Buongiorno, gran bella notizia, /pare/ che Assange non verrà più perseguitato, speriamo anche che il "metodo Assange" venga definitivamente accantonato; mah... i termini dell'accordo con gli aguzz... ops, il ministero della polizia mondiale sono _giustamente_ ancora riservati fino alla firma definitiva e non mi scandalizzerei se qualcosa rimanesse segreto e /muto/ ancora per un po' (poco :-) ), tanto non siamo deficienti Wikileaks nel suo profilo X parla di un «deal that has not yet been formally finalised»: https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1805390138945528183 --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible. After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars. [...] As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom. Julian's freedom is our freedom. [More details to follow] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Andrea Trentini <andrea.trentini@unimi.it> writes:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-prison-rel...
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Assange is reportedly travelling to a US plea deal hearing on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands [...] Stella Assange has said that the deal between US authorities that has led to the release of Julian Assange will be made public, but that details cannot be released until it is signed by a judge. Assange is at the moment on a stopover in Bangkok, and is reportedly travelling to a hearing on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, where he will be sentenced at 9am local time on Wednesday (11pm GMT on Tuesday). Stella Assange told listeners of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme in the UK that “there is an agreement in principle between Julian and the Department of Justice. And that has to be signed off by a judge”. She said she was limited in what she could say until that happens. She confirmed he would plead guilty to one charge “concerning the Espionage Act and obtaining and disclosing National Defence information”. Asked if it was difficult for her husband to accept the charge, she said “I don’t want to say too much until it has been signed off by a judge. But the important thing here is that the deal involves time served, and that if he signed it, he would be able to walk free.” She said that the deal had come as a direct result of Assange being granted leave to mount a fresh appeal against his extradition to the US at the high court in London in May. [...] Stella Assange has said that the deal made between US authorities and Julian Assange will be made public. She has described it as “a very interesting deal” and said “I can’t really talk about it in detail. I certainly have views about the deal, but I don’t want to jeopardise anything.” The former minister for foreign affairs of Australia, Alexander Downer [...] said: He has pleaded guilty. That is part of the plea bargain. So what he did was a criminal offence, and it was a terrible thing to do, morally as well, endangering people’s lives in that way. It is just completely inappropriate and I don’t think many Australians have sympathy for it. [...] Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015, has commented on Julian Assange’s release, posting to social media: Good news that Assange is apparently free. Enough was enough. But his treatment was a warning to journalists and whistleblowers to keep quiet in future. And I suspect it will have worked. [...] * Under the deal, which must be approved by a judge, Assange is likely to be credited for the five years he has already served and face no new jail time. In a letter to a federal judge in the district court for the Northern Mariana Islands, a senior justice department official said that he was being sent to Saipan because of its “proximity to the defendant’s country of citizenship”. * Some experts warned that a conviction for Assange, even on a single count, could have a devastating and prolonged impact on investigative and national security journalism. Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University warned that the outcome could “cast a long shadow over the most important kinds of journalism, not just in this country but around the world”. * Former US vice-president Mike Pence slammed the plea deal on Twitter as a “miscarriage of justice” that “dishonors the service and sacrifice of the men and women of our Armed Forces.” --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, 380° P.S.. non è un mistero che questo risultato è stato possibile /anche/ per la _resistenza_ dell'alta corte britannica alle incommensurabili pressioni politiche (incoraggiata anche da pezzi da novanta della diplomazia mondiale), che per l'UK non è roba da poco. -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.