You cant firewall facts, logic or consequent changes of sentiment between these countries. Declassified UK. PS: why the Arbuthnots are so exceptionally ugly? This cookie is set by the Bidswitch. Profound support for Asssange has come from 60 mins in Australia and it is starting to surface with the ABC too. Last October, Europe minister Christopher Pincher attended the forum in Edinburgh and, dialogue illustrates the breadth and depth of the relationship between the United Kingdom and Spain. Vanessa Baraitser looked at this point very keen to lock someone up. The purpose of the cookie is currently not identified. I do not find that Mr Assanges stay in the Embassy is inappropriate, unjust, unpredictable, unreasonable, unnecessary or disproportionate.. A judiciary spokesman has. This cookie is set by Casalemedia and is used for targeted advertisement purposes. The shameful behavior of The Mighty Wurlitzer exposes them as nothing more than shills for Empire duping the masses on a daily basis. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Then foreign minister Tobias Ellwood, at the forum while former foreign secretary Jack Straw, who is a, one of the discussions. Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth. That struck me, too, though I wondered whether it was a deliberate obfuscation. "Who will then dare to expose anything of importance, let alone the high crimes of the West? We have not put it behind a paywall because the truth should not be a luxury. The request itself violates the US-UK Extradition Treaty and International law because it is for political offences; The US Government has misrepresented the core facts of the case to the British courts; and. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located. It was in every single one of the United States extradition treaties with other countries, and had been for over a century, at the insistence of the United States. In more recent entries to the register of interests, the address is given by MPs as simply private. Judge Vanessa Baraitser delivered the judgement at the central criminal court in London. She is present on the list of these on the judiciary website. Responding to Declassifieds Freedom of Information request for communications between the minister and Tertulias or an itinerary for the Bilbao meeting, DEFRA responded: Following a search of our paper and electronic records, we have established that the informationyou have requested is not held by DEFRA. It is unclear if Truss used a private email to organise the visit. I accept that Mr Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition proceedings but I do not find that Mr Assanges fears were reasonable, she said. Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. Me too, Skip, me too. Securely by check, creditcard or on Patreon: Make your tax-deductible donation by clicking here. So we used Westlaw + Factiva to construct her extradition case list pic.twitter.com/ViCuMHhe6i Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) January 3, 2021 includes supporting and guiding district judge colleagues, including Vanessa Baraitser, who ruled on the case in 2019. Britains Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assanges extradition, reports Declassified UK. This cookie is set by Google. Duncan, who has now left office, personally insulted Julian Assange in parliament in 2018 before adding: It is of great regret that Julian Assange remains in the Ecuador embassy, where he had been given political asylum by the Ecuadorian government. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected arguments from Assange's lawyers that the case against the 49-year-old Australian was politically motivated. It is not known if Lady Arbuthnot was present. Ms Gebhardt had since moved to Germany and is now sole carer for her 8-year-old daughter. Assanges lawyers had applied to have his British arrest warrant withdrawn. Julian Assange could be a free man as early as Wednesday after a British judge ruled that he cannot be extradited to the . Following these meetings Patel lobbied for UK involvement in Israeli operations in the Golan Heights and called for Britain to begin sending military aid to Israel. was openly set up by the UK government, but, is also closely linked to the Foreign Office, which. [1] Julian was a gentle, intellectual man and not a terrorist. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. All of the information is exempt from disclosure under section 32 of the FOIA because it is held in a court record., It added that: Section 32 is an absolute exemption and there is no duty to consider the public interest in disclosure.. Like its US counterpart, the UKs so called justice system is one big game of Lets Pretend. On May 15, 2020, Declassifiedsent a further FOI request, this time to the Home Office, asking for information on any phone calls or emails made or received by the current Home Secretary Priti Patel concerning the Assange case. 20 April 2022:The Magistrate issues the extradition order, which is sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel for approval. Declassified recently revealed how the AEI, which has a strongly anti-Assange position, has been courting British ministers for years. Lady Arbuthnots husband is a key figure in the British military and intelligence establishment a highly controversial issue given that Lady Arbuthnot has made rulings in the Assange case and continues to oversee it as chief magistrate. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is opressive (s.91). Sitting in London, Lord Justice Holroyde said he believed it was arguable that Judge Vanessa Baraitser had attached too much weight to the evidence of Prof Michael Kopelman when deciding not to . It is not known if Lady Arbuthnot was present. [1] In February 2019, she ordered the extradition of Alexandre Djouhri suspected of funnelling money from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to finance Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. The cookie is set by Krux Digital under the domain krxd.net. I dont care about who rules the world nonsense. The UK delegation to the 2014 meeting in Istanbul was, in Edinburgh the previous year. General purpose platform session cookies that are used to maintain users' state across page requests. Otherwise they would not have removed the bar in previous legislation. Declassified also revealed that the Arbuthnots son is linked to an anti-data leak company created by the UK intelligence establishment and staffed by officials recruited from US intelligence agencies behind that countrys prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder. Good sleuthing, Terje. In a keyjudgmentin February 2018, Arbuthnot rejected the findings of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention a body composed of international legal experts that Assange was beingarbitrarily detained, characterised Assanges stay in the embassy as voluntary and concluded Assanges health and mental state was of minor importance. Baraitser has ordered the extradition of defendants to at least 11 countries in this period, including one person to the U.S. Six of the extraditions, or 26 percent of the rulings, were successfully appealed. Labour minister Peter Mandelson, forum following official advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office., attended by Truss and the Arbuthnots, a Spanish banker was. Declassifiedrecentlyrevealed that Assange is one of just two of the 797 inmates in Belmarsh being held for violating bail conditions. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. In a second ruling a week later, ArbuthnotdismissedAssanges fears of U.K. extradition. Since Arbuthnot has not formally recused herself, Assanges defence team cannot revisit her rulings while it also could have left open the possibility of her choosing which of her junior judges was to preside over the Assange case. Anyway Le Grand Soir has published a translation of my report yesterday, and there you can see a photo of Julian in his bulletproof glass anti-terrorist cage. And his behaviour is that of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests, Snow told the court. I aways believed that UK stood for United Kingdom. She wore a wedding dress designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood - who has campaigned to stop the extradition of Mr Assange. Prisoners, even the most dangerous of terrorists, gave evidence from the witness box in the body of the court nest to the lawyers and magistrate. Holograms have more empathy. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. in 2012, at which time he was also chair of parliaments Defence Committee. They tweet at @DCKennard and @markcurtis30. He was not, he suggested diffidently, quite sure that it was correct that it required bail for Julian to be in the body of the court, or that being in the body of the court accompanied by security officers meant that a prisoner was no longer in custody. 4 January 2021:Westminster Magistrates Court discharges (throws out) the U.S. extradition request against Julian Assange. Justice has to be seen to be done.. In her January 2021 ruling blocking the extradition, then-district judge Vanessa Baraitser found in favour of the US on all issues except Assange's mental health. The Perfected Grounds of Appeal contain the arguments on which Julian Assange intends to challenge District Judge Vanessa Baraitsers decision of 4 January 2021, and introduces significant new evidence that has developed since that ruling. Two years before, Truss who is now Trade Secretary and Lady Arbuthnot both attended an off-the-record two-day meeting in Bilbao, Spain. The scale of obvious bribery to Arbuthnot, Baraitser, all officers in UK that did lap dog duty outside Embassy I can hardly fathom. Why Alex Murdaugh was spared the death penalty, Why Trudeau is facing calls for a public inquiry, The shocking legacy of the Dutch 'Hunger Winter'. This cookie is set by Segment.io. Mr Assange faces an 18-count indictment from the US government, which accuses him of conspiring to hack into military databases to acquire sensitive information relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The Biden Justice Department on Friday formally appealed a British judge's rejection of the U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange, confirming the new administration's intention to run with its predecessor's espionage charges against the WikiLeaks publisher despite warnings that the case endangers press freedoms around the world. It has now been moved back to the Old Bailey, the central criminal court of England and Wales. Liz Truss, then Justice Secretary, advised the Queen to appoint Lady Arbuthnot in October 2016. "Her face was a progression of sneers and imperious indifference; she addressed Julian with an arrogance that reminded me of a magistrate presiding over apartheid South Africa's Race Classification Board. This Cookie is set by DoubleClick which is owned by Google. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would . She told Declassified that. Erdoan spoke at the meeting and reportedly called for the removal of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser denied extradition on health grounds, saying Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. The warrant related to Assange skipping bail to claim asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, where the Ecuadorian government agreed that he was at risk of political persecution in the United States. Arbuthnot has personallyreceivedfinancial benefits from partner organisations of the UK Foreign Office, which in 2018calledAssange a miserable little worm. . If convicted on all charges, Assange would have faced a maximum of 175 years in prison, according to The New York Times. 2023 BBC. Whats the rate of other judges? District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who is still overseen by Lady Arbuthnot will rule on the extradition proceedings which begin on 25 February. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is "opressive" (s.91). She then routinely ignores his response. She has refused to recuse herself despite an obvious conflict of interest stemming from her husband's former job as a Conservative Defence Minister and his work with the Henry Jackson . An internal review into the rejection ofDeclassifiedsfreedom of information (FOI) request upheld the rejection. From: bonnieweinstein <giobon@xxxxxxxxxxx>; To: BAUAW <bauaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 08:30:18 -0800; SHUT DOWN DRONE WARFARESpring Action Week: April 15 - 22, 2023Holloman AFB, Southern New Mexico Co-sponsored by CODEPINK & Ban Killer Drones Mark your calendars & Join Us! Lady Arbuthnot is also likely to have approved of Baraitsers appointment to hear the Assange case. The main business activity of this cookie is targeting and advertising. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has married his long-term partner at a high-security prison in London. The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, is a welcome legal victory, but one swamped by larger lessons that should disturb us deeply. It is likely that Chief Magistrate Lady Emma Arbuthnot was involved in the decision to appoint Baraitser to the case. That is an appeal court and would follow appeals to the British High Court and Supreme Court should Assange lose. The case is sent back to the Magistrates Court with instruction to issue the extradition order. Stores information about how the user uses the website such as what pages have been loaded and any other advertisement before visiting the website for the purpose of targeted advertisements. These decisions include. The. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. The Foreign Office has long taken a strong anti-Assange position, rejecting UN findings in his favour, refusing to recognise the political asylum given to him by Ecuador, and even labelling Assange a miserable little worm. This cookie also helps to understand which sale has been generated by as a result of the advertisement served by third party. In more recent. Anna, excellent post! This cookie is used for measuring the efficiency of advertisement by registering data on visitors from multiple website. Since the last ruling, overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that the United States prosecution against my husband is a criminal abuse. Copyright 2023 . Despite the HM Courts and Tribunals Service invoking a data protection clause. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Lady Arbuthnot is also likely to have approved of Baraitsers appointment to hear the Assange case. On April 10, 2020 Declassifiedsent an identical information request to the MOJ asking for a case list for a different district judge, Justin Barron, who wasappointedon the same day as Baraitser in October 2011. The purpose of the cookie is not known yet. Video, Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims, US-made cheese can be called 'gruyere' - court, AOC under investigation for Met Gala dress, The children left behind in Cuba's exodus, Nelson's 97th-minute stunner gives Arsenal victory, Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore dies at 61, Alex Murdaugh's legal troubles are far from over, Walkie Talkie architect Rafael Violy dies aged 78. Assanges claims that Lady Arbuthnot was conflicted: His assertion that he has not had a fair hearing is laughable. Priscilla Felia, thank you for posting Lady Emma Arbuthnots address. Julian Assange suffers a transient ischemic attack (TIA) on the first day. Liz Truss was in Bilbao for three days and accrued expenses of 1,235.48 paid by Tertulias. Patel loudly protested that Mays Foreign Secretary Boris [Johnson] knew about her meetings with Israeli officials. 14 March 2022:The Supreme Court refuses Julian Assange permission to appeal the High Courts decision. The information is used for determining when and how often users will see a certain banner. Arbuthnot is currently the chair of the advisory board of arms corporation Thales UK and board member of Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, whose president is former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. Jan 4, 2021 (RT) Jubilant scenes have greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser's decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London's Old Bailey courthouse. Lord Arbuthnot was from 2016-17 a director of. What's the least amount of exercise we can get away with? "Ms Baraitser is not fond of photography she appears to be the only public figure in Western Europe with no photo on the internet. The domain of this cookie is owned by Dataxu. This article "Vanessa Baraitser" is from Wikipedia. By Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard "In his diffident manner (which I confess is growing on me) Lewis said 'the prosecution is neutral on this request, of course but, err, I really dont think thats right'. This cookie is used by Google to make advertising more engaging to users and are stored under doubleclick.net. "The UK and US Governments say that the court enforces domestic law, not international law, and therefore the treaty has no standing. Baraitser has been criticised for a number of her judgments so far concerning Assange, who has been incarcerated in a maximum security prison, HMP Belmarsh in London, since April 2019. The Arbuthnots rabid hatred towards Assange is not difficult to explain since Assange has exposed war crimes committed by the US/UK troops during the Wars for Israel.