amy: still with us is vijay prashad.irectotor of trtricontinental institute for social research.h. is he there? what was he picked up? why was ola bini picked up and jailed in ecuador the same day julian assange was put in the belmarsh prison in london? is a difficult story for me. i have known ola bini for many years. it is still perplexing to myself and to the friends of ola of why he is in prison. we don't know why he is in prison. there is no charge against him. there has been some allegations made about his friendship to is an assange, but if that crime, you and i should be in jail as well. we have also met him. we have understood that meeting him is in itself not a criminal activity. ola bini is a programammer who spspent most of f hisife tryingo creaea tools to help humann rights activisists creatata shid against surveillanceyy govementnt. peoplele who are in n the tech d might know w the progrgrs. these e were developoped by y o. heoved to ecuador partly becaushehe felelwith the government o of rafael cororreat w