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Julian Assange arrested in London

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Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

neverminder wrote: post #309

> Extradition request from US confirmed > Scotland Yard has confirmed that Assange was arrested on behalf of the US after receiving a request for his extradition. > In a statement it said: > Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities, at 10:53hrs after his arrival at a central London police station. This is an extradition warrant under…

From the same Guardian article:

Sweden’s chief Prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, has issued this statement: “This is news to us too, so we have not been able to take a position on the information that is now available. We also do not know why he is under arrest. We are following the developments.”

So, yes, he was arrested on behalf of the US and not Sweden.

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by sorenjan »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #272
sorenjan wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know to what you're referring, but the facts of the matter are: 1. He was wanted for questioning for rape and sexual misconduct in Sweden. According to police records, he had sex with a woman who demanded that he wore a condom, which he did at first. Then next morning she wakes up by him penetrating her without consent. She then asks "are you wearing anything", to which he replies "I'm wearing you". The sexua…

They haven't promoted conspiracies like Pizzagate or Qanon, they just leaked Podesta's emails etc. What conclusions people draw from those leaks is on them, not wikileaks.

>> Are those of us investigating the Comet Pizza/Human Trafficking scandal on the right track? And if not, where should we be looking? >> EDIT: This is very real and we need to SAVE these kids. If the Wikileaks staff is uncomfortable posting this here, please give us a bat signal somewhere else. > It is curious. So far we dont know what to make of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wik...

> CBS Reality Check covers Pizzagate. https://www.facebook.com/BenSwannRealityCheck/videos/1330641...

> More: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/FBI-pedophile-symbols.pdf

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/821595404500430848

Also: https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1000795757983780865

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by ryanlol »

peteretep wrote: post #5
skilled wrote: post #3

> URGENT: Ecuador has illegally terminated Assange political asylum in violation of international law. He was arrested by the British police inside the Ecuadorian embassy minutes ago. Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1116273826621480960 Holy moly, this will be interesting! EDIT: If you're interested, here's a video of him being escorted out of the embassy -- https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/111628109…

“illegally terminated” That’s not how that works

He's an Ecuadorian citizen. Does the Ecuadorian law allow for the extradition of Ecuadorian citizens? It's quite common for this to be illegal.

Of course this wouldn't be your typical extradition as he was already on UK ground, but I think it would not be unreasonable for a court to view this as an extradition.

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Post by UweSchmidt »

empath75 wrote: post #304
dandare wrote: post #250

As a parent I will always remember that WikiLeaks (Assange) helped to stop the torture of children in Iraq. The war cables revealed that the US government knew about the routine torture of prisoners and opponents including women and children by the Iraqi authorities, a de facto puppet regime of the US. The US government knew about this from the alarmed reports of its own personnel and decided to turn a blind eye beca…

I think Obama and Bush really badly mishandled both Snowden and Assange. Heavy handed responses to both of them drove them into the arms of Russia. I don’t think either of them were Russian assets when they started.

How should it have been "handled" in your opinion? 'Protect the whistleblower' or take out the 'threat to national interests'?

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Post by hallihax »

fixermark wrote: post #316
shrewduser wrote: post #286

I just want to know, from the people who seemed to have turned against Assange, how do you know it's not a concerted disinformation / propaganda campaign to remove all his credibility and reduce public support? By my reckoning It's really hard to know what to even believe about a guy who might credibly be targeted by that.

If it was, WikiLeaks would have leaked the details by now.

I doubt anybody involved in targeting and suppressing Wikileaks post-2016 is leaking their plans to Wikileaks itself.

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Post by tabs_masterrace »

Very sad day. Remember this all started with the leak of the "Collateral murder" video. That's when the Interpol notice went out, and he had to seek asylum at the embassy. It was already quite disgusting how powerful entities were able to seemingly fabricate sexual charges as needed.

Later on he made very influential enemies by exposing corruption in the democratic political party. Instead of any follow up on that front, the pressure on Assange increased and the whole Russian scaremongering narrative was pushed. Probably to distract from own potential repercussions.

For me that looks a lot like government oppression. Something like that wouldn't fly in Germany for example. We had recently had an popular elected political removed from office for something quite insignificant - it was found out, he copy & pasted a few paragraphs in his decade old (and unrelated) doctoral work.

It doesn't look much different then the cases where Chinese or Russian governments going after journalists

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Post by kalleboo »

Mvandenbergh wrote: post #91

It will be interesting to see if the US tries to extradite him. It's actually not 100% clear that he's broken any US laws in any ways that they aren't also routinely broken by newspapers. There's a few avenues: 1) Publishing classified information. Easy to show that he did this but a very difficult path to go down when American newspapers do this all the time. 2) Conspiracy to commit espionage. Probably the most like…

That was quick

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19633234

Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities, at 10:53hrs after his arrival at a central London police station. This is an extradition warrant under Section 73 of the Extradition Act. He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible.

Re: Julian Assange arrested in London

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Post by majortennis »

mikeq101101 wrote: post #144

The comments here disgust me. People here used to have some principles, now there's so many people just repeating establishment talking points.

Some of the people are shills right? Theres an office somewhere where people are paid to forward an agenda in comment sections.

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Post by isostatic »

downandout wrote: post #230
isostatic wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was Snowden, and it was a terrible situation. The fact it landed in Vienna is even more ironic. Just another example of the US bullying other countries, and Americans get all pissy with the GDPR.

There is a big difference between preventing a single plane from landing at its preferred destination, and attempting to dictate how businesses worldwide must operate.

Like the DMCA?
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