"… I founded WikiLeaks… driven by a simple dream: to educate people about how the world works so that, through understanding, we might bring about something better.”NEVER FORGET
Never forget the nature, implications, far-reaching consequences of IMPUNITY. Unchecked lawlessness, Abuse of human rights across the board, abuse of power, depravity—accepting the unacceptable is complicity often in barbarism, always in regress.
One nation’s influencers and entities presuming to apply domestic law across national borders (even as it is not applied or applied capriciously within that nation), “extraterritorially,” outside recognized legal jurisdiction, against foreign nationals and nations are engaged in extremism, imperialism (itself a crime). Other nations’ leaders, law enforcement and judiciary agencies, complicit by their silence or kowtowing, aid in compounding lawlessness and impunity: over and over again, literally or figuratively getting away with murder.
Critical Early October Happening Begging Attention
Crossroads follows Crossed Rubicon
“I was formally convicted—by a foreign power—for asking for, receiving, and publishing truthful information about that power while I was in Europe. …
“Transnational repression cannot become the norm…. Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs.… Journalism is not a crime; it is a pillar of a free and informed society.… The criminalization of newsgathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere.” … “Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroad.…”
“Julian Assange at PACE hearing, ahead of a plenary debate on his case: ‘I pleaded guilty to journalism’” 01/10/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-at-pace-hearing-ahead-of-a-plenary-debate-on-his-case-i-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-
SEPTEMBER 2024
Motion for a resolution Doc. 15777 23/05/2023
Report Doc. 16040 13/09/2024
“The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights”
September 2024 “Committee expresses deep concern at harsh treatment of Julian Assange, warns of its chilling effect for the press” 12/09/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights “PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee has warmly welcomed the release of Julian Assange but expressed deep concern at ‘the disproportionately harsh treatment’ he faced, and called on the US to investigate the alleged war crimes and human rights violations disclosed by him and Wikileaks. Approving a draft resolution based on a report by Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), the committee said the failure of the competent US authorities to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of war crimes and human rights violations committed by US state agents, combined with the harsh treatment of Mr Assange and Ms Manning, ‘creates a perception that the United States government’s purpose in prosecuting Mr Assange was to hide the wrongdoing of state agents rather than to protect national security’.”
OCTOBER 2024
https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-at-pace-hearing-ahead-of-a-plenary-debate-on-his-case-i-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1841064879819555221
Doc. 16040 01/10/2024
Resolution Res. 2571 02/10/2024
“The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights”
Parliamentary Assembly, Session 2024 - Fourth part-session; Voting results: 88 in favor, 13 against, 20 abstentions https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33826#trace-4
https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33734
2020
Since emerging from “the dungeon of Belmarsh (Britain’s high-security prison) …, I see more impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth and more self-censorship. It is hard not to draw a line from the US government’s prosecution of me—their crossing the Rubicon [a limiting line once crossed commits for all time] by internationally criminalizing journalism—to the chilled climate for freedom of expression now.…
“I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period when expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened, and diminished.”
“[T]he freedom to speak and the freedom to publish the truth are not [should not be] privileges enjoyed by a few; but, rather, rights guaranteed to all.” To ensure these universal rights, “guaranteed to all,” institutions, great organizations and individuals — “conservatives, social democrats, liberals, leftists, greens, independents…,” the vast array of individuals who relentlessly supported and advocated tirelessly for his release — must keep watch, remain vigilant, and take appropriate action to ensure that “what has happened (to Assange) NEVER HAPPENS to anyone else.”
“Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few”
—Julian Assange—
“Julian Assange at PACE hearing, ahead of a plenary debate on his case: ‘I pleaded guilty to journalism’” 01/10/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-at-pace-hearing-ahead-of-a-plenary-debate-on-his-case-i-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-
SEPTEMBER 2024
Motion for a resolution Doc. 15777 23/05/2023
Report Doc. 16040 13/09/2024
“The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights”
September 2024 “Committee expresses deep concern at harsh treatment of Julian Assange, warns of its chilling effect for the press” 12/09/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights “PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee has warmly welcomed the release of Julian Assange but expressed deep concern at ‘the disproportionately harsh treatment’ he faced, and called on the US to investigate the alleged war crimes and human rights violations disclosed by him and Wikileaks. Approving a draft resolution based on a report by Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), the committee said the failure of the competent US authorities to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of war crimes and human rights violations committed by US state agents, combined with the harsh treatment of Mr Assange and Ms Manning, ‘creates a perception that the United States government’s purpose in prosecuting Mr Assange was to hide the wrongdoing of state agents rather than to protect national security’.”
OCTOBER 2024
Julian Assange “took part in a parliamentary hearing on his detention and conviction—and their chilling effect on human rights—ahead of a full plenary debate on this topic by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)” scheduled for Wednesday October 2, 2024. “The hearing was organized by the Assembly’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights in the framework of a report on this topic by Thorhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC).”01/10/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-at-pace-hearing-ahead-of-a-plenary-debate-on-his-case-i-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1841064879819555221
Doc. 16040 01/10/2024
Resolution Res. 2571 02/10/2024
“The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights”
Parliamentary Assembly, Session 2024 - Fourth part-session; Voting results: 88 in favor, 13 against, 20 abstentions https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33826#trace-4
https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33734
2020
Resolution 2317 (2020)
“Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe”
Author(s): Parliamentary Assembly
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/julian-assange-should-not-be-extradited-due-to-potential-impact-on-press-freedom-and-concerns-about-ill-treatment
https://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=28508
2022
LETTER “Commissioner calls on UK government not to extradite Julian Assange” STRASBOURG 18/05/2022 https://rm.coe.int/letter-to-priti-patel-secretary-of-state-for-the-home-department-of-th/1680a67bc0
Dunja Mijatović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) was Commissioner for Human Rights from 1st April 2018 to 31 March 2024. Before her appointment, she was Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010-2017); Director of Broadcasting at the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2010); Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies (2007-2010) and of the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Freedom of Expression and Information in Times of Crisis (2005-2007).
2024
News 2024 after Assange’s testimony “Parliamentary Assembly recognizes Julian Assange as a ‘political prisoner’ and warns against the chilling effect of his harsh treatment” Parliamentary Assembly Strasbourg 2 October 2024 https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/pace-recognises-julian-assange-as-a-political-prisoner-and-warns-against-the-chilling-effect-of-his-harsh-treatment
Ageless Value and Significance of Vigilance
PHILLIPS
“Only by (continuous) agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.” “[P]ower is ever stealing from the many for the few…. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
New England abolitionist, orator, crusader, pamphleteer, suffragist, lawyer Wendell Phillips 1811- 1884
SELASSIE
“The preservation of peace and the guarantee of (humankind’s) basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance…, eternal vigilance that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and un-remedied.”Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) who worked to modernize his country, brought Ethiopia into the League of Nations and the United Nations, made Addis Ababa the major centre for the Organization of African Unity— Haile Selassie I (also known as Ras Tafari, Tafari Makonnen) 1892-1975.
BUCK
“When good people … cease their vigilance and struggle—evil (people) prevail.”
North American author raised in eastern China, educated by her mother and a Chinese tutor, graduated from a women’s college in Lynchburg, Virginia—Pearl S. Buck (also known as John Sedges, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker) 1892 – 1973
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