Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Assange claim to be suffering "an Orwellian situation"

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has denounced a campaign by U.S. authorities, whom they accuse of trying to collect information on their Twitter followers about him and others involved in the publication of secret documents to launch a process proceedings against him, and considered that his arrest in a rural area of England is "an Orwellian situation." "I'm permanently secure" Assange complained in an interview broadcast in the early hours of today by France Info and although it has acknowledged being "used to this kind of pressure, the current situation is" perhaps the most dramatic "than ever lived.


Assange, located in parolee in the United Kingdom since 16 December, was speaking this morning before going to court in London for the last step before the start of the extraction process to Sweden, where courts accuse him of "sexual aggression". The court has confirmed that the hearing for his extradition will take place on 7 and 8 February.

In any case, Assange has said in previous interviews, has come to the courthouse by car and without statements, that "whatever happens", will follow. "The number of daily newspapers has increased in recent times and will continue to grow," he promised the Australian. Assange said they felt supported throughout the world because their "supporters and advocates continue to fight "for them.

"I'm not the only threat, all our team members are," he said, referring to the case of a young analyst in prison for 230 days in a Virginia jail awaiting a trial against him justice U.S.. The hearing, on 7 and 8 February Assange has appeared at 11.00 CET Spanish court in Woolwich. During the hearing, was expected to establish an exchange of evidence and witnesses to be called to testify between the parties ahead of the hearing on 7 and 8 February, which will decide his extradition to Sweden where you must declare two alleged sexual offenses.

"The session is to ensure that issues are identified the case and that the development is progressing at the right time," he had said previously about a court spokesman. Currently, only the judge has extended the dates held on 7 and 8 February to view. For its part, a member of Wikileaks expressed in this newspaper yesterday that they expect to relax the bail conditions in which they live these days Assange.

In a telephone conversation, his lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said: "The conditions of probation are very restrictive," says Joseba Elola. Assange takes an electronic monitoring bracelet and must occur every day between 14.00 and 17.00 at the station. "We are working hard so that there is no extradition," said his lawyer.

The hacker former Australian lawyers fear that if Assange UK delivery to Sweden, this ends up being extradited to the U.S.. Washington is considering accusing him of spying on Wikileaks-diffusion and in several international newspapers including the country-of hundreds of thousands of documents related to the Iraq war, the conflict in Afghanistan and the secret and confidential despatches U.S.

embassies in most of the world. For now their lawyers are considering applying for asylum in a third country, and among these possibilities would be at least Sweden and Australia. Assange, who angered the United States after the biggest leak of secret documents in history, has repeatedly defended his innocence.

One was at the gates of the High Court in London where, after spending nine days in prison was released to pay a deposit of around 283,000 euros. The scandal could prove costly to Wikileaks. Assange said yesterday in an interview after the release of the portal cables lose more than 480,000 euros a week since it closed one of its main sources of funding.

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