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22 Jan 2021

Extradition would be denied because Julian was weak, not because he was right. We should have been happier, given we have worked and waited for Julian’s freedom for ten years, but having worked on this campaign for ten years, we couldn’t quite believe it was over. And it’s not.

Response to issues raised in ‘Sub-Imperial State, Australian Dirty Work’

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Richard Tanter

21 Jan 2021

Richard Tanter responds to Clinton Fernandes' review of Brian Toohey's book Secret: The Making of Australia's Security State

A reply to Richard Tanter

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Brian Toohey

21 Jan 2021

Brian Toohey replies to Richard Tanter's response to a review of his book.

Weaponising Human Rights: Can the Magnitsky Act deny due process?

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Lucy Komisar

29 Oct 2020

The Australian parliament seems about to approve a ‘human rights’ law that would establish the ability to exert arbitrary state power over individuals in other countries who have been accused of human rights violations.

Kafka on Steroids: Summarising the Extradition Hearing of Julian Assange

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Felicity Ruby

8 Oct 2020

Embarrassing the powerful is the harm for which the publisher is on trial, while those who have committed the crimes revealed are free to strike again, to profit again and to continue killing in cold blood.

Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

2 Oct 2020

I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a perversion of due process. This is due revenge.

Kafka on Acid: The Trial of Julian Assange

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Felicity Ruby

17 Sep 2020

After waiting handcuffed in the holding cells, he is placed in a glass box at the back of the courtroom. Then he is forced back into the Serco van to be strip-searched back at Belmarsh to face another night alone in his cell.

Sub-Imperial State: Australian Dirty Work

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Clinton Fernandes

Jul 2020

The instruments of statecraft, as exposed by Brian Toohey and Bernard Collaery, are wielded in the interests of those with real power: elite elements in the private sector and the US national-security state, which defends a global order protective of its interests.