Posted on 09/07/2020 9:04:46 AM PDT by RandFan
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange appeared in the dock at London's Old Bailey as his fight against extradition to the US resumed.
The 49-year-old, who has been in Belmarsh Prison for 16 months, is wanted over the publication of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.
He told the judge at the start of Monday's hearing he does not consent to extradition - as new charges emerged.
If convicted in the US, he faces a possible penalty of 175 years in jail.
During Monday's hearing, the court heard Mr Assange, an Australian national, was re-arrested minutes earlier on a new indictment issued in June, during lockdown, by the US government.
It contained 18 charges, including plotting to hack computers and conspiring to obtain and disclose national defence information.
Edward Fitzgerald QC, representing Mr Assange, said he had not seen his client in person for six months in part due to the pandemic - and he told the court the latest indictment had been made "at the 11th hour" without warning.
But a bid to rule out the new charges failed, with District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruling they must be heard in the context of the extradition request.
A separate request for an adjournment to allow Mr Assange's lawyers to respond to the new charges was also refused.
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“Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange appeared in the dock at London’s Old Bailey...”
Was Rumpole there?
The Brits imported more Kangaroos to run their Courts?
I’m afraid this judge is Amy Jackson Berman mark 2.
won’t give him time to respond to the new charges. A bad sign about how this hearing will go.
Hearing has ended for the day. Biggest shit show sham of a hearing I have ever followed. Assange given 10 minutes to see new US Indictment. Audio feed doesn’t work. Par for every last hearing, too.
Maybe they could get some high school AV kids to fix it.
And the US/UK shove it in our faces. This is not Justice.
Why are judges such a**holes? Drunk on power I think.
Oh and they also kicked out Amnesty International from “monitoring” the proceedings!
Bring him HERE to U.S. soil and then pardon him. Allow him political asylum.
Get all the dirt he posses.
All charges should be dropped.
Vanessa Baraitser is the Judge overseeing the hearing.
The Judge’s Supervisor Lady Emma Arbuthnot is married to Lord James Arbuthnot, a former Defence Minister who has extensive financial ties to the British Military, and Intel agencies. Ditto for their son who owns a Cyber Security Firm w/ government contracts.
Why the hell did Sheldon Adelson have his rep’s at the last hearing? CIA spying at his Vegas hotel with his cooperation.
This is such a frigging sham. I wonder when we are just going to go Khashoggi on the Assanges and Flynns who are deemed nuisances by the Government.
Interesting links. I had no idea.
It’s the “justus” system.
Disgusting
Now the Rat Party DoJ is piling on with new overcharging
Wanna make sure NOBODY gets close to what Hillary was really doing
His lawyers said they will need until January to respond to the fresh charges and Assange knew this even though it means 6 more months in prison!
His name was Seth Rich
Assamge is a hero.
Julian Assange has demonstrated success at a commitment to exposing
important concealed truths about evil people and things. If he had such
things against Trump, he would have exposed those as well, I think.
This is the thanks he SHOULD get...
He should be pardoned, and protected, and set free to go about his
pursuit of happiness with the world’s blessing.
Not kept as a political prisoner.
We’ve been given a peek at how the world is run.
The “Modern Diplomacy” that manages power between Cabal and Cartel,
Deep State and Derp State, our children’s teachers, and Hollywood.
You thought there was only one “Epstein”?
It’s done with drugs, sex, child trafficking, blackmail, and knowing, willing conspiracy in some cases, partaking as proof of loyalty. (And a willing, complicit EneMedia, gone “All In” with full psyops mode engaged.)
It’s our individual responsibility to take it from here.
Or Not.
Our choice to know, or not.
A Time to choose and get heard, for any who haven’t already.
A time, perhaps, to go all Abolitionist against the modern slaveries?
A chance not to miss this chance is at hand.
#WWG1WGA
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