For today, several links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio, ScheerPost, and Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE and GAZA entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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WikiLeaks’ Assange faces wait to find out whether he can challenge extradition to the U.S., by Jill Lawless and Sylvia Hui | AP LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won’t find out until next month at the earliest whether he can challenge extradition to the U.S. on spying charges, or if his long legal battle in Britain has run out of road. Two High Court judges said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Assange wanted for ‘indiscriminately’ publishing sources’ names, U.S. lawyers say, by Sam Tobin | Reuters LONDON — Julian Assange is being prosecuted for publishing sources’ names and not his political opinions, lawyers representing the United States said on Wednesday as the WikiLeaks founder’s latest fight to stop his extradition from Britain concluded. READ MORE . . .
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What a Julian Assange conviction could mean for the future of press freedom. Reported by Vincent Acovino, Patrick Jarenwattananon and Mary Louise Kelly | NPR Kelly talks with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University’s Jameel Jaffer about arguments that prosecuting Julian Assange would threaten press freedom. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Julian Assange’s Day in Court, by Chris Hedges | Original to ScheerPost The physical and psychological disintegration of Julian, seven years trapped in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and nearly five years held on remand in the high-security HM Prison Belmarsh, was always the point, what Nils Melzer the former U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture calls his “slow-motion execution.” READ MORE . . .
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FROM FEB. 21 Assange timeline exposes U.S. motives, by Joe Lauria | Special to Consortium News LONDON — On Day One of Julian Assange’s attempt to appeal Britain’s order to extradite him to the United States, his lawyers laid out a timeline that exposed U.S. motives to destroy the journalist who revealed their high-level state crimes. READ MORE . . .