28/Mai/2019,
Resistir.info (Portugal) https://www.resistir.info/varios/assange_25mai19.html
por Julian Assange
Nos primeiros comentários públicos após
a sua prisão, Julian Assange, fundador e editor da WikiLeaks, pormenorizou as
condições repressivas que enfrenta na prisão britânica de Belmarsh e apelou a
uma campanha contra a ameaça da sua extradição para os Estados Unidos.
Os comentários de Assange foram formulados em carta dirigida ao jornalista britânico independente Gordon Dimmack, o qual decidiu torná-la pública na sequência do anúncio feito quinta-feira passada pelo Ministério da Justiça dos EUA de novas acusações contra Assange com base numa antiga lei sobre espionagem.
Os comentários de Assange foram formulados em carta dirigida ao jornalista britânico independente Gordon Dimmack, o qual decidiu torná-la pública na sequência do anúncio feito quinta-feira passada pelo Ministério da Justiça dos EUA de novas acusações contra Assange com base numa antiga lei sobre espionagem.
Eis o texto completo da carta e Assange a Gordon Dimmack:
Fui isolado de toda capacidade para preparar a minha defesa, nem laptop,
nem internet, nem computador, nem biblioteca até agora, mas mesmo que eu
obtenha acesso [à biblioteca] será apenas por meia hora junto com toda a gente
uma vez por semana. Apenas duas visitas por mês e leva semanas para conseguir
[inserir] alguém na lista de entrada. É uma situação sem saída (Catch-22) conseguir
que os seus pormenores sejam examinados pela segurança. Assim, todas as
chamadas excepto com o advogado são gravadas e são num máximo de 10 minutos e
num [período] limitado de 30 minutos em cada dia no qual todos os prisioneiros
competem pelo telefone. E o crédito? Apenas algumas libras por semana e ninguém
pode ligar.
[Estou diante de] uma superpotência que tem estado a preparar-se durante nove anos com centenas de pessoas e incontáveis milhões gastos no caso. Estou indefeso e conto consigo e outros de bom carácter para salvar minha vida.
Estou intacto embora literalmente cercado de assassinos. Mas os dias em que eu podia ler, falar e organizar para defender a mim próprio, os meus ideais e o meu povo estão acabados até eu estar livre. Todos os demais devem tomar o meu lugar.
O governo dos EUA, ou melhor, aqueles elementos lamentáveis que odeiam a verdade, a liberdade e a justiça querem trapacear a fim de obter minha extradição e morte ao invés de permitir ao público que ouça a verdade pela qual ganhei os maiores prémios de jornalismo e ter sido nomeado sete vezes para o Prémio Nobel da Paz.
Em última análise, a verdade é tudo o que temos.
[Estou diante de] uma superpotência que tem estado a preparar-se durante nove anos com centenas de pessoas e incontáveis milhões gastos no caso. Estou indefeso e conto consigo e outros de bom carácter para salvar minha vida.
Estou intacto embora literalmente cercado de assassinos. Mas os dias em que eu podia ler, falar e organizar para defender a mim próprio, os meus ideais e o meu povo estão acabados até eu estar livre. Todos os demais devem tomar o meu lugar.
O governo dos EUA, ou melhor, aqueles elementos lamentáveis que odeiam a verdade, a liberdade e a justiça querem trapacear a fim de obter minha extradição e morte ao invés de permitir ao público que ouça a verdade pela qual ganhei os maiores prémios de jornalismo e ter sido nomeado sete vezes para o Prémio Nobel da Paz.
Em última análise, a verdade é tudo o que temos.
25/Maio/2019
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original encontra-se em https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/25/assa-m25.html
e a versão em francês em https://www.legrandsoir.info/j-ai-recu-une-lettre-de-julian-assange.html
e a versão em francês em https://www.legrandsoir.info/j-ai-recu-une-lettre-de-julian-assange.html
J’ai reçu une lettre de Julian Assange
26
mai 2019, Le Grand Soir
https://www.legrandsoir.info/j-ai-recu-une-lettre-de-julian-assange.html
Dans ses premiers commentaires
publics aux partisans depuis son arrestation, Julian Assange, fondateur et
éditeur de WikiLeaks, a détaillé les conditions répressives auxquelles il fait
face dans la prison britannique de Belmarsh et a appelé à une campagne contre
sa menace d’extradition vers les États-Unis.
Les
commentaires d’Assange ont été formulés dans une lettre adressée au journaliste
britannique indépendant Gordon
Dimmack, qui a décidé de la rendre publique à la suite de
l’annonce faite jeudi dernier par le ministère US de la Justice de nouvelles
accusations contre Assange en vertu de la loi sur l’espionnage.
J’ai été
privé de toute capacité de préparer ma défense, sans ordinateur, sans Internet,
pas de bibliothèque jusqu’à présent, et même si j’y avais accès, ce ne serait
qu’une fois par semaine et pour une demi-heure avec tous les autres [détenus].
Pas plus de deux visites par mois et il faut des semaines pour inscrire
quelqu’un sur la liste des visiteurs à condition de fournir toutes leurs
coordonnées pour faire l’objet d’une enquête de sécurité. Ensuite, tous les
appels, à l’exception de ceux des avocats, sont enregistrés et d’une durée
maximale de 10 minutes dans une période limitée de 30 minutes par jour, pendant
laquelle tous les détenus se disputent le téléphone. Et le crédit ? Juste
quelques livres sterling par semaine et personne ne peut appeler de
l’extérieur.
En
face ? Une superpuissance qui se prépare depuis 9 ans et qui a consacré de
centaines de personnes et dépensé des millions sur cette affaire. Je suis sans
défense et je compte sur vous et d’autres personnes de valeur pour me sauver la
vie.
Je suis
toujours debout, mais littéralement entouré de meurtriers. Mais l’époque où je
pouvais lire, parler et m’organiser pour me défendre, défendre mes idéaux et
mon équipe est révolu jusqu’à ce que je retrouve ma liberté. Ce sont tous les autres qui doivent prendre ma
place.
Le gouvernement américain ou plutôt
les éléments regrettables qui le composent et qui abhorrent la vérité, la
liberté et la justice, cherchent par n’importe quel moyen à obtenir mon
extradition et ma mort au lieu de laisser le public entendre la vérité pour
laquelle j’ai remporté les plus hautes distinctions en journalisme et été
nominé sept fois pour le prix Nobel de la paix.
En fin de compte, tout ce que nous
avons est la vérité.
Julian Assange
Traduction "s’ils comprennent
un jour, ils comprendront trop tard" par VD pour le Grand Soir avec
probablement toutes les fautes et coquilles habituelles
Source de la transcription de la
lettre ici : https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/25/assa-m25.html avec ajout d’un petit bout manquant
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“Truth ultimately is all we have:” Julian Assange appeals for public support
25 May 2019, World Socialist Web Site https://www.wsws.org (Australia) https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/25/assa-m25.html
By Oscar Grenfell
In his first publicly-released comments to supporters since his arrest,
WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has detailed the repressive
conditions he faces in Britain’s Belmarsh prison and called for a campaign
against his threatened extradition to the United States.
“I am defenceless and am counting on
you and others of good character to save my life,” Assange wrote, adding,
“Truth ultimately is all we have.”
Julian Assange
Assange’s comments were made in a
letter addressed to independent British journalist Gordon
Dimmack, who
decided to make it public following last Thursday’s announcement by the US
Justice Department of additional charges against Assange under the Espionage
Act. The WSWS is republishing the letter, with Dimmack’s permission, in full
below.
Assange explained that since he was
convicted on trumped-up bail charges shortly after his arrest on April 11, he
has been “isolated from all ability to prepare to defend myself, no laptop, no
internet, no computer, no library so far, but even if I do get access it will
be just for half an hour with everyone else once a week.”
The WikiLeaks founder stated that he
is allowed “Just two visits a month and it takes weeks to get someone on the
call list.”
All of his calls, except those to
his lawyers, are monitored and limited to a maximum of ten minutes. There is a
window of just 30 minutes per day for phone calls to be made “in which all
prisoners compete for the phone.” Assange receives only a few pounds of phone
credit per week and is not allowed to receive inbound calls.
The WikiLeaks founder declared that,
despite these onerous conditions, he is “unbroken albeit literally surrounded
by murderers. But the days when I could read and speak and organise to defend
myself, my ideals and my people are over until I am free. Everyone else must
take my place.”
The WikiLeaks founder stated that he
faced “A superpower” that has “been preparing for 9 years with hundreds of
people and untold millions spent” on the case against him.
He warned that “The US government or
rather those regrettable elements in it that hate truth liberty and justice
want to cheat their way into my extradition and death rather than letting the
public hear the truth for which I have won the highest awards in journalism and
have been nominated seven times for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
The unveiling of the US charges is a
vindication of Assange’s warnings, in the letter and over the past nine years,
that he faces a politically-motivated US prosecution for his role in WikiLeaks’
exposures of war crimes, mass surveillance operations and global diplomatic
conspiracies.
The 17 counts against Assange carry
a combined maximum prison sentence of 175 years. They are an unprecedented
attempt to criminalise investigative journalism, and abolish the free press
protections of the US Constitution’s First Amendment.
The charges centre on WikiLeaks’
receipt and publication of classified US government documents. These core
journalistic practices are presented as criminal activities which “risked
serious harm to United States national security to the benefit of our
adversaries.”
The documents covered include the
Afghan war logs, which exposed the extrajudicial killing of civilians by US-led
forces, and other violations of international law.
Assange’s letter further exposes the
ongoing political conspiracy against him, which included his illegal expulsion
from Ecuador’s London embassy and detention by the British authorities.
The WikiLeaks founder was convicted,
within hours of his arrest, on the British charges. The judge dismissed the
fact that the offenses were effectively resolved years ago as a result of
Assange’s forfeiture of bail monies, his years of arbitrary detention in the
small embassy building and his United Nations-upheld status as a political
refugee.
Despite the minor character of the
bail conviction, Assange has been held in virtual isolation in a maximum
security prison. This is a clear attempt to hinder his defence against the
Trump administration’s extradition request, and the revived Swedish
investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, which is aimed at
blackening his name and creating an alternate route for him to be dispatched to
a US prison.
Assange’s call for a campaign in his
defence coincides with growing opposition to his persecution and to the
Espionage Act charges against him.
In a Tweet shared almost 5,000
times, investigative journalist John Pilger warned that “The war on Julian
#Assange is now a war on all. Eighteen absurd charges including espionage send
a burning message to every journalist, every publisher… Modern fascism is
breaking cover.”
The American Civil Liberties Union
branded the charges “an extraordinary escalation of the Trump administration’s
attacks on journalism, establishing a dangerous precedent that can be used to
target all news organizations that hold the government accountable by
publishing its secrets.”
The Freedom of the Press Foundation
described them as “the most significant and terrifying threat to the First
Amendment in the 21st century.”
In Australia, there are mounting
calls for the government to fulfil its obligations to Assange as an Australian
citizen and journalist. Former Labor politician Bob Carr yesterday cynically
warned that Foreign Minister Marise Payne “needs to protect herself from the
charge that she’s failed in her duty to protect the life of an Australian
citizen”.
Greg Barns, an Australian-based
advisor to Assange, declared “Australia does have a role to play here and our
view is that the Australian government needs to intervene.” He said the US
prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder was aimed at applying US domestic law
extraterritorially. This meant that “anyone who publishes information the US
deems to be classified anywhere in the world” could be targeted by the US
government.
Over the past 18 months, the WSWS
and the Socialist Equality Parties (SEP) around the world have played a
prominent role in the struggle against the stepped-up persecution of Assange.
The SEP (Australia) has held a
series of rallies, demanding that the Australian government secure Assange’s
release from Britain and return to Australia, with a guarantee against
extradition to the US.
The events, addressed by SEP
national secretary James Cogan, and well-known fighters for civil liberties,
including Pilger, Consortium News editor-in-chief Joe Lauria and
Professor Stuart Rees, have been attended by hundreds of workers, students and
young people.
The SEP (Britain) held a powerful
public meeting in London on May 12, which brought together 150 defenders of
Assange, and featured speakers from around the world. It was streamed live on
Dimmack’s YouTube page to an audience of thousands.
On May 18, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
held a rally in Berlin, attended by 300 people, under the banner “freedom for
Julian Assange.”
Over the coming weeks, the WSWS and
the SEP’s will intensify the struggle against Assange’s extradition to the US,
and for his complete freedom. We appeal to all supporters of civil liberties to
join us in this crucial fight, which is the spearhead of the defence of
democratic rights and against imperialist war.
Assange’s next hearing is set for
Thursday May 30 at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. We urge all readers
of the WSWS in the UK to attend.
Below is the full text of Assange’s letter to Gordon Dimmack:
I have been isolated from all
ability to prepare to defend myself, no laptop, no internet, no computer, no
library so far, but even if I do get access it will be just for half an hour
with everyone else once a week. Just two visits a month and it takes weeks to
get someone on the call list and the Catch-22 in getting their details to be
security screened. Then all calls except lawyer are recorded and are a maximum
10 minutes and in a limited 30 minutes each day in which all prisoners compete
for the phone. And credit? Just a few pounds a week and no one can call in.
A superpower that has been preparing
for 9 years with hundreds of people and untold millions spent on the case. I am
defenceless and am counting on you and others of good character to save my life.
I am unbroken albeit literally
surrounded by murderers. But the days when I could read and speak and organise
to defend myself, my ideals and my people are over until I am free. Everyone
else must take my place.
The US government or rather those
regrettable elements in it that hate truth liberty and justice want to cheat
their way into my extradition and death rather than letting the public hear the
truth for which I have won the highest awards in journalism and have been nominated seven times for the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Truth
ultimately is all we have.
The Campaign to Free Julian Assange
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