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Free Julian Assange – Political Prisoner – International Human Rights Day in Dublin, December 10 2020
TD’s from Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, RISE, Solidarity and left independents, including Leas Ceann Comhairle Catherine Connolly, gathered outside the Convention Centre where the Dáil was sitting on December 10 2020 – International Human Rights Day. They made a public call on the British Government not to extradite Julian Assange to the USA.
‘We condemn the detention of Julian Assange pending his extradition proceedings. We further condemn the attempted use of the US Espionage Act to prosecute Assange for his work exposing the war crimes committed by US service personnel in the Iraq and Afghan war logs. It is our view that the use of these judicial measures by the US constitutes a grave threat to free speech and a free press. It further notes that this attempted prosecution is without precedent in US law.
The TD’s, joined by Senate colleagues including David Norris, were supporting a call made by the National Union of Journalists in Britain that Boris Johnson’s government should refuse to extradite Assange to the USA on false charges of espionage. If sent to America, Assange would face a sentence of 175 years for doing the job of a journalist, where he published the lies told by the US government about the invasion of Iraq. The following statement has been signed by 24 members of the Oireachtas. It is fitting that on International Human Rights Day solidarity with the plight of Julian Assange is expressed. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has endorsed this statement.
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Dec 10, 2020 at 11:16 pm
Posted in Against the Current Journal (USA), Australia, Bríd Smith TD, British State (aka UK), Censorship, Dublin Governments, Extradition, FFFGGG Coalition, Human Rights, International Political Analysis, International Viewpoint, Ireland, Irish General Election February 8 2020, Joan Collins TD, Julian Assange, Political Prisoner, Media and State Misbehaviour, Miscarriages of Justice, Paul Murphy TD Dublin South-West, People Before Profit, Prisoners' Rights, Protecting Sources, Richard Boyd-Barrett TD, RISE, Sinn Féin, Solidarity (USA), USA
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