Australian Journalist, Julian Assange - Arbitrary Detention US-Anglo-Swedish Fit-Up

Australian Journalist, Julian Assange Arbitrary Detention US-Anglo-Swedish Fit-Up ASSANGE FRAME-UP Source @WikiLeaks   [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Archive http://archive.is/pML5B TIMELINE EVENTS Assange v Sweden https://justice4assange.com/Timeline.html RT News https://www.rt.com/news/assange-extradition-intelligence-messages-528/ http://archive.is/rF5na Swedish extradition request for Assange ‘a fit-up’ - UK intel chatter Published time: 20 May, 2013 14:19 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cited unclassified messages exchanged inside a UK intelligence agency to back his refusal to be extradited to Sweden. One of the messages calls sex-related allegations against Assange “a fit-up”. The Australian, who has been stranded at Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost 12 months, cited instant messages he received from Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British signal intelligence body. One message from September 2012, which Assange read out in a Sunday night interview with Spanish TV program Salvados, says: "They are trying to arrest him on suspicion of XYZ … It is definitely a fit-up… Their timings are too convenient right after Cablegate." Another conversation he cited goes: "He reckons he will stay in the Ecuadorian embassy for six to 12 months when the charges against him will be dropped, but that is not really how it works now is it? He's a fool… Yeah… A highly optimistic fool." Assange did not explain who the people exchanging the messages were, but said he managed to obtain them because they were not classified. "[GCHQ] won't hand over any of the classified information," he said. "But, much to its surprise, it has some unclassified information on us." GCHQ confirmed to RT that it released the info to Assange under the Data Protection Act. It can be used by individuals to obtain personal information that UK bodies have about them. The agency is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, the usual mechanism for getting information of interest released by officials. [...] A British court ordered that Assange be extradited to Sweden, where authorities want to question him on sex-related allegations. He refuses to go to there unless it guarantees that it won’t extradite him to the US, where he faces espionage charges over data released by WikiLeaks. [...] The cost of the surveillance, which is believed to involve two police vehicles and eight officers on duty at all times, is now over $16,500 a day, Scotland Yard recently reported. The operation cost British taxpayers over $5 million since Assange got his refuge on June 19, 2012. By the time the anniversary falls, the sum is expected to have gone over $6.3 million.   [comment:  current cost of arbitrary detention of journalist Julian Assange:  in excess of £14-million - here] https://www.rt.com/news/assange-extradition-intelligence-messages-528/ http://archive.is/rF5na WikiLeaks Global - Wikileaks Statement on the 9 Month Anniversary of Cablegate: Release of 133,887 Cables 29th August 2011 Over the past week, WikiLeaks has released 133,887 US diplomatic cables from around the world - more than half of the entire Cablegate material (251,287 cables). The new release was met with a sustained Denial of Service (DOS) attack during the first 36 hours. WikiLeaks had to rely on back-up servers for some hours. With supporters’ help, WikiLeaks was able to bring in additional servers to stave off the attack. For the first time, the diplomatic cables are available from every country that has US diplomatic representation. Until now, many countries had been excluded from the news stories, partly due to WikiLeaks media partners’ geographical bias, and partly due to Wikileaks’ resource constraints in establishing new media partnerships (there are now over 90). Background Nine months ago today, WikiLeaks launched Cablegate together with four media partners (Der Spiegel, El Pais, Le Monde, the Guardian) and the New York Times (who obtained the cables from the Guardian). The US administration and allied media groups responded with threats and intimidation. WikiLeaks and an alleged source, US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, bore the brunt of these attacks. During the first weeks, calls to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks staff, and particularly its founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, were frequent. Shortly thereafter, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America and Western Union unilaterally prevented WikiLeaks from receiving donations from its supporters. The unlawful financial blockade of our publication continues, although WikiLeaks is suing VISA Europe and MasterCard, and has filed a complaint with the European Commission for serious breach. (For ways to donate, see http://wikileaks.org/support ). A secret grand jury in Virginia is deciding whether Julian Assange, a journalist and Australian national, can be charged with espionage for the publication of this material.  [comment: sealed U.S. Grand Jury indictment has been confirmed - Jan. 2011 - see image below ] Rationale: release of 133,887 cables Cablegate launched nine months ago today. Despite the amount of material yet to be reported on, mainstream media organisations in Europe and the United States have slowed their rate of publishing Cablegate derived stories. This has led to the misperception in Europe and the US that WikiLeaks has been less active in recent months. In fact, WikiLeaks has stepped up its activity, establishing new partnerships on each continent with local media organisations that can contextualise the cables and carry out in-depth analysis. WikiLeaks has gone from its four original partners in November 2010 to over ninety as of this month (August 2011). [ ... ] New stories include nuclear safety in China, a letter from the UN rapporteur to the US mission in Geneva inquiring on the reason why a US army soldier was not prosecuted for the killing of a Reuters journalist, a cable suggesting that the peaceful resolution of the conflict with North Korea may pose a risk to US interests in China because it may lead to China asking the US to leave its army base (some of the #wlfind stories are listed below). SOURCE https://wikileaks.org/Wikileaks-Statement-on-the-9-Month.html [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Reading the above remark about the army base, I thought the US had an army base in China ... and then I thought Russia's doomed. But I couldn't find a US base in China, so I must be reading that wrong.  LOL It doesn't look too good for Assange, though. An Australian journalist has been set up and undemocratically imprisoned in the UK for exposing US capitalist empire (and allied capitalist) crimes and wrongdoings, and he has been held arbitrarily for over 5 years in the UK, while the US capitalists have extended their jurisdiction worldwide, to criminalise journalism. Hello?  Wake up sheeple!