That is an appeal court and would follow appeals to the British High Court and Supreme Court should Assange lose. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser denied extradition on health grounds, saying Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. It has now been moved back to the Old Bailey, the central criminal court of England and Wales. Declassified found that its current president is. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said on Monday at London's Old Bailey court that Assange's clinical depression could be compounded and he could commit suicide if extradited stateside. The Biden Justice Department on Friday formally appealed a British judge's rejection of the U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange, confirming the new administration's intention to run with its predecessor's espionage charges against the WikiLeaks publisher despite warnings that the case endangers press freedoms around the world. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". The Foreign Office has long taken a strong anti-Assange position, rejecting UN findings in his favour, refusing to recognise the political asylum given to him by Ecuador, and even labelling Assange a miserable little worm. changed again to a house which is divided into three flats in Battersea, south London. A British barrister, who wished to remain anonymous, but who is not involved with the Assange case, toldDeclassified: The resistance to disclosure here is curious. What we do not see are the events in 2021, where the U.S. government overturned the ruling and Julian was denied an appeal before the U.K. Supreme Court in . You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. A 'pure' political offence was defined as treason, espionage or sedition. "When he spoke truth and when his barrister spoke, Baraitser contrived boredom; when the prosecuting barrister spoke, she was attentive. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition". The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. "The love we have for each other carries us through," she said. Supporting a victim of BWS, battered wife syndrome, also called domestic abuse, spousal abuse. The purpose of the cookie is to collect statistical information in an anonymous form about the visitors of the website. It registers the log-in information. Yesterday he replied at some length he could not hear properly in his glass box and could not communicate with his lawyers (at some point yesterday they had started preventing him passing notes to his counsel, which I learn was the background to the aggressive prevention of his shaking Baltasar Garzn's hand goodbye). In a Jan. 4 ruling, the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, said, "I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America.". The Treaty was the very basis of the request. is independent but works closely with the Foreign Office. Since the last ruling, overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that the United States prosecution against my husband is a criminal abuse. And if no photo was taken, how do they prove you were attempting to take one, as opposed to texting your mum? This cookie is used for the implementation of the news content from other sites. The overriding accusation that Assange was seeking to harm the political and military interests of the United States was in the very definition of a political offence in all the authorities. It is likely that Chief Magistrate Lady Emma Arbuthnot was involved in the decision to appoint Baraitser to the case. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who gave Assange a court victory earlier this week by rejecting the U.S. extradition request ruled that Assange must be held in custody while the U.S.. One of the three residential properties which have been recorded by MPs in the parliamentary register of interests as the location of the Tertulias organisation, which funded Lady Arbuthnots trip to Bilbao. This cookie is set by .bidswitch.net. Declassified UK. 2. to formally recuse herself from the Assange case. Her quote in the 31st paragraph makes me wonder when she dismissed Assanges fear of U.K. extradition (returned to the United States). Judge Vanessa Baraitser delivered the judgement at the central criminal court in London. They tweet at @DCKennard and @markcurtis30. The learned lady can reject the extradition, or keep looking over her shoulder for the rest of her miserable life. We need to know that to properly assess Baraitser. This is a Lijit Advertising Platform cookie. Baraitser has also ruled that Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is to remain in prison when his jail term ends because of his "history of absconding". "[5][6][7][8][9] Baraitser said "I am satisfied that there is no or insufficient evidence that the French authorities have manipulated or used procedures to oppress or unfairly prejudice Mr Djouhri." Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. Indeed, exiled off mainstreet, she is as are the Tories and the New Labour lot all enemies of the rule of law. She also joined a group of Conservative MPs on a trip to Berlin in 2011 and attended in 2019 the annual forum of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a highly secretive meeting organised by the most influential neoconservative think tank in Washington populated by senior US military and intelligence officials. had been managed by the same person living at the addresses given by parliamentarians. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. Which is no crime on her part, but I suspect the expunging is not achieved without considerable effort. Follow Declassified onTwitter,FacebookandYouTube. I aways believed that UK stood for United Kingdom. Responding to Declassifieds Freedom of Information request for communications between the minister and. UK MSM is corrupt; This cookie is used for measuring the efficiency of advertisement by registering data on visitors from multiple website. The cookie is set by crwdcntrl.net. Blessings on you and all the other good folks out there. His predecessor Sir Alan Duncan, Duncan, who has now left office, personally. Prisoners, even the most dangerous of terrorists, gave evidence from the witness box in the body of the court nest to the lawyers and magistrate. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. He cited examples of judgements made by the House of Lords and Privy Council where treaty rights were deemed enforceable despite the lack of incorporation into domestic legislation, particularly in order to stop people being extradited to potential execution from British colonies. The chief magistrate has aleadership responsibilityfor the roughly 300 district and deputy judges across England and Wales. ", "Did this happen in the home of Magna Carta? It was once a proud country until the U.S. started buying it up in the 60s. Arbuthnot hears many of the most sensitive or complex cases in the magistrates courts and in particular extradition and special jurisdiction cases. All the addresses are residential with no clear reason why they would be official addresses of high-level Foreign Office-linked fora. If Patel is hit by a bus or a political force her party cannot withstand then she will NOT sign off on the extradition. The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. After Patel was sacked, self-described passionate Zionist Johnson accelerated his own campaign of pro-Israel advocacy in the Foreign Office in 2018. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. He looked at her like a kindly uncle whose favourite niece has just started drinking tequila from the bottle at a family party. A crowd of reporters gathered outside as a small group of supporters chanted "Free Julian Assange." are secretive gatherings about which little is known and are not obviously connected but Declassified has discovered that the UK address of the two organisations has been the same. UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser on Monday blocked the US . The information was then published on the Wikileaks website. ;-). by Lord Arbuthnot as bringing MPs, business people, academics and artists together to discuss topical issues is not clear. The Arbuthnots rabid hatred towards Assange is not difficult to explain since Assange has exposed war crimes committed by the US/UK troops during the Wars for Israel. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. Standing to her right is Tertulias chairman, Lord Arbuthnot. or an itinerary for the Bilbao meeting, DEFRA responded: Following a search of our paper and electronic records, we have established that the informationyou have requested is not held by DEFRA. It is unclear if Truss used a private email to organise the visit. Tags: Belmarsh Prison Declassified UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser Julian Assange Lady Emma Arbuthnot Mark Curtis andMatt Kennard. Last October, Europe minister Christopher Pincher attended the forum in Edinburgh and, dialogue illustrates the breadth and depth of the relationship between the United Kingdom and Spain. James Arbuthnot is the chairman of the advisory board of the UK division of multinational defence and security systems manufacturer Thales. Although she is no longer personally hearing the Assange extradition proceedings, she remains responsible for supporting and guiding the junior judges in her jurisdiction. Kathryn Howarth succeeds in obtaining the discharge of a Romanian EAW before District Judge Baraitser. But, in January 2020,Declassifiedhad requested the same information for the period when Sajid Javid was home secretary, April 2018 July 2019. Lord and Lady Arbuthnot spent two days at the event and received expenses worth 1,488.20 from Tertulias. The scale of obvious bribery to Arbuthnot, Baraitser, all officers in UK that did lap dog duty outside Embassy I can hardly fathom. The chief magistrate, however, is aware of the judicial conduct guidance that advises on avoiding the perception of bias and is not hearing the case. Foreign Office partner organisation Tertulias also paid for Lady Arbuthnot Julian Assanges senior judge to attend this event. The main business activity of this cookie is targeting and advertising. The cookie stores a unique ID to identify a returning user for the purpose of targeted advertising. , chaired by Lady Arbuthnots husband Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, a former Conservative defence minister with. To accept the government's arguments, she will have to disregard weeks of expert testimony debunking the prosecution's legal theories, and she'll have to accept its misleading timeline of events. The extradition request and its surrounding circumstances constitute an abuse of process. Here, the state broadcaster, the BBC, blacked it out, as did the other mainstream channels. [2] Juan Passarelli tweeted: On 28 October 2019, John Pilger described the disturbing scene inside a London courtroom the previous week when the WikiLeaks publisher, Julian Assange, appeared at the start of a landmark extradition case that will define the future of free journalism: "The worst moment was one of a number of 'worst' moments. Well, its perfectly clear , what with the United States love of killingthat UK now stands for UNHINGED KILLERS. Vanessa Baraitser serves as a District Judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court where, on 21 October 2019, she refused to extend Julian Assange 's UK extradition proceedings, telling Assange his full extradition case would begin on 24 February 2020. WINNER OF THE 2017 MARTHA GELLHORN PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM. They tweet at @DCKennard and @markcurtis30. Trusss visit to Tertulias is secret enough for even the department she oversaw as minister at the time DEFRA to have no information on it. The U.S. government plans to appeal the decision within the next two weeks. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. The judge said Assange would likely be. He is wanted over the publication of thousands of classified documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. 4 January 2021: Westminster Magistrates Court discharges (throws out) the US extradition request against Julian Assange. Mr Assange, 50, married Stella Moris on Wednesday in Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since 2019. I accept that Mr Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition proceedings but I do not find that Mr Assanges fears were reasonable, she said. Me too, Skip, me too. The mass incarceration system in the United States is cruel and inhumane, and as a result, the U.S. government had their extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied by a British district judge.