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Weird accusation and proof of lies
In the Detention Memorandum (Häktningspromemorian) there is an attachment, “Bilaga – Skäligen misstänkt”, that lists all the sex crimes that Julian Assange is suspected of. It is a long list. It is one rape, one sexual coercion and five sexual molestations. Sofia Wilén is the the alleged victim of rape. According to the police investigation Anna Ardin is supposed to be the victim of six sex crimes. Read moreWikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on Cablegate Releases
This is a “WikiLeaks News Update,” constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and sometimes the national security establishment of the United States because each issue/topic helps one further understand WikiLeaks and vice versa. All the times are EST.
10:30 PM At AlterNet: “Since WikiLeaks, authorities have been more aggressive about arresting citizen cyber activists. Yet new actions by the biggest “hacktivists” show they’re willing to risk it.”
10:20 PM The Australian “The standard imposed on WikiLeaks is one that cannot be imposed on any media organization.” For more, go here.
7:45 PM Journalist Dan Coughlin and Nation editor Betsy Reed for TheNation.com in a “Nation Conversation” on the stories the site has been publishing on the Haiti cables. Coughlin says what has been striking about the cables has been how they really pull “the curtain back on the Wizard of Oz.”
He finds the level of bullying—how the US State Dept uses extraordinary power to push around the Haiti government—and the micromanagement—how the US is so concerned with, for example, the location of a police station in a slum—to be most shocking.
7:35 PM WikiLeaks signs partnership with Brazilian investigative journalism center Pública. In a posted video, Assange promises more releases from the “Cablegate” material on Brazil.
7:25 PM “People in glass houses can’t be too outraged by return fire.” Sydney Morning Herald‘s Geoff Strong describes getting a phone number and calling Julian Assange. He says Assange wasn’t happy that he had been given a phone number for Assange. He compares the exchange he had with Assange to a recent interview with WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson.
12:40 PM Dave Weigel for Slate.com calls GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson the WikiLeaks candidate after his interview on RT’s “The Alyona Show.”
8:30 AM LulzSec’s hacking of Arizona state law enforcement reveals a particular iPhone app law enforcement do not like called “Cop Recorder.”
8:25 AM Coverage of Greek cables continues in the Greek newspaper Ta Nea. The latest story is on Greek corruption putting the “brakes” on US investment. American Greeks are described as having to bribe public officials to do jobs and get homes in villages. [Here is referenced.]
12:55 AM Apple, which once removed a WikiLeaks app, now removes another app—the “Third Intifada” app, which posts “news and opinion articles about Israeli aggression and the Palestinian cause” from 3rdIntifada.com.
12:45 AM The Guardian wins journalism awards, is praised for coverage of WikiLeaks.
12:30 AM Lulz Sec gets into Arizona state law enforcement servers. They have posted a bulletin indicating they will be “releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement” and “are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona.”
12:25 AM American Library Association set to take up three resolutions on WikiLeaks at meeeting in New Orleans. One of the resolutions will call for charges against Bradley Manning to be dropped.
2011-06-24 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Cablegate Releases, #WikiLeaks & More
Wikileaks Latest: peoples willing to murder Assange
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE – 10 Jan 2011, 10:15 PM EST
“WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expect more Gabrielle Gifford killing sprees.”
Wikileaks today offered sympathy and condolences to the victims of the Tucson shooting together with best wishes for the recovery of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a democrat from Arizona’s 8th district, was the target of a shooting spree at a Jan 8 political event in which six others were killed. Read more
Assange: my fate will rest in Cameron’s hands
Julian Assange said today that it would be “politically impossible” for Britain to extradite him to the United States, and that the final word on his fate if he were charged with espionage would rest with David Cameron.
In an interview with the Guardian in Ellingham Hall, the Norfolk country mansion where he is living under virtual house arrest, the founder of WikiLeaks said it would be difficult for the prime minister to hand him over to the Americans if there was strong support for him from the British people. Read more
Joe Biden: Assange is a high tech Terrorist
The US vice-president, Joe Biden, today likened the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to a “high-tech terrorist”, the strongest criticism yet from the Obama administration.
Biden claimed that Assange has put lives at risk and made it more difficult for the US to conduct its business around the world. Read more
Latest news about Julian Assange
6.01pm: Julian Assange walks out of the High Court with a hand raised.
“It’s great to smell the fresh air of London again.”
He thanks all the people around the world who have had faith in him and his lawyers, sureties “in the face of great difficulty and aversion”, also members of the press “who were not all taken in” and finally the British justice system.
“If justice is not always the outcome, at least it is not dead yet.”
5.54pm:
Sky is saying Assange will be coming out of the high court in five minutes time.
5.48pm:
Julian Assange has just been released.
U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents, are looking for evidence of any collusion in his early contacts with an Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the information.
Justice Department officials are trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped the analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, to extract classified military and State Department files from a government computer system. If he did so, they believe they could charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them. Read more
Julian Assange remains in jail as Sweden appeals against bail decision
Sweden tonight decided to fight a British judge’s decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent more than a week in prison over sexual assault allegations involving two Swedish women.
A dramatic day in and around City of Westminster magistrates court saw Assange win bail, but then be forced to return to what his lawyer Mark Stephens described as “Dickensian conditions” at Wandsworth prison while the international legal battle played out.
Latest Updates on Wikileaks and Assange court appeal
3.46pm: More on the bail conditions.
• Surety of £240,000, according to BBC News
• Curfew from 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am
• Assange must report to the police station every day at 6pm
3.36pm: Hang on. Swedish prosecutors plan to launch an appeal against the decision to grant Assange bail. They have two hours to do lodge an appeal. Assange will not be freed until that process is over.
3.34pm: Assange’s bail conditions include surrendering his passport, a curfew, and an electronic tag.
3.31pm: Assange’s next court appearance will be January 11 2011. (Sorry about the technical problems in the last few minutes).
3.25pm: Assange has been granted bail, to cheers from inside and outside the court.
Today: Julian Assange to appear in court to appeal for release
The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will try to win his release from prison today afternoon, a week after being held on remand after Sweden requested his arrest over allegations that he sexually assaulted two women. Even if the judge at Westminster magistrates court in London grants Assange bail, he could still be held.
The Crown Prosecution Service, which will represent the Swedish authorities in the UK court, has the right to appeal against any bail decision. Usually the suspect would be held in custody until an appeal hearing anyway.
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