Over 1,000 journalists from across the world unite in defense of Julian Assange

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/over-1000-journalists-from-across-the-world-unite-in-defence-of-julain-assange?fbclid=IwAR1FWLkzsf2iLSyxgOX2vrlwMEoyUghIDN57DNJYozBRbtHtwOutAL9a5-8

https://speak-up-for-assange.org/ #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange Facebook page @SpeakUpForAssange

      The Human Rights Organization, Amnesty International, criticized what it called a “full-scale assault on the right to freedom of expression” by the United States and demanded the country drop its Espionage Charges against and extradition request of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

      Assange has been in the high security Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019 after being forcibly removed from the Ecuadoran embassy where he’d been effectively trapped since 2012.  The WikiLeaks founder faces up to 175 years in prison for 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act—charges journalists and press freedom defenders said represent a dangerous assault on press freedom by attacking Assange for publishing and exposing U.S. war crimes. The public has a right to know what their government is up to.

     Doctors and a United Nations expert have warned that Assange is being held under conditions that threaten his very life. Julian Assange, and whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden are heroes, not criminals. The UK is conducting a hearing this week to determine whether to grant Trump’s request to extradite Julian Assange to the US for trial.

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Loreto V. Borce, Jr.

Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Commander

United States Army Garrison, Pohakuloa Training Area

P.O. Box 4607

Hilo, Hawaii 96720-0607                                                                                                                                                                                                 Feb. 12, 2020

 

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Aloha Commander Borce,

 

We first met you in front of the PTA main gate when we demonstrated against RIMPAC on June 30, 2018. You introduced us to your wife and agreed to a meeting at a later date.

The three of us had a meeting with you on September 22, 2018 between 11 a.m. to noon on the PTA base. At the meeting you emphasized the local roots of both yourself and your wife. You said that you were born on Oahu in Kalihi. Because you are local you wanted our relationship to be transparent and ohana-style. At that meeting we requested four things that we felt were doable:

We ask for a heart-to-heart talk ohana-style to be held with the public on Coconut Island in Hilo (previously a Pu`uhonua) on Saturday, April 25, 2020. (Saturday closest to the 50^th Anniversary of Earth Day) [It will have been 22 months since you first met us and emphasized doing things ohana-style!]

 

Mahalo.

 

Jim Albertini,

Ronald Fujiyoshi

Danny Li