Month: Aug 2021

UK High Court sides with US against Assange, WSW,Thomas Scripps11 August 2021, The UK’s High Court has allowed the United States to appeal on two additional grounds the refusal of Julian Assange’s extradition by a lower court.Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks still held in Belmarsh maximum security prison, is threatened with extradition on charges under the Espionage Act with a potential life sentence for revealing state war crimes, torture, surveillance, corruption and coup plots.

On January 4, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser blocked extradition, ruling that it would be oppressive by virtue of his mental health and put him at substantial risk of suicide.Lawyers for the US government sought to appeal the decision on the five grounds:

1. That Baraitser made errors of law in her application of the test under section 91 of the 2003 Extradition Act, which bars extradition if the person’s mental or physical condition would…

A direct result of this is that only a tiny number of our 800 or so followers can see what we’re saying, and nobody follows us anymore…!

Also, when you respond to others’ tweets – no matter who they are – they don’t see it because the money-grubbing, advertisement-driven Silicon Valley suits either divert it to an online bin or file it away in a kind of “naughty” box.

Anyway, to hell with them, we thought we’d try publishing some of our tweets as very short blog posts. At least then there’s the consolation of knowing that we’re not being silenced and more people will be reading them.

This is the perennial problem with a New Media service that is free to both join and participate in.

Those who would have you censored on the quiet have absolutely no incentive to protect you as a customer. They owe you…

Our passion for freedom is stronger than the prison!

Last week people gathered outside HMP Eastwood park women’s prison to show solidarity with prisoners who have recently experienced increased levels of violence from prison guards. They chanted “you are not alone” and made noise so that the people inside could know that they are supported, and that the violence that they experience behind the prison walls will not go on unnoticed.

People also gathered and made noise at HMP Bristol to show solidarity with the prisoners and also let the recently convicted KTB prisoners know that they have support from the wider community, and that people are outraged at the harsh sentencing for those who went to protest against more police powers and tougher sentences.

Ways to support the Kill The Bill Protesters include sending letters, donating to the croudfunders and helping to change the narrative that this was mindless…