Former military lawyer David McBride has won the right to appeal his conviction for blowing the whistle on Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Cathy Vogan reports from Canberra for Consortium News. https://youtu.be/YtjQlwzRxJ4 By Cathy Vogan in Canberra, Australia Special to Consortium News
Please support David's fight in court if you can: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride
Why are we allowing biased newspaper editors to frame our thinking? They're anti-genocide marches.
Julian Assange is to take part in this hearing, organised by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg...
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/21795594
> When? > > Oct 1st, 8:30am CEST > --- > --- > > More info on the event: > > https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-to-attend-a-pace-hearing-in-strasbourg-on-his-detention-and-conviction-and-their-chilling-effect-on-human-rights > >
Except when it can't make any calls because antenna firmware not having the right updates or some bs like that. This industry is a hot mess and I'm about to tap out.
Yea. That's part of it. Keep reading.
Honestly, I'm sick of this industry and wasting my money on them. I'll make do with a new $100 phone from the post office in case I need to make an emergency call. 000 will still work even without a sim.
Over many years the providers & industry have been allowed to manufacture the problem and they now get the opportunity to sell customers the solution with new handsets, all whilst harming competition, increasing profits and cutting costs by shutting down the 3G network.
How is this legal?! So the likes of Telstra are blocking otherwise functional phones?
With Senator David Shoebridge & lawyer Eddie Lloyd.
David McBride, a military lawyer, was convicted and imprisoned for his disclosures to the ABC, Australia's national broadcaster, regarding serious misconduct by the country's Special Forces in Afghanistan.
On the very day McBride was sentenced, Australia's Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles, belatedly released an unclassified 3-year report from a body called 'The Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel'. He claimed that the release had been delayed, pending advice from the Office of Special Investigator, on whether the report “would, or could reasonably be expected to prejudice legal proceedings - specifically current and future war crimes prosecutions”.
The panel was to look into how cultural and professional reforms were being implemented in the Australian military, as had been the case for four years, and then in accordance with recommendations laid out in the 2020 Brereton Report, an inquiry into alleged crimes, including war crimes, committed by some Special Forces between 2005 and 2016. Brereton recommended that 19 soldiers be investigated by police for the "murder" of 39 Afghan prisoners and unarmed civilians, and the cruel treatment of two others. Besides McBride, only one soldier has been prosecuted to date, and oddly enough, McBride's case was neither cited as “current” by the Minister of Defence, nor by the Oversight Panel. Nor has its lengthy report had much attention from the media.
It's really not appropriate for a politician, the police minister to boot, to be calling anyone an 'idiot' in the same breath as demanding respect for the police. It's the sort of language I'd accept from a truck driver, not from a top politician.
He is setting the tone of the discussion in an extremely problematic way by dehumanising/othering those desparately trying to stop lethal weapons sales used in crimes against humanity, while he normalises the gathering of war profiteers.
I'm extremely disappainted by this government's policing policy.
"There's nothing but disrespect being shown from some protesters who want to behave like idiots and police will deal with you," he said.
our police minister, everyone.
PSA: respect has to be earned. An industry that arms crimes against humanity and genocide does not deserve respect.
The vic govt is funding this arms expo.
A lot of anti-protest rhetoric from the goverment here. Protesting is a fundamental democratic right.
Good to here Max Chandler Mather out there again showing some solidarity.
agreed. Is Ferguson always like this? Max did well not getting pushed around.
Does this mean the articles will read less like a tabloid and more like news again?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24046152
> Today, the 22nd of August 2024, marks 100 days since army lawyer David McBride was imprisoned in Canberra for exposing war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan. > > David stood up for truth and integrity, yet now he endures death threats and solitary confinement, while those responsible remain free. > > This is not how we should treat our whistleblowers in Australia! ⚖️ > > Demand justice! 📢 Take Action: > > - Contact Mark Dreyfus or your local MP today to express your support for David. > > - Create and share a social media post or a short video using the hashtag #SpeakUp4McBride to spread the word. > > - Donate to support David’s legal appeal to help get him out of jail: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride > > - Hang the provided poster in a high-visibility location, take a photo, and share it online to encourage others to join the movement. > > - 👍 Like, 💬 comment, and ↪️ share this message! > > #FreeMcBride. #Justice4Afghanistan.
Ian should be replaced.
AFP child abusers. Who cares about the cost. This operation was harmful to the community and to the child, who has a right to/needed proper education around ethics & morals not this cloak & dagger manipulation.
It's not a choice between blaming the scooter or the truck driver. It's a choice between building safe light-vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure or car-centric urban planning.
Cars and trucks are linked with injuries and hospital visits [edit: and deaths] of pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooters – but let's just blame the victim, shall we?
Wtf were they thinking! `-´
Photos presented as news should be real, not computer generated fakes.
Gabriel Shipton on his brother’s last shot at freedom.
This case is more controversial within the US government than you might think.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is at risk of suicide if the UK High Court next month rejects his final appeal against extradition to the US, his lawyer warns.
Julian Assange's supporters say a date has been set for the WikiLeaks founder's final appeal against extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.
Julian Assange's supporters say a date has been set for the WikiLeaks founder's final appeal against extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.
Stefania Maurizi, John Goetz and Christian Mihr discussed in Georg Büchner Buchladen (bookshop) in Berlin about: “What is the Purpose of Journalism if War
Stefania Maurizi, John Goetz and Christian Mihr discussed in Georg Büchner Buchladen (bookshop) in Berlin about: “What is the Purpose of Journalism if War Crimes Are Not Allowed to be Published?”.
I think this is a good question for discussion. What do you think?
For years the appeals process was dominated by the factor of Julian's mental health and whether or not he would survive US prison condition. Then after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal of the High Court ruling allowing flimsy US assurances, his application for a cross appeal of the ruling by the first instance court was finally allowed to be submitted - a document I highly recommend reading (Craig Murray published it this year). The judge then sat on it for the most part of a year before lazily rejecting it half a year ago in a 3 page document. His legal team immediately filed to have this decision appealed and have been waiting for a court date to be set for the past half year. It was said to be just a 30 minute sitting. This 2-judge panel court-date is the last avenue of appeal in the UK justice system to stop extradition to the US. Imagine being up in the air for year after year, always inching closer towards your biggest fear. This travesty must be stopped.
Previously classified papers detail how the US embassy in Canberra responded to WikiLeaks’ release of embassy cables in 2010 and ‘sensationalist’ local media
The United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a final appeal hearing that will be held on Feb. 20-21, 2024.
A federal judge ruled that four Americans who visited Assange in the Ecuador embassy may sue over the CIA's role in allegedly spying on them
A federal judge ruled that four Americans who visited Assange in the Ecuador embassy may sue over the CIA's role in allegedly spying on them
The United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a final appeal hearing that will be held on Feb. 20-21, 2024.
WikiLeaks founder fears a sentence of 175 years if he is extradited on charges related to disclosing classified information
https://stellaassangeofficial.substack.com/p/day-x-is-here
edit:
'Day X Is Here': Assange Granted Hearing That May Be Last Opportunity To Stop Extradition https://thedissenter.org/day-x-is-here-assange-granted-hearing-that-may-be-last-opportunity-to-stop-extradition/
And related news:
Judge Rules Assange Visitors May Sue CIA For Allegedly Violating Privacy https://thedissenter.org/judge-assange-visitors-may-sue-cia-for-spying/
Julian Assange’s Final Appeal to be held in UK High Court 20-21 February 2024
Day X is here. The public hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice will be on 20-21 February. It may be the final chance for the UK to stop Julian’s extradition.
Germany's anti-Deutsch used to be 'fringe weirdos'. Now their pro-Israel ideology has gone mainstream.
Watch Amy Goodman and The Intercept’s Ryan Grim co-chair the Belmarsh Tribunal on the case against imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the Vietnam War, the Belmarsh Tribunal brings together a range of expert witnesses — from constitutional lawye...
Watch Amy Goodman and The Intercept’s Ryan Grim co-chair the Belmarsh Tribunal on the case against imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the Vietnam War, the Belmarsh Tribunal brings together a range of expert witnesses — from constitutional lawyers to acclaimed journalists and human rights defenders — to present evidence of the assault on press freedom and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The tribunal was organized by Progressive International and the Wau Holland Foundation.
Members of the tribunal included:
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Ewen MacAskill, journalist and intelligence correspondent (formerly The Guardian)
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John Kiriakou, former intelligence officer for the CIA
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Sevim Dağdelen, member of the German Bundestag
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Lina Attalah, co-founder and chief editor of Mada Masr
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Abby Martin, journalist and host of The Empire Files
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Michael Sontheimer, journalist and historian (formerly Der Spiegel)
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Mark Feldstein, veteran investigative reporter and journalism historian at the University of Maryland
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Maja Sever, president of European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)
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Ben Wizner, lawyer and civil liberties advocate with the ACLU
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Marjorie Cohn, professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild
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Trevor Timm, journalist and co-founder of Freedom of the Press Foundation
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Ece Temelkuran, journalist and author
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Rebecca Vincent, director of campaigns, Reporters Without Borders>>
First outlets to publish WikiLeaks material, including the Guardian, come together to oppose prosecution
Related:
Watch: The Belmarsh Tribunal on Julian Assange, Press Freedom https://www.democracynow.org/live/watch_live_the_belmarsh_tribunal_on
A resolution introduced in the United States House of Representatives calls for an end to the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
The url has changed since I posted this. The correct url is
https://thedissenter.org/us-congress-resolution-urges-end-assange-case/