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struggle4progress

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Fri Jan 25, 2019, 09:44 PM Jan 2019

WikiLeaks sues to unseal any charges against Assange

by Associated Press, Updated: January 24, 2019

... The organization said in a statement it filed a petition Wednesday with an international human rights body seeking to force disclosure of any charges against Assange and help him fight possible extradition to the United States.

WikiLeaks also said U.S. prosecutors have approached people in the U.S., Germany and Iceland "and pressed them to testify against Mr. Assange in return for immunity from prosecution."

Assange has been holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London since August 2012 ...

http://www.philly.com/news/nation-world/wikileaks-sues-unseal-any-charges-against-founder-assange-20190124.html

If Saint Julian of Assange really helped "Hamberder" Don get elected, he could end up in the concrete foundation of a Moscow hotel project

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WikiLeaks sues to unseal any charges against Assange (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2019 OP
Just come on over and we'll show you for free, asshole jberryhill Jan 2019 #1
Apparently, they've also complained about Ecuador, for spying on poor Julian! Oops. Princess Turandot Jan 2019 #2

Princess Turandot

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2. Apparently, they've also complained about Ecuador, for spying on poor Julian! Oops.
Sat Jan 26, 2019, 12:03 AM
Jan 2019

One lesson to be learned, perhaps: before deciding to grandstand on behalf of an a-hole, make sure they're not a bigger grandstander than you are.

I'm surprised that the employees in the embassy haven't drop kicked him off of his wee Julian balcony by now. (They're on the ground floor, so he'd easily survive the 4 foot drop.)




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