May 2010 inside a 1.8m x 3.6m room which had no window. Poor man (which became a woman meanwhile) finally got free in March 2020.

I am more than certain that this book is also a must read and I am going to order it next week.

[GazetaBitcoin]

I come back with some news about Julian Assange -- and the news are not good at all...

According to CNN, he lost the appeal he filed last year against his extradition. Court decision came last week, on June 6th.

At same time,

In a separate ruling, the High Court judge also denied Assange permission to appeal and challenge the dismissal of other parts of his case during a ruling by district judge Vanessa Baraitser in January 2021. After revising eight proposed grounds of appeal the judge argued he did not consider the proposed appeals raised “any properly arguable case.”

However, it seems that British laws allow him to appeal again that decision, although I am not sure how it is possible to make appeal after appeal... In Romania you can start a trial; after it ends you may file an appeal; and, after the appeal from the second circuit you may only make an appeal which challenges the equity of the trial (but not the facts). And this last appeal may (or may be not) accepted by Supreme Court of Justice. Fortunately for Assange, British laws work differently and he is allowed to file another appeal, which he will do during current week, as the appeal may be made only in the next 5 working days after the Court decision (I also don't understand why this appeal may be filed only within such a short amount of time).

At same time, according to Guardian, this is also his last possible legal appeal within UK.

There are no further appeal avenues at the domestic level. Assange could still fight the extradition at the European court of human rights, which last December confirmed that an application from Assange had been received.

Perhaps, if UK Courts make no justice for him, at least European court of human rights will make justice in his case...

[GazetaBitcoin]

I am more than certain that this book is also a must read and I am going to order it next week.

After waiting about a month the book is finally here!



I am barely waiting to read it!

[cygan]

in the last weekend issue of the german newspaper 'frankfurter rundschau' the topic Julian Assange and his release or extradition made it to the front page.
there, german foreign minister Annalena Baerbock is called upon by prominent figures from politics, culture and the media to campaign for the release of wikileaks founder Julian Assange during her visit to the usa
unfortunately the whole article is only available in german language


https://www.fr.de/politik/offener-brief-an-baerbock-prominente-fordern-unterstuetzung-fuer-assange-92507876.html

[cygan]

'the guardian' reports that a total of 63 members of australia’s house of representatives and senate are fighting for JA's release and have written a letter. this letter will be handed over to the americans by a small delegation.

In a letter, the 63 MPs and senators said they stood in support of the trip to the US and were “resolutely of the view that the prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange must end”.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/14/julian-assange-more-than-60-australian-mps-urge-us-to-let-wikileaks-founder-walk-free

[BADecker]

'the guardian' reports that a total of 63 members of australia’s house of representatives and senate are fighting for JA's release and have written a letter. this letter will be handed over to the americans by a small delegation.

In a letter, the 63 MPs and senators said they stood in support of the trip to the US and were “resolutely of the view that the prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange must end”.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/14/julian-assange-more-than-60-australian-mps-urge-us-to-let-wikileaks-founder-walk-free

Besides, if JA can simply sit imprisoned in an embassy, without Internet and communication with others, what harm can he do? After all, the damage has already been done, and harming him will only make him a martyr in the eyes of the people. Is that what the US really wants? There are others who are doing more damage to the system than JA. Why add martyrdom to his list of accomplishments?

[GazetaBitcoin]

I think that Julian already became a martyr, after spending 7 years in self-imprisonment inside Ecuador embassy, where he also had to live a lot of humiliation during his last months there (embassy employees were cutting his Internet access, the electricity or they were accusing him of all sort of idiotic things [1], [2]). As a plus, after he was turned out by the embassy and handed to UK Police, he was placed in a prison way before his trial started; he was kept in jail during the trial; and even after winning that trial! He was also kept in jail even after spending an initial sentence of 50 weeks of jail time! All this is absolutely outrageous!

And regarding US, I believe that they reached such a level of irritation, determined by the fact that they still can not take him there, that they don't care anymore of they make him a martyr. They are acting like they are blinded by fury and their only purpose is to get him there at any cost...

[Su-asa]

Although I am just a newcomer on this forum, I have already read some articles behind the persecution of Assange and when I saw this thread I just feel like adding something here, what Julian Assange did wasn't a bad thing but what he did is something that can bring the US country down to the ground and this was what happened before the US government planned to kill him  Julian Assange is the type of person that doesn't support evil things and that was why people expostulated on this behalf for the the government to release him and this is the video of what really happened.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Thank you for involving in this thread, Su-asa.

Indeed, all Assange did was to expose the entire truth about all shenanigans made by various governments. And this irritated US very much and tried to do everything to finish him. They are just a bunch of hypocrites, as they headed only for Assange, although he collaborated with various respectful media outlets, such as Guardian, Der Spiegel or New York Times. But US government knew they have no chance to touch any of the journalists from such big media outlets and, if they would ever try it, the press around the work would ruin them. So they threw all their hate towards Julian, as he was more exposed than a journalist from "old-era media outlets". They denied the fact that WikiLeaks was a new form of journalism and decided that he has to pay for all materials published, although same materials were published by other media outlets as well...

[cygan]

with this letter (dated november , 16 democratic and republican members of congress call on president Joe Biden to withdraw the us extradition request against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange

[GazetaBitcoin]

with this letter (dated november , 16 democratic and republican members of congress call on president Joe Biden to withdraw the us extradition request against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange

This was, probably, a move that US secret services did not anticipate. People point the finger toward Biden but I believe that behind him, all decisions about Julian are taken by secret services.

The Guardian also informed about this and, as far as I see, it may be the heaviest action pro-Assange from recent past.

Indeed, some may point the finger that behind the letter stays Marjorie Taylor Greene, which is supporter of Trump, but this should not affect too much the fact that 16 congressmen signed the letter. Let's hope for the best...