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07-12-2010, 06:02 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11937110
Wikileaks founder refused bail after being arrested under the notorious European Arrest Warant
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Assange has been arrested in the UK under the European Arrest Warrant
Mr Assange denies sexually assaulting two women in Sweden. He was remanded in custody pending a hearing next week. A judge at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court refused bail because of the risk of the 39-year-old fleeing. A Wikileaks spokesman said the arrest was an attack on media freedom and pledged to continue publishing. Mr Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens said after the court appearance he would be applying again for bail. He also claimed the charges were "politically motivated" and he said the judge was keen to see the evidence against Mr Assange, an Australian citizen. Mr Stephens also said Wikileaks would continue to publish material and added: "We are on cable 301 and there are 250,000 secret cables."
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Assange's arrest was "a matter for the police" and there had been no ministerial involvement. Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said it would not stop the release of more secret files and told Reuters on Tuesday: "Wikileaks is operational. We are continuing on the same track as laid out before. "Any development with regards to Julian Assange will not change the plans we have with regards to the releases today and in the coming days."
Mr Assange has come in for criticism in the past week for the revelations made on Wikileaks. Foreign Secretary William Hague has criticised the website for publishing details of sensitive sites, including some in the UK, saying they could be targeted by terrorists. Mr Crowley said: "The (US) constitution enshrines the freedom of the press and we respect that, even if we have concerns about how that is exercised".
Gerard Batten, a UKIP MEP, said the Assange case highlighted the dangers of the European arrest warrant.
He said: "I don't know of the quality of the evidence in Mr Assange's case but it does seem that he is involved in political turmoil and intrigue and there are a lot of people keen to shut him up and there is nothing a court in the UK can do to look at the evidence before they extradite him."
Mr Assange is an Australian citizen and his supporters have written an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, asking her to protect him. Mr Pilger, who appeared in court to support Mr Assange, said Ms Gillard's threat to remove his passport smacked of "totalitarianism".
The UK is now all but powerless and is forced to arrest Mr Assange on these seemingly trumped up-political charges under the European Arrest Warrant which means you can be extradited without the will/evidence of the British courts - in other words, the US has obviously put pressue on Sweden and Interpol and with the handy invention of the EU's (EAW) we cannot do a single thing to stop this even though we can clearly see what he is doing is right.
Now i'm sorry for more comparisons to former regimes, but this is exactly the kind of kangeroo courtship the Soviet courts used back in the Soviet Union - to keep 'enemies of the states' quiet. The western world laughabley thinks its free - you can now be arrested for staging a protest outside the cenotaph; you can now be carted off to a foreign country without British courts looking at the evidence; Britain has more CCTV than China.. the list goes on and on.
Thoughts?
Wikileaks founder refused bail after being arrested under the notorious European Arrest Warant
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50326000/jpg/_50326234_assangesketch.jpg
Assange has been arrested in the UK under the European Arrest Warrant
Mr Assange denies sexually assaulting two women in Sweden. He was remanded in custody pending a hearing next week. A judge at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court refused bail because of the risk of the 39-year-old fleeing. A Wikileaks spokesman said the arrest was an attack on media freedom and pledged to continue publishing. Mr Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens said after the court appearance he would be applying again for bail. He also claimed the charges were "politically motivated" and he said the judge was keen to see the evidence against Mr Assange, an Australian citizen. Mr Stephens also said Wikileaks would continue to publish material and added: "We are on cable 301 and there are 250,000 secret cables."
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Assange's arrest was "a matter for the police" and there had been no ministerial involvement. Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said it would not stop the release of more secret files and told Reuters on Tuesday: "Wikileaks is operational. We are continuing on the same track as laid out before. "Any development with regards to Julian Assange will not change the plans we have with regards to the releases today and in the coming days."
Mr Assange has come in for criticism in the past week for the revelations made on Wikileaks. Foreign Secretary William Hague has criticised the website for publishing details of sensitive sites, including some in the UK, saying they could be targeted by terrorists. Mr Crowley said: "The (US) constitution enshrines the freedom of the press and we respect that, even if we have concerns about how that is exercised".
Gerard Batten, a UKIP MEP, said the Assange case highlighted the dangers of the European arrest warrant.
He said: "I don't know of the quality of the evidence in Mr Assange's case but it does seem that he is involved in political turmoil and intrigue and there are a lot of people keen to shut him up and there is nothing a court in the UK can do to look at the evidence before they extradite him."
Mr Assange is an Australian citizen and his supporters have written an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, asking her to protect him. Mr Pilger, who appeared in court to support Mr Assange, said Ms Gillard's threat to remove his passport smacked of "totalitarianism".
The UK is now all but powerless and is forced to arrest Mr Assange on these seemingly trumped up-political charges under the European Arrest Warrant which means you can be extradited without the will/evidence of the British courts - in other words, the US has obviously put pressue on Sweden and Interpol and with the handy invention of the EU's (EAW) we cannot do a single thing to stop this even though we can clearly see what he is doing is right.
Now i'm sorry for more comparisons to former regimes, but this is exactly the kind of kangeroo courtship the Soviet courts used back in the Soviet Union - to keep 'enemies of the states' quiet. The western world laughabley thinks its free - you can now be arrested for staging a protest outside the cenotaph; you can now be carted off to a foreign country without British courts looking at the evidence; Britain has more CCTV than China.. the list goes on and on.
Thoughts?