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[Rima Hassan @RimaHas]

🚨 Messages from Rima and other members of the Freedom Flotilla crew.

#FreedomFlotilla #FreeMadleen

[Phoenix Media Co-op @Phoenix_Coop]

At this point, the US might as well just add Israel as its next state and put its star among the others on the US flag.

The US props Israel up more than it does with its own states. The genocide in Gaza would have ended long ago without US participation.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: US warns countries not to attend the UN Conference for a Two State Solution. Countries that take 'anti-Israel' action will face diplomatic consequences from the US.

Source: Reuters

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Met Police putting Israeli apartheid tanks on our streets is just part of its complicity with war crimes

In total the Met has ordered 18 SandCats which the IDF have long tested on Palestinians

So yes, the Met Police is funding genocide, says @OsoSabioUK
https://t.co/gDFOp3vcjK

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

BREAKING: Kurdish-Turkish peace on the cards as PKK leader Öcalan unilaterally calls for end to conflict

There are a number of reasons for Turkey's sudden willingness to resume talks with Öcalan, writes @OsoSabioUK #Ocalan #Kurdistan Read the latest:
https://t.co/3Lr0oS0wzB

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

BBC propaganda on behalf of Israel laid bare in new report 🚨

The BBC told @declassifiedUK @markcurtis30 it has reported on Israel's genocide "impartially" - but the evidence in his report clearly shows otherwise. @OsoSabioUK looks at the detail:
https://t.co/Tx6NDAb6Nj

[Ed Sykes @OsoSabioUK]

Despite clear evidence of BBC pro-Israel bias, it still says it's “editorially independent” & gives “comprehensive analysis” on Gaza.

Maybe some BBC staff think they're independent & comprehensive. But if they truly were, they wouldn't be at the BBC: #BBC

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Your extraordinary donations of £313,657 got Julian Assange as far as Saipan. Can you help us cover the rest of his #FreedomFlight to Australia: £206,343 to get him home.

https://t.co/bBkYB5mycE

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Touchdown!

After enduring nearly 14 years of arbitrary detention in the UK, 5 years in maximum security prison, for his groundbreaking publishing work with @wikileaks, Julian Assange has arrived home on Australian soil.

Free at last. #FreedomFlight

[Freed Assange - #FreeAssange @FreeAssangeNews]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE!!

Watch here: https://t.co/7PlI9fnSMG

#AssangeFreed #JournalismIsNotACrime

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

"We should never underestimate the power of people to come together to make history. My gratitude is towards you. You can move mountains." - WikiLeaks editor-in-chief @khrafnsson

#AssangeFreed #JournalismIsNotACrime

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

.@Stella_Assange: “It took millions of people... people working behind the scenes, people protesting on the streets – for days and weeks and months and years, and we achieved it.”

“Julian wanted me to sincerely thank everyone, he wanted to be here. But you have to understand what he has been through. He needs time. He needs to recuperate, and this is a process. I ask you, please, to give us space, to give us privacy to find our place, to let our family be a family, before he can speak again at a time of his choosing.

I think it’s important to recognise that Julian’s release and the breakthrough in negotiations came at a time when there had been a breakthrough in the legal case, in the UK, in the extradition, where the High Court had allowed permission to appeal there was a court date set for the 9th and 10th of July.... in which Julian would be able to raise the First Amendment argument at the High Court. ... it is in this context that things finally started to move. I think it revealed how uncomfortable the United States government is, in fact, of having these arguments aired... the fact that this case is an attack on journalism, it’s an attack on the public’s right to know and it should never have been brought. Julian should never have spent a single day in prison. But today we celebrate because today Julian is free.”
https://t.co/2GdgciwvN6

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

Julian Assange UPDATE:

“One thing we were very clear about was that any resolution would have to end this matter and that Julian would be free, [and] that he was not going to do any additional time in prison, he was not going to do time under supervision, he was not going to do time under a gag order… that was one absolute requirement. Another significant point of negotiation was where the plea would be taken… we negotiated Saipan under conditions where he would be released in the UK. He would come to Saipan not as a prisoner of the United States or the United Kingdom, and that we would come in and leave on the same day. Which is exactly what happened” – Barry Pollack, Julian’s U.S. lawyer

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Stella Assange: "I hope journalists and editors and publishers everywhere realise the danger of the US case against Julian that criminalises, that has secured a conviction for, newsgathering and publishing information that was true, that the public deserved to know.

That precedent now can and will be used in the future against the rest of the press. So it is in the interest of all of the press to seek for this current state of affairs to change through reform of the Espionage Act.

Through increased press protections, and yes, eventually when the time comes - not today - a pardon."

#JournalismIsNotACrime

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

“it appears this case ends with me here in Saipan”

“With this pronouncement it appears you will be able to walk out of this courtroom a free man. I hope there will be some peace restored”

#AssangeFree #JournalismIsNotACrime

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

She also has to consider the case and seven year imprisonment of Chelsea Manning.

It appears your 62 months ... was fair and reasonable and proportionate to Ms Manning’s actual prison time.

She also acknowledges Assange’s “14-year ordeal”.

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

“There’s another significant fact – the government has indicated there is no personal victim here. That tells me the dissemination of this information did not result in any known physical injury.

“These two facts are very relevant. I would say if this was still unknown and closer to [2012] I would not be so inclined to accept this plea agreement before me.

“But it’s the year 2024”

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

“You stand before me to be sentenced in this criminal action,” Judge Manglona says. “I would note the following: Timing matters. If this case was brought before me some time near 2012, without the benefit of what I know now, that you served a period of imprisonment ... in apparently one of the harshest facilities in the United Kingdom.

[Media Lens @medialens]

The Guardian's history of denigrating Julian Assange, after they had exploited his work with @wikileaks, should never be forgotten.