Articles by Oscar Grenfell
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As Israel Bombs Ambulances and Levels Refugee Camp, Netanyahu Receives Bipartisan Invitation to Address US Congress
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – Signaling support for the genocidal Israeli onslaught, the Democratic and Republican parties issued a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday [31 May], hailing him in the fight against “terrorism” and inviting him to address the US Congress.
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Ten Years Since WikiLeaks and Assange Published the Guantánamo Files
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
1 May 2021 – Last week marked a decade since WikiLeaks published a tranche of 779 secret files from the US government’s Guantánamo Bay military prison, revealing in greater detail than ever before the global dragnet of illegal detention associated with the fraudulent “war on terror.”
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Assange’s Partner Exposes Ongoing Denial of His Legal and Democratic Rights
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
22 Feb 2021 – Assange is still being denied proper access to his lawyers and to crucial legal documents. In an online post last week, Stella Moris, the partner of Julian Assange and mother of his two young children, outlined the ongoing denial of the WikiLeaks founder’s fundamental legal and democratic rights, even after a British Magistrates’ Court ruled early last month against his extradition to the United States.
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New Documents Show Mueller Investigation Unable to Concoct Charges against Assange and WikiLeaks
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
6 Nov 2020 – Previously redacted portions of the Mueller report into supposed Russian interference in the US, released this week, have shown that despite every effort, the Justice Department was unable to concoct evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on the part of WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The revelations demonstrate that the US state has been seeking to manufacture a criminal prosecution of Assange for years, in response to his exposure of its war crimes and corruption.
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Ten Years since WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Published the Iraq War Logs
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 – Today marks a decade since WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs, the most comprehensive exposure of imperialist criminality and neo-colonial banditry since the Pentagon Papers of the 1970s revealed the scale of American military activities in Vietnam, and perhaps of all time. In minute detail, the logs exposed all of the […]
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Julian Assange Receives First Visitors in Six Months: “He Is in a Lot of Pain”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
28 Aug 2020 – Stella Morris, Assange’s partner and an internationally-respected human rights attorney, was allowed to meet with the WikiLeaks founder earlier this week. It was the first time that Morris and their two young children Gabriel and Max had seen Assange since March 22. The visit is welcome news but it has underscored the brutal conditions in which he is held by the British authorities, despite not having been convicted of any crime.
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In Letter to the Lancet, Doctors Condemn Torture of Assange and Demand His Release
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
26 Jun 2020 – More than 200 eminent doctors from around the world have reiterated their call for an end to the psychological torture of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and his immediate release from Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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US Indictment of Assange Based on Testimony of FBI Assets, Convicted Child Molester
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
In Thordarson, a convicted paedophile and conman, and Monsegur, a former petty criminal turned stool pigeon, the US government has found the fitting representatives of its campaign against Assange. The reliance on testimony from both men demonstrates that the US extradition request should be dismissed as a criminal operation, involving individuals who themselves should be in prison.
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UN Rapporteur Nils Melzer Exposes British Government Attempts to Obstruct His Defence of Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – At a meeting in London’s St. Pancras New Church on Monday [3 Feb] night, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer provided new information about the efforts of the British government and the establishment media to hinder his defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Melzer revealed he had “been asking the BBC for an interview for nine months.” He had offered to appear on the “Hard Talk” program to discuss Assange’s case, but had been rebuffed with the claim that it would not be “newsworthy.”
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Corporate Media Silent on Journalists’ Letter Demanding Freedom for Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019 – In a glaring act of political censorship, media corporations in the English-speaking world have maintained a complete silence on a powerful open letter by journalists and media workers issued last weekend demanding the unconditional freedom of Julian Assange. The blackout occurs under conditions where doctors have warned that Assange’s health has deteriorated to the point that he may die in Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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Groundswell of Support for WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
30 Nov 2019 – Over the past week, a growing groundswell of opposition to the US-led persecution of Julian Assange has come to the surface of political life internationally. Prominent public figures in Britain, Europe and Australia, including doctors, journalists, politicians and United Nations representatives, have condemned the WikiLeaks founder’s imprisonment in the UK’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison.
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Conference at European Parliament Defends Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
At the European Parliament in Brussels on14 Nov, MEPs and prominent public figures condemned the US-led persecution of the WikiLeaks founder and called for his freedom. Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, remarked: “Two hundred years ago on this continent we were ruled by people who had absolute power. We decided we didn’t like that. We created states that were to be democracies governed by the people.”
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UN Rapporteur Nils Melzer Warns: Julian Assange May Die in British Prison
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
4 Nov 2019 – United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer has issued a chilling warning: If WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is not urgently released from prison and provided the medical care he requires, he may die behind bars in Britain. In accompanying comments to the Associated Free Press, Melzer said that his statement was based on “new medically relevant information.”
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Britain Obstructs Spanish Investigation into CIA Spying on Julian Assange
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
El País reported on Wednesday [23 Oct] that a request by Spanish judge José de la Mata to interview Assange via videolink had been rejected by the UK. He is investigating a complaint by Assange’s lawyers alleging that UC Global, the private company hired to provide security to Ecuador’s London embassy, illegally surveilled him on behalf of US authorities while he was protected with political asylum inside the building.
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UN Official’s Briefing on Torture of Assange Boycotted by Media
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
18 Oct 2019 – As it was, footage aired by the Russian-funded RT outlet showed a grand total of four people in the audience, surrounded by rows of empty chairs. To date, the RT article, and an accompanying video, appears to be the only report on the briefing by any media outlet in the world.
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British Judge Jails Assange Indefinitely, Despite End of Prison Sentence
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
14 Sep 2019 – In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange will remain in prison, despite the fact that his custodial sentence for “absconding” bail expires on Sep 22. The ruling is the latest in a series of attacks on Assange’s legal and democratic rights by the British judiciary.
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Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson: They Are Trying to Break Assange “Physically and Psychologically”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
28 Aug 2019 – Australian clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson has been an outspoken defender of Julian Assange. Earlier this year she wrote an extensive five-part investigative series titled “The Psychology of Getting Julian Assange.” Johnson provided the following responses to a series of questions earlier this week.
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John Pilger Warns: “Do Not Forget Assange. Or You Will Lose Him”
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
9 Aug 2019 – In a tweet that has been shared more than 10,000 times, Pilger wrote: “Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him. I saw him in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated. Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition. I now fear for him. Do not forget him.”. Christine Assange, Julian’s mother, responded to Pilger’s update with a series of tweets.
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Julian Assange’s Lawyer Briefs Australian Parliamentarians on His Persecution
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – As many as 30 federal Australian parliamentarians attended a closed-door legal briefing by Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for Julian Assange, at Canberra’s parliament house yesterday. The MPs included representatives of the conservative parties, Labor and the Greens. The barrister outlined the dire implications for press freedom and democratic rights of the US-led persecution of Assange.
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Oscar Grenfell | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Anzac Day celebrations on April 25 were used by the Australian political and media establishment to reaffirm its commitment to US-led wars and military preparations around the world, and to try to drown out widespread anti-war sentiment among working people.
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