Free Julian #Assange (Belmarsh Oct. 9 2022)
Channel: Yiasemide
Date: 2024-02-18

OCTOBER 2022, LONDON: It is Oct. 9, the day after several thousand people from all over the world formed a #HumanChain around London's Parliament to demand the release of imprisoned #WikiLeaks founder and US-UK political prisoner Julian #Assange. A group of Assangists gather for a party outside His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh, where Assange has been incarcerated without UK charge since April 11 2019 — at the behest of the US State whose high crimes he revealed.

This song is a reworking of The Special A.K.A.'s 1984 song Free Nelson Mandela, with lyrics adapted for Assange.

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FREE NELSON MANDELA
Songwriters: Jerry Dammers & Rhoda Dakar.
With thanks. No copyright infringement intended.

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WIKILEAKS
https://wikileaks.org/

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

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"THE TRIAL OF JULIAN ASSANGE: A Story of Persecution," the book by Nils Melzer, former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture:

Twitter: @TrialAssange

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LAWYERS FOR ASSANGE
https://lawyersforassange.org/

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#FREEASSANGENOW

‎@Yiasemide  

CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION

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Julian Assange has been incarcerated at London's high-security Belmarsh Prison since April 2019.

On April 11, 2019, he was dragged out of the Embassy of Ecuador by UK police 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.

Assange faces extradition to the US for WikiLeaks' publication of that state's war crimes and malfeasance. On the day of the human chain around Parliament, he was diagnosed with Covid and placed on 24-hour lockdown by Belmarsh Prison authorities.

Charged with no crime in the UK, Assange is not serving a sentence. He has been imprisoned by UK authorities at the US's behest, in longterm near-solitary confinement and other verifiably torturous conditions.

More than 30 ex-CIA officials are on record admitting that the agency plotted to assassinate Assange during ex-head Mike Pompeo's tenure, while the WikiLeaks founder was still at the 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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UK HOME SECRETARY PRITI PATEL HOSTS MIKE POMPEO JUNE 2022
https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1542528135501160448

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