Daily Archives: July 14, 2021

2021-07-14: News Headlines

Staff (2021-07-14). Assange may never recover from 'torture' at Belmarsh, suicide becoming more likely the longer he stays in prison — doctor to RT. rt.com A doctor who has joined other medical professionals in calling for Julian Assange's release from prison told RT that the WikiLeaks co-founder's arbitrary and cruel detention continues to put him at risk of suicide. | The same concerns about Assange's mental health that led to the High Court in London blocking his extradition to the US in January are still relevant, perhaps even more so, today, Dr. William Hogan, a specialist in internal medicine and professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Florida's College of Medicine, said. | Hogan was among more than 200 medical experts who signed an open le…

cynthia papermaster (2021-07-14). Friday 7/16: Speaker Pelosi: "Help Free Julian Assange!" indybay.org Federal Building/Pelosi's office, 90 7th Street, San Francisco…

_____ (2021-07-14). U.S. Regime Hides Global Support for Assange. strategic-culture.org On July 11th, was published online by "Assange Helfen" or "Help Assange" a "Brief der 120 fàºr die Freiheit von Julian Assange" or "Letter from the 120 for Freedom of Julian Assange," and those 120 are prominent progressive Germans who are pleading with the U.S.-allied German regime, to demand that the U.S. regime cease its imprisonment of Assange in a British high-security prison for extradition of him to the United States in order for him to be to killed by the U.S. regime.

Staff (2021-07-14). Jorge Rodríguez Denounces New Drone Assassination Attempt on President Maduro & Connection Between Extreme Right and Cota 905 Terrorism. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, July 13, during a press conference held at the Federal Legislative Palace, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN), deputy Jorge Rodríguez, presented new evidence of destabilization attempts perpetrated by the extreme right, which armed and trained the gangs of Cota 905 to try overthrowing the government of President Nicolás Maduro. | Rodríguez stated that on June 22 an attack was thwarted that would have targeted President Nicolás Maduro while he was inaugurating the monument for the Bicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo. Four drones were used in the attack, which were intercepted and…

Robert Penner (2021-07-14). Milwaukee activists commemorate 40th anniversary of killing and police torture of Ernest Lacy. liberationnews.org Thousands of people took to the streets for weeks in the wake of the killing of Lacy, "Ten thousand strong every day," according to Mertyl Lacy, Ernest's 88-year-old mother.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-07-14). Prominent Egyptians announce hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoners. peoplesdispatch.org Journalist Karim Yehia, human rights activist Mohammed Zaree and anti-torture activist Aida Seif al-Dawla are among those who announced hunger strikes in solidarity with the approximately 60,000 political prisoners in Egypt…

Cynthia Papermaster (2021-07-13). Sunday 7/11: Tell Pelosi: Stop Prosecutions of Assange & Hale; Stop Asian Hate. indybay.org Pelosi's residence, Broadway @ Normandie Terrace, Pacific Heights, San Francisco…

Stuart Rees (2021-07-13). Julian Assange and the culture of revenge. greenleft.org.au To lessen the macabre prospect of Julian Assange spending 175 years in a United States maximum security prison, the US Department of Justice has suggested that he could serve prison time in Australia. Stuart Rees writes that this latest development is part of a culture of revenge.

_____ (2021-07-13). US Offer On Assange Is New Evidence, Should Have Been Rejected. popularresistance.org Writing on his blog two days after District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser on Jan. 4 in London denied the U.S. request to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange (on the grounds of his health and U.S. prison conditions that put him at extreme risk of suicide), former British diplomat Craig Murray made a prescient remark in light of what we know now: | "I am not sure that at this stage the High Court would accept a new guarantee from the USA that Assange would not be kept in isolation or in a Supermax prison; that would be contrary to the affidavit from Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg and thus would pr…

_____ (2021-07-13). US Offer On Assange Is New Evidence & Should Have Been Rejected. popularresistance.org Writing on his blog two days after District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser on Jan. 4 in London denied the U.S. request to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange (on the grounds of his health and U.S. prison conditions that put him at extreme risk of suicide), former British diplomat Craig Murray made a prescient remark in light of what we know now.

Branko Marcetic (2021-07-13). The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End. zcomm.org Stunning revelations have emerged overseas about the reckless and duplicitous methods used by US law enforcement against Julian Assange – in the US, almost total media blackout…

Staff (2021-07-13). Russian Guantánamo Prisoner Released to UAE at Risk of Torture Upon Repatriation. truthout.org United Nations human rights special rapporteurs One of the last prisoners to be released the day before Obama's presidency ended in 2017, and o…

Human Rights Watch (2021-07-13). Saudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked. juancole.com ( Human Rights Watch ) — (Beirut) — New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities failed to independently and credibly investigate allegations that Saudi authorities tortured Saudi women's rights activists and others detained in early 2018, including with electric shocks, beatings, …

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