supporters of julian assad have had a vigil in berlin while the wiki leaks founder continues to wait for his extradition hearing in a london prison they gathered next to the brandenburg gate in the german capital on wednesday night when he was holding placards demonic us songes willies and calling for freedom of the press similar rallies have also been held in cologne and does a lot of a scientist albert on stepped in and was also there alongside a german politician and he gave a speech to the crowd party's video agency rapley spoke to him before the start of the event. the united nations working group on opportunity tension concluded that julian was being out bitterly time by sweden you know ticking looking julian up in solitary confinement. in film. prison a maximum security prison is a continuation. under those circumstances. change males. you know the nation special room to torture has written that julian has suffered. all of the physical and mental. to predation of torture of course he's anxious and nervous but he continues to fight praise freedom unabated in his fight is on a p

we can go back to listen live to john shipped in the father of julian assad. years is quite a lot that can be done. i don't know the situation in germany and surely some must . and so can answer but in the u.k. and australia you know julian truly. absconding he's you can go from the hospital. in the jail to an open hospital down the road that's about the limit of his ability to scone. and he's known everywhere in. this. school and where would he go you know antarctica to be with the pain.

we'll let the process unfold and the you remember how hillary clinton apparently wanted to kill julian assad with a drone well let's not get lost in the details but let's go over some recent whistleblowers in u.s. history. some might argue that this case is different because this whistleblower didn't run to the press but simply followed standard procedure but the record seems to show that a lot of cases have whistleblowers who do follow this procedure so why jail time for some of them so it turns out the law does not actually protect them from retaliation they can be fired or prosecuted. so are all future whistleblowers doomed well not quite secure backers carefully protecting whistleblowers who see wrongdoing of any kind in our government is essential so if you're a whistleblower in america take a step back look over what you have an ask yourself get this information benefit anyone powerful in america if not your official complaint will probably be ignored and if you don't shut up after that the consequences could be severe the current whistleblowers case is very different from others. the

we'll let the process unfold and the you remember how hillary clinton apparently wanted to kill julian assad with a drone well let's not get lost in details but let's go over some recent whistleblowers in u.s. history. i never tortured anybody. but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers and people who were and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice i've never gained anything through what i've said publicly that i've lost everything. we had special ops forces the dead man can leak stuff this guy is a traitor a treasonous illegally shoot. mr snowden was a patriot he is a law breaker he violated american law he violated his duties that he assumed when he took the job that he had let's look at snowden here you know some might try to say that oh he's a great human rights crusader he is not at all like the great human rights crusaders in the past might argue that this case is different because this whistleblower didn't run to the press but simply followed standard procedure but the record seems to show that a lot of cases h

julian assad's was jailed him may for jumping bail back in 2012 and denied early release in september over fears that he would abscond is neil's melzer again saying the songes right to due process has been quote systematically violated. clearly showed just how true it is typical for victims of a logical torture because this receipt has been a salute to its control by women for more than 6 years. we could identify the causes for the symptoms a degree of certainty we could see is that there was this humility of stress levels that were added by the various systems the arbitrary just the procedures that are so much torture for someone spontaneously but after a couple of years when you were with every state authorities to treat you with extreme return missed by its. actions and you will lose trust in your environment. spain's prime minister pedro sanchez is in decathlon capital barcelona for talks with security chiefs and to visit injured police officers and so after a week of major protests in the region with angry pro independence activists demanding the release of jailed separatist lead

now imagine are times when we're going underground on the 3rd anniversary of wiki leaks is julian assad revealing to the world how the d.n.c. has chosen presidential candidate hillary clinton advocated plans in libya that would benefit is the missed terrorists targeting europe coming up on the show is british justice equivalent to collateral murder legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger claims what happened to the world's most famous political prisoner in a london courtroom in the past 48 hours is an atrocity and why is julie innocents being targeted by u.s. and u.k. government the germy called an allied politician fighting for a songe in parliament chris williamson m.p. plus with the u.k. general election looking inevitable we examine the voter i.d.'s boris johnson's latest attempt to subvert democracy all this more coming up in today's going underground a 1st rate to a decision made in london by u.k. thora g.'s in the past 48 hours to refuse any delay in extradition proceedings against the most famous publisher in the world julian assange of wiki leaks joining me is legendary

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