John Y. Jones on smearing of #Assange (London Jan. 28 2023)
Channel: Yiasemide
Date: 2024-02-19

JANUARY 2023, LONDON: Norway-based journalist John Y. Jones relays messages of support for Julian #Assange from Mads Andenas and William Nygaard at the Free the Truth event at St. Pancras New Church on Jan. 28. 

FREE THE TRUTH: With host Dr. Deepa Driver, guests Jonathan Cook, Jeremy Corbyn and Craig Murray, and special guest Stefania Maurizi, the evening explored the case of #WikiLeaks founder and US-UK political prisoner Assange and the current climate facing public interest whistleblowers.

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JOHN Y. JONES is a freelance journalist who has written extensively for Modern Times.

MADS ANDENAS is former chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (member 2009-2015).

WILLIAM NYGAARD, publisher of the Norwegian translation of Salman Rushdie's 1988 book The Satanic Verses, is also the survivor of a 1993 assassination attempt.

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JOHN Y. JONES ON TWITTER
@JohnYJo94372517

https://twitter.com/johnyjo94372517

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JOHN Y. JONES IN MODERN TIMES
https://en.nytid.no/author/john-yngvar-jones/

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COLLATERAL MURDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfvFpT-iypw&ab_channel=PeopleOverPolitics

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WIKILEAKS
https://wikileaks.org/

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LAWYERS FOR ASSANGE
https://www.lawyersforassange.org/en/

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#FREEASSANGENOW

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CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION

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Julian Assange is serving his sixth year without UK charge at London's high-security Belmarsh Prison, and faces extradition to the US for WikiLeaks' publication of that state's war crimes and malfeasance. He has been incarcerated at Belmarsh since April 2019.

He was dragged out of the Embassy of Ecuador by London's Metropolitan Police on April 11, 2019, in violation of his asylum rights. He was taken directly to Westminster Magistrates' Court, and then to the prison, where he has languished ever since.

Convicted of no crime, Assange is not serving a sentence. He has been imprisoned by UK authorities at the US's behest, in longterm solitary confinement and other verifiably torturous conditions (see "The Trial of Julian Assange," by former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer). 

More than 30 ex-CIA officials are on record admitting that the agency plotted to assassinate Assange during ex-head Mike Pompeo's tenure, when Assange was an asylee at London's Ecuadorian embassy.

Former UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, who green-lighted Assange's US extradition on June 17, 2022, hosted "good friend" Pompeo in London less than two weeks later.

Pompeo set the stage for the political and judicial persecution and smear campaign against Assange by the US, Swedish, Ecuadorian and UK authorities with his 2010 verbal rampage against WikiLeaks, a gaslighting exercise that facilitated the ongoing obfuscation of the countless US war crimes WikiLeaks exposed.

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FORMER UK HOME SEC. PRITI PATEL HOSTS MIKE POMPEO JUNE 2022 
https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1542528135501160448

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