***HIGH COURT, THE STRAND, LONDON
TUESDAY JULY 12 AND WEDNESDAY JULY 13
9AM-5PM

***More info Ph. Ciaron/ Plowshares 079 392 90576

Join military veterans, former anti-war prisoners and others in solidarity with persecuted war resister Julian Assange of WikiLeaks outside the High Court, The Strand, London
Tues July 12th. and Wed Juy 13th.9am-5pm

Julian is appealing the British state's February decision to extradite him to Sweden, a hub of the U.S. extraordinary renditions program. He is also resisting the U.S. Grand Jury's attempts to render him to the U.S.

Julian will be represented this week in London by human rights solicitor Gareth Peirce and Australian barrister Geoffery Robertson.

Threats to Julian's life have been made by senior Canadian and U.S. political figures.
The ruling elites were initially enraged by Wikieaks distribution of this footage of a U.S. massacre in Iraq
 http://www.collateralmurder.com/

They have become further enraged by further exposure of their war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and esewhere by WikiLeaks. A concerted campaign of smeer and character assasination is being waged against Juian from the right wing Fox News to the liberal left Guardian newspaper. Julian is in the firing line for us, we're on the streets for him!

An anti-war solidarity presence will be maintained from 9am-5p.m. outside the High Court, The Strand, London on Tueday and Wednesday

For more information contact Ciaron from Plowshares
Ph. 079 392 90576

A crew of 10 folks associated with Giuseppe Conon House will be coming to the vigil. We are English, Austraian, Irish, Czech, Italian, U.S. We include a combat veteran of the Iraq War and anti-war resisters who have served time in prison in Australia, England, Ireland, Kenya, New Zeaand, Scotland and the United States.

TURKISH TV CLIP (3 mins) - Soidarity with Assange Outside the High Court, London, July 12
 http://video.haberturk.com/haber/video/julien-assange-temyiz-mahkemesinde/52153


PHOTO of banner
 http://yfrog.com/kizmvevj

PHOTO - Sr. Susan Carkson Plowshares activist/ Oxford Catholic Worker holding banner outside High Court, London, Juy 13
"Free Assange! Free Manning End the Wars!  http://www.collateralmurder.com/

In background (left to right) making statements against the extradition of Julian Assange
- Ben Griffin; British SAS Iraq War combat veteran & refusenik
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Griffin_%28soldier%29
Peter Thatchell; Australian born/ London based Human Rights Activist
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tatchell
Ciaron O'Reiy; Irish Australian Plowshares activist/ London Catholic Worker
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaron_O%27Reilly

Photo - Julian Assange entering court
 http://yfrog.com/kjsnaxij

SOLIDARITY VIGIL RESUMES WED 9 A.M. OUTSIDE HIGH COURT, THE STRAND, LONDON
Drop by for any amount of time you can.
More updates & info Ph. Ciaron 079 392 90576

Published as a letter in the Guardian in December but thought it was worth reproducing:

Rape claims, WikiLeaks and internet freedom

Many women in both Sweden and Britain will wonder at the unusual zeal with which Julian Assange is being pursued for rape allegations (Report, 8 December). Women in Sweden don't fare better than we do in Britain when it comes to rape. Though Sweden has the highest per capita number of reported rapes in Europe and these have quadrupled in the last 20 years, conviction rates have decreased. On 23 April 2010 Carina Hägg and Nalin Pekgul (respectively MP and chairwoman of Social Democratic Women in Sweden) wrote in the Göteborgs-Posten that "up to 90% of all reported rapes never get to court. In 2006 six people were convicted of rape though almost 4,000 people were reported". They endorsed Amnesty International's call for an independent inquiry to examine the rape cases that had been closed and the quality of the original investigations.

Assange, who it seems has no criminal convictions, was refused bail in England despite sureties of more than £120,000. Yet bail following rape allegations is routine. For two years we have been supporting a woman who suffered rape and domestic violence from a man previously convicted after attempting to murder an ex-partner and her children – he was granted bail while police investigated.

There is a long tradition of the use of rape and sexual assault for political agendas that have nothing to do with women's safety. In the south of the US, the lynching of black men was often justified on grounds that they had raped or even looked at a white woman. Women don't take kindly to our demand for safety being misused, while rape continues to be neglected at best or protected at worst.

Katrin Axelsson
Women Against Rape

Hes a rapist

Two women say he's a rapist and his lawyer says he's a rapist.

Extradicte him and let him face charges. Statistically speaking there;s a damn good chance that they will be dropped, because the vast vast majority of reported rape cases never make it anywhere near a court

Yes - as WAR suggests it is certainly possible that they have pursued him with such vigour because they dont like his Wikileaks activity, perfectly possible. Then he should not have raped people, knowing that although approximately 99.5% of rapists get away with it, they would pursue him with vigour. But just because 99.5% of rapists get away with it doesnt mean that we should let 100% away with it.

18.07.2011 23:59
"Hes a rapist"
And you're an idiot or a liar (paid or unpaid)

"Two women say he's a rapist and his lawyer says he's a rapist."
And you say you're anarchist from Glasgow so that means we got to believe you two.
You're wrong or you're lying
...
The two women went to a police station, to see if they could demand the man they had individually consensually slept could be made to take a HIV test
They did not go to lay a complaint.

The Swedish cops saw their chance and in service of the Amerikkkans ran with it
The Brits in December 2010 (not the Swedes) put him in solitary in Wandsworth and opposed bail
The Guardian kicked in and the liberal left (throw the Brit anarchist scene and Trot managed anti-war scenes within that definition)...backed off from solidarity support.
Not that either of these scenes they have done anything for Bradley Manning or anyone else who gets banged up in Britain

Anonymous did serious cyber resistance in solidarity and are being rounded up presently

You line up with the state prosecutor who defended Pinochet..lot of respect for consent in the Santiago stadium uh? If you believe that one, I've got a nice little neverending war in Afghanistan I'd like to sell you on the basis of "we're there to liberate the women"

Assange is being defended by the lawyer who freed the Guilford 4, Maguire 7, Brimingham 6 et.al
Did "Glasgow Anarchist" types with their "just add water and stir" for your instant p.c. analysis/ denunciation attack the innoocent Irish framed on bombings in their early years of their imprisonments...probably! It wasn't only Staian that had useful idiots, the American war machine have a few

For those of us who confront power, the precedent set with this extradition hearing (eg. he loses you can get shanghaied to any Euro jurisdiction without charges...is of some concern

Day 1 Photos and report from outside the court
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/07/482240.html

Huffington Post Report on Day 1
 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/07/12/assange-fights-extraditio_n_895492.html?ref=email_share

Day 2 Wed July 13
VID-Julian Assange exits High Court/ London.
Catholic Workers, War Resisters & WikiLeaks Support sing "I Shall Be Released"
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqBjeeF7QKs

For a start I'm not an anarchist (from Goasgow or anywhere else). I'm an activist in Glasgow (look it says so on my handle!)

His lawyer and the two women both agree on what happened - that he ripped her clothes and necklace, that he pinned her, that he penetrated her while she was sleeping, that he did not follow a clear and understood instruction to stop - the only thing they are arguing over is whether that form of rape is legal or not.

Just because the rape isnt illegal doesnt make it not rape. Hundreds of thousands of women were raped in the UK each year perfectly legally until 1991.

You need to familairise yourself with the defense before (like the mainstream media) promoting the prosecution arguments...a prosecutor who defended Pinochet.

There are no charges, there should be no extradition.
This case will set a precedent where activists (and others can be extradited form UK without charges.

According to Naoimi Wolf's reading of the police report (leaked to the Guardian....the medium that has done most to isolate Assange in U.K.) there is no denial of consent.
See this "Democracy Now" debate between U.S. feminists Wolf and Friedman in December
 http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/20/naomi_wolf_vs_jaclyn_friedman_a

Lynch mob justice is not justice. Such hysteria is the only thing the U.S. has got going for it at the moment in the persecution of WikiLeaks and Assange.
The Grand Jury in Virginia is a fishing expedition that has so far come up dry.
They expected to break Manning under torture to implicate Assange and have failed.

A secret/ no jury trial in Sweden (and running the gauntlet of trial by media in the meantime, without any issues of subjudice in Britain or Sweden) followed by extraordinary rendition from Sweden is the only thing the U.S. has got gong fo rit at the moment.
Sweden has been a hub of extraordinary rendition for the U.S.
(See the work of Trevor Paglan  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Paglen
U.S. has rendered Australians before...David Hicks being one of the first.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks

Day Two: Assange Legal Team Gains Traction
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 2:00PM
Tom Hayden
LONDON. Lawyers for Julian Assange appeared to shred the prosecution
case against the WikiLeaks founder in London’s Royal Court today in a
climactic end to a two-day appeal of his extradition to Sweden. The
final decision may not be handed down by the two-judge panel until
August or later.

Going into the hearing, the prosecutors and most of the media believed
the panel would rubber-stamp the current extradition order. Instead
the the judges were engaged in continuous questioning which left the
ultimate outcome in doubt.

Meanwhile Assange supporters were pleased at the courtroom opportunity
to respond to a Swedish prosecutor’s allegations of unlawful sexual
coercion, sexual molestation and minor rape against two Swedish women
last August. The Swedish case was presented by Clare Montgomery, a top
British extradition expert whose past clients include Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet, whom she defended against extradition to a Spanish
court.
ARTICLE CONTINUED....
 http://tomhayden.com/home/day-two-assange-legal-team-catches-fire.html

Beyond these strange details, there is indeed a close relationship between Sweden and the United States in foreign affairs. Long gone are the days of Olof Palme, Sweden’s popular two-term prime minister who opposed the Vietnam War and advocated coexistence during the cold war and a nuclear-free Europe. Since those years Sweden has moved into the US orbit while remaining technically neutral. Its center-right governing coalition has 53 percent support, including from the far-right anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, while the center-left represents 48 percent. The largest single party, the Social Democrats, with 31.5 percent, supports the Afghanistan war and the US global anti-terror campaign, and is more or less allied with NATO. In 2001 the Swedes carried out an “extraordinary rendition” of two Muslim detainees from Stockholm to Egypt, Ahmed Agiza and Mohammed al-Zari. Both men were tortured in custody. Human Rights Watch and the UN human rights body condemned the Swedish policy as a violation of the global Convention Against Torture.

ARTICLE CONITNUED....
 http://www.thenation.com/article/161844/trials-julian-assange-view-sweden?page=0,1

Information on Ian Hislop's curious double standards regarding Julian Assange and dangerous psychopath, David Myatt.


Here
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/08/483153.html

Or here
 http://forum.returntothepit.com/view.php?formid=76869


'Private Eye' are just another lot of hypocrites who have been bought off by the Government.

For discussions on Myatt's links with Mi5 and Satanism see:

 http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/murder_inc/site/nazi.html

 http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/82...avid-Myatt-Searchlight-article.html


The definative article on David Myatt's three decade campaign of lies and duplicity is here:

 http://www.indymedia.org/en/2010/03/935879.shtml

"The Digital Vandal:Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s War Against Transparency" & Wikileaks&Assange statements


The Digital Vandal: Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s War Against Transparency
by JLLLOW

The transparency movement has many vocal proponents. A recent event in the Wikileaks sagas proves that those who could be in the most effective position to strengthen it are only content to give it lip service.

Take Daniel Domscheit-Berg, for example. A former Wikileaks staffer, Domscheit-Berg had a very public and bitter falling-out with Wikileaks editor Julian Assange in September 2010 and has since cultivated the public role of pragmatist pitted against Assange’s flinty eccentric in a battle of archetypes.

Soon after his dismissal, Domscheit-Berg made it a personal signature to tirelessly use every publicity opportunity to disparage his former employer. He announced he would be starting a new rival whistleblower website – Openleaks – a supposedly sensible and measured alternative to his previous gig. A gossip-heavy and factually inconsistent book followed – Inside Wikileaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World’s Most Dangerous Website, filled with the mundane details of Assange’s eating habits and dress sense. Additional details on Domscheit-Berg’s predilection for unappetizing quasi-meat dishes and general whining helped feed the internet meme machine for several months.
ARTICLE CONTINUED.......
 http://21stcenturysamizdat.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/the...ency/

WikiLeaks Statement on Daniel Domscheit-Berg and OpenLeaks
and statement by Julian Assange Sat Agust 20th. 2011
 http://www.twitlonger.com/show/chek37

Indy Thread - "Guardian Newspaper betrays WikiLeaks"
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/09/484236.html