LA4Assange

Independent Los Angeles-based activist group fighting to protect the 1st Amendment and end unjust prosecution of Julian Assange. #AssangeFreed #PardonAssange

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

Julian Assange is Home.

[Gabriel Shipton @GabrielShipton]

@wikileaks @Niels_Ladefoged Sign the open letter to President Biden urging him to Pardon Julian Assange
https://t.co/nNiv1GjOJq

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

PRESS RELEASE:

Julian Assange to Address Council of Europe Following Confirmation of his Status as a Political Prisoner

On October 1, Julian Assange will arrive in Strasbourg to give evidence before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) which is scheduled to meet from 8.30am to 10am at the Palace of Europe.

This comes following the release of the PACE inquiry report into the Assange case, authored by Rapporteur Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir. The report focuses on the implications of his detention and its broader effects on human rights, in particular freedom of journalism. The report confirms that Assange qualifies as a political prisoner and calls on the UK conduct an independent review into whether he was exposed to inhuman or degrading treatment.

Sunna Ævarsdóttir serves as the General Rapporteur for Political Prisoners and is the Chair of the Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights within PACE's Legal Affairs Committee. She emphasises how Assange's case is a high profile example of transnational repression. The report discusses how governments employ both legal and extralegal measures to suppress dissent across borders, which poses significant threats to press freedom and human rights.

Julian Assange is still in recovery following his release from prison in June 2024. He is attending this session in person due to the exceptional nature of the invitation and to embrace the support received from PACE and its delegates over the past years. PACE has a mandate to safeguard human rights and has repeatedly called for Julian Assange’s release when he was in prison.

He will give testimony before the committee, which will also hear the findings that his imprisonment was politically motivated.

The hearing marks Assange's first official testimony on his case since before his imprisonment in 2019. His appearance before Europe's foremost human rights and treaty-setting body emphasises the broader implications of his case.

https://t.co/5kIhX5vHHJ

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

"The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security." - Julian Assange.

[Michelle #FreePalestinianPrisoners! #PardonAssange @Michell45064244]

Julian Assange - "Justice doesn't just happen, justice is forced by people coming together and exercising strength, unity and intelligence"
#PardonAssange

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

Free, free, Julian Assange! Free, free, Julian Assange!

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

@CreakingG @StatonKymJ Over $500k to repay the plane the Australian govt leant him

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

No, we will never forget.

[Chris Todd Nolan @ChrisToddNolan]

Full 2 hour audio recording of Julian's plea and sentencing
https://t.co/sRjqB5U02i

[Chris Todd Nolan @ChrisToddNolan]

Full 2 hour audio recording of Julian's plea and sentencing
https://t.co/sRjqB5U02i

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

@SarcasmStardust No doubt we will. We were patient for 14 years- we can wait some more. ;-)

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

@Paul56255400 @AssangeCampaign It never will be. He is our guiding light.

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

For years, Julian's communications were censored. Now, our words can reach him directly. Will you join me in saying thank you and welcome home? https://t.co/e1nOS0fKbm

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Excellent work: "Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, promised to close press agency Télam and sack its 700 employees. But media workers fought back — and saved the agency from being shuttered."

https://t.co/e1eHUp3gPn

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

“...[Assange] should be pardoned. The fact that he was forced to endure year after year of detention and legal limbo, and ultimately forced to admit guilt for something journalists do every day, is an affront to the First Amendment.” #PardonAssange

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

#PardonAssange

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

Free!

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

Freedom: a man’s best birthday gift.

HAPPY 53rd Year of Life, from Los Angeles, CA

[Australians For Assange 🗣 @Aus4Assange]

TVs around the world watched as Julian Assange stepped onto Australian soil & kissed his wife Stella for the first time as a free man. They conceived two children in confines of asylum in an embassy & married in maximum security prison. Love saw them through a decade of darkness.

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

The #freeassange chapter is closed. LA activists headed to the beach in honor of Assange and to celebrate his long overdue freedom. #PardonAssange now begins because this isn’t only about one innocent man’s freedom but about the fate of the Free Press
#weareallassange

[LA4Assange @LA4Assange]

@Germany4Assange #PardonAssange

[Freed Assange - #FreeAssange @FreeAssangeNews]

"Julian, you don't know what hope and what joy you've brought to so many people by your courage, your information, and your steadfastness in determining that we all know the truth" - @jeremycorbyn delivers a very special message of appreciation to @wikileaks founder #JulianAssange after his release from Belmarsh prison

#AssangeIsFree