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Webinar: The Trial of Julian #Assange on 15 October 2020

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 Join the panel: Roger Waters, Ray McGovern and Miko Peled on Thursday, 15 October, 2020, to discuss The Trial of Julian Assange -- the 'trial' that will decide whether Julian gets justice and if free journalism and free dissent can survive.   Click for details below: Webinar : The Trial of Julian Assange

Julian #Assange Offered Freedom By Trump in Exchange For The Source of DNC Leaks

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Friday 18th September - Today's Hearing Julian #Assange is clearly a political prisoner. Its a politically motivated farce of a trial he is enduring. He is being held unlawfully by the British authorities, for an extradition request by the USA accusing him of conspiring to hack their government computers and breaking an espionage law when Wikileaks in 2010-11 released some confidential cables. Jennifer Robinson who is Assange’s lawyer, has stated she observed a meeting on August 15, 2017 of #AssangeCase during which former Republican U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher proposed a 'win-win' situation, that #Assange can get 'get on with his life' and a pardon in exchange for information about the source' that 'Information from Mr Assange about the source of the 2016 election DNC leaks would be of value to Mr Trump'.  The response by the US government lawyer, James Lewis QC said: “The position of the government is we don’t contest these things ...