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  1. 47 seconds ago

    The Trump Administration is now arguing that Julian Assange should have been charged by the Obama Administration for facilitating the Manning leaks in 2010; if they had done so, there might well never have been a Trump Administration.

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    “Free, free, free Assange” they shout

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    30 minutes ago

    Pro-Assange protesters outside court shouting "no more fake news" at the biggest media pack I've ever seen assembled here. We've got a bigger choir than them.. maybe we'll chant back!

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    53 minutes ago

    Julian Assange will next appear on the 2nd of May by video link at this court on the extradition matter. He will next appear on the bail offence at Southwark Crown Court on a date to be announced. Hearing over.

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    1 hour ago

    Julian Assange is told that one charge he faces is that he failed to surrender on 29th June 2012. He pleads “not guilty”

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    2 hours ago

    Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, charged in computer hacking conspiracy. Click here for copy of the indictment:

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    2 hours ago

    The military took power, removed Bashir, dissolved the government, suspended the constitution, imposed a curfew and said there would be a two-year transition period.

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    Omar Hassan al-Bashir Is Removed as Sudan’s President - story with ⁩ and ⁦⁩

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    2 hours ago

    Assange charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions for attempts to crack a DOD computer password, though it appears from the indictment he failed to do so. It’s not espionage, but it’s likely something the Obama DOJ considered not good enough at the time.

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    1 hour ago

    There’s no allegation that they successfully broke into SIPRnet, and the seriousness of Assange’s effort is unclear, so I think people can reasonably argue the charges are pretextual and chilling. It’s an argument that will have to look past the face of the indictment tho.

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    2 hours ago

    The Assange indictment seeks to allay press freedom concerns by focusing on an allegation that he tried to help Manning “crack” a DOD password—i.e. entering into a conspiracy to steal rather than simply receiving info.

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    4 hours ago

    Is the next Arab uprising happening in plain sight? Six weeks on, I’m going to have to go with “yes”

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    2 hours ago

    UPDATED: U.S. prosecutors unsealed their indictment against Assange which "alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning... to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers"

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    UPDATED: U.S. prosecutors unsealed their indictment against Assange which "alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning... to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers"

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    3 hours ago

    US grand jury behind Assange charges met in secret in 2010 after Guardian, Der Spiegel, NYT published cables. Why are they not being prosecuted? Only difference would be if Assange accused of encouraging Chelsea Manning to leak them?

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    3 hours ago

    Have often not seen eye to eye with Assange. Aspects of his behaviour over the years trouble me - eg never liked indiscriminate dumping of unredacted material. But have always said would stand by him in defence of what Guardian and published in 2010/11

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    3 hours ago

    RT'ing this piece re Assange by James Goodale, free speech lawyer who helped win the Pentagon Papers case for the in 1971. A voice worth listening to

    Why journalists - whatever they think of Julian Assange - should defend his First Amendment rights. By the lawyer at the time of the Pentagon Papers, James Goodale
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    3 hours ago

    It might make sexy copy and headlines, but the idea that EUCO was 26 vs Macron is just wrong, per multiple sources (none of them French). One senior EU27 official tells me that at least 6 leaders favoured short extension

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    3 hours ago

    US did not waste any time putting in extradition request for Assange. Terrible precedent if journalist/publisher ends up in US jail for Iraq war logs and state department cables.

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    2 hours ago

    How British police were able to enter an embassy and arrest Julian Assange without violating the Vienna Convention

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