#Unity4J Online Vigil 29.0 in support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Channel: #Unity4J
Date: 2019-05-10

On the morning of 11 April 2019 Julian Assange was arrested by the London Metropolitan Police inside the Ecuadorean Embassy. Subsequently it was revealed by the US Department of Justice that they would seek his extradition to the United States to face federal charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.   https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-computer-hacking-conspiracy

Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained in the UK since 2011.  The past six years he spent as a political refugee in Ecuador’s embassy in London, and since the installation of Ecuador's current president in late 2017 he has lived under increasingly tortuous conditions. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled Mr Assange should be immediately freed and compensated. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK must facilitate safe passage for him. 

#Unity4J is a global mass movement in solidarity with Julian Assange, created in response to Ecuador’s gagging of the publisher in March 2018. Unity4J has been endorsed by more than fifty high profile activists, journalists, celebrities, academics and former US intelligence officials including Chris Hedges, Jimmy Dore, Ray McGovern, Bill Binney and Daniel Ellsberg. 

Spread the word: 
Movement hashtag: #Unity4J
Official website: http://unity4j.com/
Official Twitter: @Unity4J 
WikiLeaks Legal Defence Fund: https://justice4assange.com/donate.html WikiLeaks support website: https://iamwikileaks.org 
Courage Foundation: https://couragefound.org/ 
Other credible accounts for Julian Assange updates: https://twitter.com/suzi3d/lists/assange-updates 

MEDIA INQUIRIES: Media inquiries and interview requests should be made to Suzie Dawson, via DM on Twitter: @Suzi3D, or by emailing info@unity4j.com 

Background reading: 

Courage Foundation: Assange’s protection from US extradition “in jeopardy” https://defend.wikileaks.org/2018/05/25/assanges-protection-from-us-extradition-in-jeopardy/ 

Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/16/assa-m16.html 

The UK’s Hidden Role in Assange’s Detention https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2018/02/12/uks-hidden-role-assanges-detention/ 

Treatment of Assange is unjust, says former Ecuador minister https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/16/julian-assange-treatment-irresponsible-ecuador-foreign-minister-guillaume-long 

Ecuador’s Ex-President Rafael Correa Denounces Treatment of Julian Assange as “Torture” https://theintercept.com/2018/05/16/ecuadors-ex-president-rafael-correa-denounces-treatment-of-julian-assange-as-torture/

Opinion: Ecuador’s Solitary Confinement Of Assange Is Torture https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/04/opinion-ecuadors-solitary-confinement-of-assange-is-torture/ 

Being Julian Assange: https://contraspin.co.nz/beingjulianassange/

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