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   garfieldairlines.net (garfieldairlines@fedi.garfieldairlines.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:22:58 JST garfieldairlines.net

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   • Jérémie Zimmermann????

   @jz@mamot.fr j'ai une question conne mais sérieuse : je croyais que le jugement devait être rendu hier, c'est toujours en cours ou j'ai raté un truc ?

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:22:59 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     📢 So PLEASE: make some NOISE about the #Assange / #WikiLeaks :wikileaks: case!

     📖 Read and share the two excellent books by N. Melzer:
     https://annas-archive.org/md5/7120b3643f3ed14faa4a6513309c2be8
     and S. Maurizi:
     https://annas-archive.org/md5/3862013f7a4758af82af8c4d119d5f8b
     (they exist in several languages, please buy a copy to support them if you can)

     📽️ Watch and share excellent videos and documentaries about the case:
     https://video.emergeheart.info/videos/trending?c=true&s=2

     ✊ And remember that freedom to publish is more than ever *our* collective freedom.

     #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:01 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     🗽 So in case you're not convinced yet: Assange/WikiLeaks case is the most important legal case of our times, as it impacts: press freedom; freedom to publish; war crimes; cyber-security; the resilience of our collective infrastructures online; online censorship; geopolitics; lies and crimes in governments; instrumentalisation of police and justice; the CIA; the relationship of we (the people) facing arbitrary authoritarian powers of the state; character assassination; [list too long]

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:01 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     ⁉️ If you think you "hate the guy" or just "dislike him" or that you are not concerned by his legal case because.. you know.. his "personality", please ask yourself: why? How do you know about his personality? What are your sources? Please put all this in the balance and take a look at the big picture of the massive (almost 15y!) campaign of manipulation/influence/slander/character assassination, and a legal case that goes way beyond him. If a precedent is made here, you will suffer too.💔

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:03 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     💀 If Assange is sent to the US he is a dead man. Because:
     - 1917 espionnage act doesn't leave a chance to defend oneself (no way to invoke general interest, it is just about whether or not documents were published, and they were);
     - he faces up to 175 years in prison;
     - he would be detained in isolation in the topmost-security prison;
     - the CIA wants him dead (and already attempted to kidnap or kill him while in embassy https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html);
     - his mental health is in decline;

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:04 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     😷 Of course his health is degrading. Mentally and physically. Many would have been dead already in such conditions. That is: a few weeks in jail + 2 years of house arrest + 7 years of "detention" (according to UN) in embassy + 4 years in max-security prison.. But his incredible resilience, his strong network of support, and the faint hope that there would be legal or political means to get him out kept him alive so far...

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:05 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     🦅 After 7+ years in the Ecuadorian embassy, a regime change there, the mega-release of Vault7 that proved how incompetent, unaccountable and crazy the CIA was with its capacity to enter about any device without leaving traces, and a few days after Ecuador got a 4B$ loan from the IMF, the UK police got invited into the embassy to drag him out and arrest him (2019). Accused of "skipping bail" (usually a 20ish weeks of prison) he spent 4+years in the worst max-security prison in UK.

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:06 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     👩⚖️ For 10y Sweden kept the "investigation" ongoing (think of "the victims"!) without agreeing to interview him. When case was finally closed, his name was durably muddied. The truth is: there was NO Swedish case... or rather the Swedish case has been the case of Sweden's police and judicial authority manipulating the truth to help the US harass a journalist, while instrumentalising these women for 10y. (background of 2nd woman A. Ardin is interesting but not the topic here.)

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:07 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     ⛓️ During 7+ years confined in this minuscule apartment, without a balcony, without seeing a tree or getting outside once, his lawyers asked repeatedly to the Swedish prosecutor to either 1/ come to the embassy to conduct interrogation 2/ use a video link as frequently done by Sweden at that time. No answer. This period in the embassy was considered by UN Rapporteur on arbitrary detention as.. detention. And felt like prison. J's health without access to doctors/hospitals degraded.

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:08 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     🇪🇨 Later on, as it became clearer and clearer that the UK won't help get that case closed, and as all was pointing to the US preparing an indctment for "conspiracy for espionnage" (under the 1917 espionnage act under which a defendant has no way of arguing his motive was political, or of general interest...), Julian took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy. He got political asylum and EC nationality as its government confirmed the risk was real he'd be extradited to the US.

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:09 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     🚨 Weeks after, Interpol issues a "red notice" (usually used for international organized crime, terrorism, etc.), while Sweden issues an extradition warrant for Assange. Unbelievable! This is when he decided to go by himself to the police in London, so his name could be cleared in court. Of course it didn't go as planned, extradition was upheld (hence the appeal, during which the photos were taken). Preposterous "house arrest", ankle bracelet, daily report to the police, etc. ensued.

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     ⚖️ Assange went to the police to answer all their questions. The case got closed, but weeks after a prosecutor from a different jurisdiction re-opened it. Assange lawyers then requested that he would promptly be interviewed by the prosecutor so he could clear his name. This was refused as the prosecutor was "sick". Weeks after lawyers ask for a permission for him to leave Sweden, as he had work to do elsewhere. Permission granted. He leaves for the UK.

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:11 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     🚔 A Swedish woman he slept with freaked out about a broken condom when learning he also slept with another person, and got convinced by that person to go to the police, to attempt to force him to take an HIV test. That person knew somebody working in the police... The police further 1/ manipulated the transcript of the interview 2/ pressed charges for sexual offense (the woman later said she was "railroaded into pressing charges") 3/ leaked parts of the transcript to the press.

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:12 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     📚 A few weeks after the massive releases of 2010 (Collateral Murder, the Afghan and Iraq War logs), while residing and working in Sweden, Julian was tipped off that the US will attempt to snatch him, to use the particularly lax extradition law in Sweden to get him to the US, and use any excuse possible (his sources evoked accusations of "child pornography" or "a bag of drugs found in a suitcase" or anything). What happened to to him got indeed very strange...

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 22:23:13 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

     📸 I took these photos in 2011, while Julian #Assange was in the same High Court in London where the hearing is happening today; (photos previously unreleased, now under (CC) BySa or LAL 1.3)

     Today's hearing is about requesting a permission (!) to appeal (!) his extradition to the US (!) where he faces certain death in prison for his work as a journalist and publisher.

     Then, he was appealing against his first extradition request (!) to Sweden...

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