UK judge blocks US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
A British judge on Monday denied a request from US officials to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges. In her ruling, the judge stated that extraditing Assange would be “oppressive” on his mental health, citing evidence of harsh US prison conditions and risk of suicide. Assange, an Australian internet activist, has been [...]
UK judge refuses Julian Assange plea for adjournment of extradition proceedings
Sitting in the Central Criminal Court in London Monday, British judge Vanessa Baraitser refused an application for adjournment of proceedings in Julian Assange’s extradition case until January 2021. In late June, the US Department of Justice issued an updated, superseding indictment, charging Assange, the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, with 18 counts related to [...]
The Annihilation of International Law and the Right to Freedom of Speech: Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian hacker, famous for revealing US secrets relating to war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. A whole cache of classified information was published by Assange’s organization WikiLeaks, which revealed the details of the ruthless murders of innocent civilians and the capture of hundreds of innocent civilians in the US’s Guantanamo [...]
A federal judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordered the release of Chelsea Manning from jail Thursday, explaining that her appearance in court is no longer needed. Last year, Manning had been subpoenaed to testify in a federal case involving Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Manning refused to [...]
The extradition hearings for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange began in a UK court on Monday. The hearing marked the beginning of a week of arguments, which will be followed by three weeks of hearings in May. District Judge Vanessa Baraister agreed to the additional time in January, which both sides accepted as necessary due to [...]
Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday sentenced Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump, to 40 months in prison. Stone was convicted last year of witness tampering and giving false statements to Congress in relation to investigations of Russian election interference. The circumstances [...]
Myths, often ancient traditional stories that are designed to prescribe moral or traditional values, are fantastical but also highly rational. That is because myths describe a commonly manifested belief on the way we view the world. In 1992, Professor Jane Rutherford utilised the myth of Robin Hood in order to make a point about the [...]
Federal judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign and Russian agents
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) lawsuit against the Trump campaign and various alleged Russian agents for hacking in the 2016 election. The DNC brought this suit hoping to hold members of the Trump Organization, WikiLeaks and the Russian Federation civilly liable for [...]
Robert Mueller testifies before House Judiciary Committee on report findings
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified Wednesday in two hearings about his findings (released in a 448-page redacted report in May) in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. In his opening statements, Mueller touched on findings of his investigation and made a few remarks. “Our investigation found that the Russian [...]
A Swedish trial court on Monday denied prosecutors’ request to have WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange detained in absentia over allegations of rape since Assange is already detained in the UK. The detention would have allowed prosecutors to move forward with steps to extradite Assange as he refused cooperation. Under Swedish law, detention in absentia would [...]
