Bradley Manning, Julian Assange & Edward Snowden and wikileaks
This website supports an open internet. For that reason it publishes news by wikileaks too. And it publicly supports otherwise related persons to it: Private Bradley Manning, Julian Assange & Edward Snowden.
The openness of internet is threatened.
Several organisations, companies and states try to close down the critical parts of internet.
Keep the internet open, support wikileaks, and it's chief, Julian Assange,
Also try to avoid use of wikileaks opponents, of which some of them are listed below.
Private Bradley Manning, 2010
Private Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning was accused of leaking classified, sensitive material to wikiLeaks.
He was arrested June 2010.
Bradley Manning suffered for many months pause-less inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, USA: all without being convicted of anything.
Bradley Manning is entirely naked since March 2, 2011, according to a US Marine spokesman.
Rumours accuse the USA of mistreatment to enforce a confession to plea guilty.
Bradley Manning is detained in the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia.
A UN torture investigator says he is frustrated at being refused an unmonitored visit to the US Army private.
Juan Mendez said the US Government "has not been receptive to a confidential meeting" with Private Bradley Manning.
He said in a statement that a monitored conversation would be counter to the practice of his UN mandate.
Under a monitored conversation, anything said by Manning may be used against him in a military trial.
April 12, 2011.
Bradley Manning has been moved to a prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, at April 21, 2011.
The defence of Bradley Manning was in the process of filing a writ of habeas corpus seeking a court ruling that the Quantico Brig violated PFC Manning’s constitutional right to due process.
See United States ex. rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 74 S.Ct. 499 (1954) (violation of due process where result of board proceeding was predetermined); United States v. Anderson, 49 M.J. 575 (N.M. Ct. Crim. App. 1998) (illegal punishment where Marine Corps had an unwritten policy automatically placing certain detainees in max custody).
On April 21, protesters interrupted president Obama's San Francisco fund-raiser speech in order to demand a better treatment for Bradley Manning.
USA president Obama reacted with: He broke the law.
And how about the laws concerning the detention of Bradley Manning, Mr. president Obama?
December 16, 2011.
Pre-trial hearing, Article 32 courtroom, of Bradley Manning, during 7 days, in Fort Meade, Maryland.
March 12, 2012.
Bradley Manning Support Network.
The media reporting the trial, sent a letter of protest to top Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson, with the complaint that "the overwhelming majority of court records filed in Bradley Manning’s court-martial have remained shielded from public view."
The U.S. military's "unnecessary degree of secrecy" prevents journalists from decent reports of matters of considerable public interest.
Bradley Manning has had sole detainment for 11 months, says UN torture investigator Juan Mendez.
Contact with the world outside was virtually impossible.
This is done to a person not convicted yet.
This is a violation of article 16 of the UN-treaty against torture.
UN torture investigator Juan Mendez, says this treatment is done to force a confession of guilt.
UN torture investigator Juan Mendez reported this March 12, 2012.
April 24, 2012.
The Article 39 hearing has begun, in Fort Meade, Maryland.
The Defence received authorization to make its motions public.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Center for Constitutional Rights both believe that the lack of access to documents filed in this proceeding results in the public not being informed properly.
One of them is the motion to dismiss all charges with prejudice.
October 5, 2012.
Alexa O’Brien, one of a handful reporters reporting about Bradley, and wikiLeaks, is being threatened to be detained under de NDAA law. This concerns Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act.
The US government made this threat in Federal Court because of the articles she wrote on the US war on terror.
It means Alexa O’Brien could be detained without any charges for a indefinite period of time.
February 25, 2013.
Bradley Manning's 1000th day without any trial, but with imprisonment.
February 28, 2013.
Fort Meade, Maryland, Bradley reads his two hour statement, pleading guilty of nine lesser offences.
And one offence which could lead to two to ten years jail.
The remaining twelve offences he pleads not guilty.
Bradley states he wanted to get a video out in the public showing US soldiers gunning down wounded people.
He wanted to release documents not harmful to the United States, to start a debate on the war on terror.
June 3, 2013.
The trial has started, with formalities, at Fort Meade, Main Gate Reece Rd & US 175, Maryland, USA.
July 11, 2013.
According to the Ex-Guantanamo prosecutor, documents released by Bradley caused no harm.
The Pentagon released far more concerning national security.
July 18, 2013.
The judge says motions to dismiss the charges Aiding the Enemy and Computer Fraud are declined.
At this time.
July 30, 2013.
The verdict the judge just announced is that Bradley Manning is not guilty of Aiding the Enemy. He is guilty of nineteen other lesser charges.
August 15, 2013.
Bradley Manning apologises, during the sentencing phase of the trial: I am sorry that my actions hurt people. I’m sorry I hurt the United States.
August 21, 2013.
The judge convicted Bradley Manning to a sentence in jail for 35 years, and being fired by the army.
Prosecution wanted 60 years, last Monday.
The judge had already maximised the sentence before to 90 years.
First possible release could be after one third, or nine years, and some say after 4,4 years.
Bradley Manning, 2013
April 23, 2014.
The judge formally changed the name Bradley Edward Manning into: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.
Due to the fact he would like to become a women.
www.bradleymanning.org
Chelsea Manning to be, April 2014.
June 15, 2014.
Fort Leavenworth, KS facility, the place where Chelsea Manning serves her sentence.
Lawyers prepare for appeal.
The Espionage Act is abused to convict people who embarrass the U.S. government.
In stead of just convicting spies.
www.chelseamanning.org
August 12, 2014.
The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, intends to take legal action against the Defense Department, because it does not treat Chelsea Manning for Gender Dysphoria.
A gender change.
This has been diagnosed by military doctors one year ago.
August 29, 2013.
Chelsea is currently undergoing the usual indoctrination process at the Fort Leavenworth United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB).
This lasts about three weeks.
It is used to give a new inmate information about the USDB.
Chelsea Manning was allowed to have an outside contact during this period, which is an exception to the rule.
October 10, 2013.
War on whistle-blowers by Obama.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) states that Obama's administration aggressively prosecutes whistle-blowers.
Under Obama, the Espionage Act has been used to prosecute six government employees and two contractors accused of leaking classified information to the press, including Chelsea or Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden.
Earlier administrations prosecuted just three times.
January 22, 2014.
Chelsea Manning could have parole as soon as by 2020.
She has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
This because the trial lacks quite some correct use of legal procedures.
August 4, 2014.
Justice Department whistle-blower Jesselyn Radack condemned the Obama administration for sending Chelsea Manning to prison.
She is serving a 35-year sentence in prison.
In the mean time people who committed war crimes and torture by government order are out free.
September 23, 2014.
The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union and Chelsea Manning filed a lawsuit against the Army requesting Chelsea Manning's gender treatment, the previously diagnosed gender dysphoria.
February 20, 2015.
Chelsea Manning’s attorneys have filed a motion asking for the use of Chelsea’s legal and female name, Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.
She should also be addressed with female pronouns from now on, in all court documents.
Her hormone therapy has been approved recently.
May 5, 2015.
A statue of Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden has been unveiled in Berlin, Germany.
IT consists of four chairs, three with bronze life-size statues of Manning, Assange, and Snowden.
Titled: “Anything to Say?”
February 13, 2015.
Chelsea Manning receives first gender-related care by the military.
After fighting for it since August 2013.
March 5, 2015.
Manning finally will be addressed to as a female by the military, as ordered by the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
July 13, 2016.
Last week, July 5th, Chelsea committed an unsuccessful suicide.
September 21, 2015.
Chelsea denied right to follow recommended grooming standards.
Chelsea fights for medically appropriate gender-related care since her incarceration in 2013.
November 05, 2016.
Chelsea Manning attempted suicide twice in recent months.
December 5, 2016.
The American Civil Liberties Union and more than a dozen gay and transgender rights groups are urging President Obama to commute the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning.
This in order to give her a “real, meaningful life".
January 17, 2017.
President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence.
Chelsea will walk out of Fort Leavenworth a free woman in four months, on May 17th.
May 17, 2017.
Chelsea Manning will walk free today.
She has been in prison in the U.S. as whistle-blower longer than any one before her.
May 8, 2019.
Chelsea Manning is still imprisoned for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury about events related to her 2010 disclosures.
She has already testified at length about these matters, during her own trial.
Served 7 years in prison for it, of which 11 months in solitary confinement.
Obama commuted her sentence.
November 20, 2019.
Early grand juries acted independently, as investigations by citizens.
The tradition of using grand juries to jail political dissidents and activists is long.
After receiving a grand jury subpoena, people who refuse to talk about their first amendment beliefs and associations can be locked away, or fined, as sanctions for their principled refusal.
March 12, 2020.
Judge Anthony Trenga ordered her release from prison. because the second WikiLeaks grand jury had stopped the process of interviewing her.
Chelsea Manning, march 14, 2020.
March 12, 2020.
Chelsea Manning was released.
She is now resting and recovering from being held in jail for about a year because of resisting a grand jury subpoena.
https://couragetoresist.org/category/chelsea-manning/
Julian Assange, Dec. 2009
Julian Assange
December 7, 2010.
Julian Assange, citizen of and born in Australia, is wanted at the moment for questioning in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences.
He was arrested in London, UK, December 7, 2010.
Julian Assange is currently on bail and under house arrest in the UK.
The Australian government did not offer him a refusal to extradite Assange to the USA, if requested by the USA.
Prime Minister Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland described his actions as illegal.
December 10, 2010.
Australian lawyer Robert Stary, Melbourne, formally requested Attorney General McClelland to order an investigation to find out if Australian criminal charges could be laid against American journalists and politicians.
They called for Assange’s assassination.
Persons like Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Jeffrey Kuhner and Tom Flanagan.
November 2, 2011.
The high court appeal by Julian Assange against extradition to Sweden has, has been lost.
He should face rape allegations in Sweden.
February 1, 2012.
The extradition appeal in the UK has started.
March 17, 2012.
Julian Assange is said to run for the Australian senate next year.
Since he broke no Australian law, this seems possible.
May 30, 2012.
The extradition appeal in the UK has ended, for now.
The Supreme Court rejected the appeal and decided that Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden, but not before June 13.
June 12, 2012.
The Supreme Court received the request to the resurrect the appeal.
June 19, 2012.
Julian Assange entered the embassy of Ecuador in London.
He is said to have made and asylum request.
November 26, 2013.
The U.S. Justice Department made public it will not charge wikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents.
Government lawyers said they would have to prosecute U.S. news organizations and journalists too.
August 18, 2014.
Julian Assange will leave the embassy of Ecuador in London soon, due too health reasons.
Feb 04, 2016.
Julian Assange still remains in the embassy of Ecuador in London.
He became known after the publication of information leaked by Chelsey Manning.
This information included videos showing not needed killings by U.S. soldiers of unarmed inhabitants of Iraq.
May 17, 2017.
Swedish prosecutors investigating will hold a press conference this week about how to proceed with the rape accusation against Julian Assange.
May 19, 2017.
The extradition warrant from Sweden was revoked.
The prosecutor decided it would be disproportionate to proceed.
The investigation had already been found to be baseless by Stockholm’s senior prosecutor, Eva Finne.
She found that the conduct alleged by the police "disclosed no crime at all".
SMS messages from the alleged complainant made public in 2015 showed that she "did not want to accuse Assange of anything".
She felt "railroaded by police and others around her", and "police made up the charges".
April 11, 2019.
Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
The UK will decide whether to extradite Assange to the USA, in response to computer intrusion allegations.
May 1, 2019.
Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail.
May 2, 2019.
Julian Assange states: I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many people.
Article 4 of the U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty, signed in 2003, clearly states that “extradition shall not be granted if the offense for which extradition is requested is a political offense.”
May 13, 2019.
Sweden Reopens Investigation of Julian Assange for Rape.
May 31, 2019.
Julian Assange is showing all the symptoms associated with prolonged exposure to psychological torture, says Nils Melzer, UN’s special rapporteur on torture.
The former legal adviser to the Red Cross says: “In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law.”
June 11, 2019.
US submits formal Assange extradition request to extradite Julian Assange.
Prosecutors initially charged Assange with just computer intrusion, but added 17 new counts last month, including controversial charges under the Espionage Act.
Oct 21, 2019.
Julian Assange denied delay to extradition hearing by London judge.
Nov. 25, 2019.
The Swedish authorities announced on Tuesday that they would end an investigation into allegations of rape and sexual assault.
July 15, 2020.
Superseding indictment against Julian Assange made public.
Julian Assange and others at WikiLeaks recruited and agreed with hackers to commit computer intrusions.
The USA prosecutors found the holes in their argument which would cause them serious problems should they get Julian to trial in the United States.
In particular, they are wary of the strong freedom of speech protections in the U.S. constitution and so are desperate to portray Julian as a hacker, and not a journalist.
Julian Assange is supposed to have helped Bradley Manning log into systems. Which is already proven wrong.
Aug 14, 2020.
Julian Assange's lawyer today slammed a decision by the US government to lodge new charges against Julian Assange.
“astonishing and potentially abusive” the lawyer said.
The US government started assembling its case before December 2017.
It delivered an opening note in July 2019 and opened its full case in detail on 24 February this year.
August 18, 2020.
Legal adviser Greg Barns SC to Julian Assange says that “one of the most dangerous features of” the journalist’s “case is the idea that the US can seek to extradite any person, anywhere in the world, if they upset US interests”.
Substantive extradition hearings are scheduled to commence on 7 September 2020 in Westminster Magistrates Court.
Edward Snowden, June 2013
May 20, 2013.
Edward Snowden arrives in Hong Kong, at about this date.
June 21, 2013.
The U.S.A. accuses Edward Snowden of theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defense information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
June 23, 2013.
Hong Kong authorities made public that the extradition paperwork did not produce reason to keep Edward Snowden in Hong Kong.
Ecuador withdraws his offer to invite Edward Snowden for a safe stay.
After vice-president Joseph Biden made economic threats against Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa.
June 25, 2013.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated Edward Snowden was not in Russia, since he did not exit passport control.
June 30, 2013.
Edward Snowden request for for political asylum in Russia and 18 other countries.
July 6, 2013.
Venezuela’s grants asylum.
No safe trip possible, however.
John Kerry, US Secretary of State, threatens Venezuela with an oil boycott, prosecution of drug related politicians and deny access to NATO controlled airspace.
August 1, 2013.
Russia is granting Edward Snowden asylum, for 1 year.
Edward Snowden would observe Vladimir Putin’s condition of asylum to not harm US interests.
August 2014.
Russia grants Edward Snowden a three-year residency permit.
September 16 2016.
Oliver Stone’s new biopic about Edward Snowden.
A spokesperson for the Kremlin said one should see this film.
January 18, 2017.
Edward Snowden’s leave extended to 2020.
May 16, 2017.
Donald Trump repeatedly tweeted that Edward Snowden is a “traitor” during summer 2013.
Because he gave “serious information to China and Russia” and he “should be executed.”
Since Mr Obama took office in 2009, seven persons have been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917:
Edward Snowden, 2013
John Kiriakou, 2012
Jeffrey Sterling, 2010
Bradley Manning, 2010
Thomas Drake, 2010
Stephen Kim, 2010
Shamai Leibowitz, 2009
Prosecutions before 2009:
Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo were indicted both at the same time in 1971 for leaking the Pentagon Papers.
Formal charges have been dropped later.
Samuel Morison, a civilian working for the Navy, has been convicted in 1985.
Larry Franklin, working for the US Department of Defence, Steve Rosen, the director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, and Keith Weissman, working for AIPAC, were prosecuted at the same trial in 2001.
Below you will find the links to (mirror) links to wikileaks websites.
wikileaks.ch
wikileaks.org
wikileaks twitter
hostile towards wikileaks
This website supports wikileaks in its basics idea: being open about quite a lot of things.
But to a certain extend, I hope.
If you would like to know who are hostile towards wikileaks: here is the list, in chronological order:
Australia (for not offering him a refusal to extradite Assange to the USA, if requested by the USA)
Sweden (Julian Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences)
Amazon.com (Provider cancelled web hosting)
everydns.net (cancelled DNS services)
PayPal (cancelled internet donation payments)
France (French minister of industry calls wikileaks hosting unacceptable)
twitter.com (not trending wikileaks)
cda.nl (CDA party in parliament wants to have wikileaks Dutch mirror removed)
USA (for threats of several persons in high places to publicly state that the wikileaks founder should be shot)
swisspost.ch (cancelled bank account wikileaks founder)
ovh.net (French provider cancelled web hosting)
mastercard.com (blocks payments to the wikileaks funds)
visa.com (blocks payments to the wikileaks funds)
moneybookers.com (blocks payments to the wikileaks funds)
bankofamerica.com (blocks payments to the wikileaks funds)
telegraaf.nl (publishing an article that features Rop Gonggrijp as “Julian Assange’s adjudant” as well as ”a left-wing terror activist” with “close ties to the Chaos Computer Club who in turn had ties with RAF terrorists”.)
Pure bullshit.
http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=452
http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=442
The Netherlands (announcement of extradition of Rop Gonggrijp to USA without any problem)
