Topic: The call for Julian Assange || The WikiLeaks Manifesto - We all should read it - page 2. (Read 2127 times)

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Hello, I'm Cedric Villani,

I am a French mathematician and a former Member of Parliament. I've just come out of Belmarsh prison and I'm still overwhelmed. The atmosphere, the administrative and physical barriers, the slow pace...

And also the emotion of having, for the first time in my life, been able to visit someone I care about in jail. I'm talking about Julian Assange, and I care a lot about him because he's a political prisoner. When I was young, there were famous political prisoners, like Nelson Mandela and I never imagined that one day I would go and visit one in this context of Western democracies (of which we are so proud..)

Julian Assange suffers a lot from being incarcerated: the hell of isolation, of being locked up 23 hours a day in this 3 square meters cell. Yet I still found him very intellectually agile, and we were able to discuss all sorts of things, even technical things related to maths and encryption. As well we discussed about political and scientific subjects... Julian is an intellectual, he also has a scientific background, he needs intellectual exchanges.

We also talked about his vision, because if he's jailed now, it's not because of all the wild accusations that are circulating against him, but because he has this vision of a world where some people stand up against the system's tendency to spy more and more, and to keep secrets for the benefit of the powerful ones.

Julian is committed to defend what is really precious for us: our freedom of speech and our privacy; and he is paying a high price for doing it today. If Julian is extradited, if he is convicted, it will be a terrible sign that the USA can convict a journalist or whistleblower anywhere in the world, simply for telling the truth.

We must all get involved to support him, just as he got involved to defend our rights.

Free Julian Assange.

with this letter (dated november , 16 democratic and republican members of congress call on president Joe Biden to withdraw the us extradition request against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange

'the guardian' reports that a total of 63 members of australia’s house of representatives and senate are fighting for JA's release and have written a letter. this letter will be handed over to the americans by a small delegation.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/14/julian-assange-more-than-60-australian-mps-urge-us-to-let-wikileaks-founder-walk-free

In a letter, the 63 MPs and senators said they stood in support of the trip to the US and were “resolutely of the view that the prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange must end”.

I am more than certain that this book is also a must read and I am going to order it next week.

In a separate ruling, the High Court judge also denied Assange permission to appeal and challenge the dismissal of other parts of his case during a ruling by district judge Vanessa Baraitser in January 2021. After revising eight proposed grounds of appeal the judge argued he did not consider the proposed appeals raised “any properly arguable case.”

There are no further appeal avenues at the domestic level. Assange could still fight the extradition at the European court of human rights, which last December confirmed that an application from Assange had been received.

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For example, I found Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and Underground available in ]German: Cypherpunks: Unsere Freiheit und die Zukunft des Internets and Underground: Die Geschichte der frühen Hacker-Elite. Tatsachenroman.
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The book is actually available in Italy and in Italian.

U.S. government has had a target on his head for years for disseminating the truth. They will make an example of him to send a warning to the rest.

i envy you this book as well as the others i looked at again on the last page of this thread
somewhere i read it (would then post the link later if interested) that the book is also available in italian and it would therefore perhaps also be interesting for fillippone
for me here would be a german/polish edition of interest...

Il processo a Julian Assange: Storia di una persecuzione

The Trial of Julian Assange: History of a Persecution

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You mean this book?
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today i stumbled across a new book on the internet by former un special rapporteur Nils Melzer on the Assange case.

I also recommend reading the following:
- Nils Melzer's The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution - The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future
- Robert Manne's piece of art The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange
- The Most Dangerous Man In The World: The Inside Story On Julian Assange And WikiLeaks, written by Andrew Fowler
- Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, by Julian Assange. The book is a discussion between Julian, Jacob Appelbaum (Tor developer) and Jérémie Zimmermann (co-founder of La Quadrature du Net)
- Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus & Julian Assange. It is a fascinating book about the rise of Australian hackers and phreakers from 1980s, including the early activity of Julian Assange which, by that time, was known under the nym Mendax
- When Google Met WikiLeaks, by Julian Assange
- The Unauthorised Autobiography, by Julian Assange.

Besides, the following movies are parts of the must watch category:

Ithaka - a documentary showing Julian's struggle to avoid extradition to US
Mediastan: A Wikileaks Road Movie - a WikiLeaks very own documentary - full movie
Risk - a WikiLeaks documentary, directed by Laura Poitras (a friend of Julian Assange) - full movie
The Fifth Estate - a great movie about WikiLeaks
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks - yet another documentary about WikiLeaks
Underground: The Julian Assange Story - another movie about Julian, depicting his early career.