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   Gladwyn d’Souza (godsouza@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 13:25:10 JST Gladwyn d’Souza

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   Chris Hedges, for The Chris Hedges Report on Substack- The five permanent members of the security council regularly violate an individuals rights with impunity, their own laws be damned: The British courts, from the inception, have made the case notoriously difficult to cover, severely limiting seats in the courtroom, providing video links that have been faulty, and in the case of the hearing this week, prohibiting anyone outside of England and Wales, including journalists who had previously covered the hearings, from accessing a link to what are supposed to be public proceedings.

   #TranslatingGaza #KillingTheFirstAmendment

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     Gladwyn d’Souza (godsouza@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 13:25:11 JST Gladwyn d’Souza

     The nearly 15-year-long persecution of Julian, which has taken a heavy toll on his physical and psychological health, is done in the name of extradition to the U.S. where he would stand trial for allegedly violating 17 counts of the 1917 Espionage Act, with a potential sentence of 170 years. 
     Julian’s “crime” is that he published classified documents, internal messages, reports and videos from the U.S. government and U.S. military in 2010, which were provided by U.S. army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. This vast trove of material revealed massacres of civilians, torture, assassinations, the list of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and the conditions they were subjected to, as well as the Rules of Engagement in Iraq. Those who perpetrated these crimes — including the U.S. helicopter pilots who gunned down two Reuters journalists and 10 other civilians and severely injured two children, all captured in the Collateral Murder video — have never been prosecuted. 

     #PublishingIsNotACrime

     https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/julian-assanges-final-appeal-read?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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