WIKILEAKS und Fall Julian Assange

Am heutige Donnerstag dem 5. Juli 2012 hat Wikileaks angefangen die "Syrien Dateien" (Syria Files) zu veröffentlichen - mehr als zwei Millionen E-Mails von syrischen Politikern, Ministerien und assoziierten Firmen aus dem Zeitraum von August 2006 bis März 2012.

Diese außerordentlichen Datensammlung kommt aus 680 verschiedenen Entitäten bzw. Domain-Namen mit Bezug zu Syrien, inklusive der Ministerien für präsidiale Angelegenheiten, dem auswärtigen Amt, dem Finanzministerien, den Ministerien für Information, Transport und Kultur.

In den nächsten zwei Monaten werden Recherchen auf Basis dieser ungewöhnlichen Einblicke bei Wikileaks (global), Al Akhbar (Libanon), Al Masry Al Youm (Ägypten), ARD (Deutschland), Associated Press (Vereinigte Staaten), L’Espresso (Italien), Owni (Frankreich), Publico.es (Spanien) veröffentlicht. Andere Publikationen werden sich erst mit ihren Veröffentlichungen ankündigen.

Wikileaks-Gründer Julian sagte: "Die Materialien sind entblössend für Syrien, aber auch entblössend für Syriens Gegner. Es hilft uns nicht bloss die eine oder andere Gruppe zu kritisieren, sondern vor allem ihre Interesssen, Aktionen und Gedanken zu versehen. Es ist nur durch Verständniss möglich, sich einer Lösung des Konflikts zu nähern."

Warum nennst du dich ausgerechnet Gehirnwäsche?

Im juristischen Streit um den Gründer der Enthüllungsplattform Wikileaks, Julian Assange, kommt Bewegung. Nach Medienberichten hat ein forensisches Labor in Schweden auf einem der Kondome, das eine Vergewaltigungsanzeige stützen sollte, keine DNA-Spuren des Wikileaks-Gründers gefunden. Das Resultat wurde von einem weiteren Labor bestätigt. Diese neuen Nachrichten machen eine Anklage wegen Vergewaltigung gegen Assange in Schweden unwahrscheinlicher. Die Staatsanwaltschaft des Landes, die nach wie vor auf die Auslieferung des 41-jährigen besteht, will sich zu dem Ergebnis bislang nicht äußern.
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Die neuen Untersuchungsergebnisse aus Schweden könnten die Lage nun zugunsten des Wikileaks-Gründers verändern. Immerhin wird die Beschuldigung einer der Anzeigenstellerinnen, Anna A., infrage gestellt. Die inzwischen 33 Jahre alte Frau hatte bei der Anzeige angegeben, Assange habe das Kondom beim zunächst einvernehmlichen Geschlechtsverkehr vorsätzlich zerrissen. Nach schwedischem Recht kommt dies einer Vergewaltigung gleich. Der Negativbefunde des DNA-Tests stellt die Aussage der mutmaßlich Geschädigten nun massiv in Zweifel.

Colonia [Lobelie] schreibt: August 10, 2010 um 23:43 Uhr (REN):

http://ritaevaneeser.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/jorg-kachelmann-und-das-chaos-teil-sechzehn/comment-page-2/#comment-888

Assange labeled an ‘enemy’ of the US in secret Pentagon documents

Thu Oct 4, 2012 5:27PM GMT


By Dave Lindorff

What makes the designation by the Pentagon of Assange as an “enemy” in this context dangerous is that since 9-11-2001, the US government, with the general consent of the courts, has been treating “enemies” of the state in some very frightening extra-judicial ways. Enemies of the US these days can be summarily arrested and taken away to black-site prisons or to a place like Guantanamo without even a requirement that any notice be given to friends or relatives."

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The Age newspaper in Melbourne Australia is reporting that documents obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act from the Pentagon disclose that during an investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, a counter-intelligence unit, of a military cyber systems analyst based in Britain who had reportedly expressed support for Wikileaks and had attended a demonstration in support of Assange, referred to the analyst as having been “communicating with the enemy, D-104,” which is an article of the US Uniform Military Code which prohibits military personnel from “communicating, corresponding or holding intercourse with the enemy.”

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What makes the designation by the Pentagon of Assange as an “enemy” in this context dangerous is that since 9-11-2001, the US government, with the general consent of the courts, has been treating “enemies” of the state in some very frightening extra-judicial ways. Enemies of the US these days can be summarily arrested and taken away to black-site prisons or to a place like Guantanamo without even a requirement that any notice be given to friends or relatives. They can be locked up indefinitely and denied access to a lawyer. They can even be subjected to what is euphemistically called “intensive interrogation,” which most people and which international law call torture, as was done to Private Bradley Manning, charged with providing hundreds of thousands of pages of secret documents to Wikileaks.

Although the case against the military analyst in question was closed by the Air Force, with no charges brought, but with her security access lifted, Assange’s attorney in the US, CCR President Michael Ratner, says the labeling of Assange and Wikileaks as “enemies” remains a threat, should he ever be extradited or renditioned to the US. Ratner says as an “enemy” he could possibly be subject to military detention.

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This puts in a different light denials by the US, and by the Australian government, of reports that the US has obtained a secret sealed indictment of Assange, and that it is hoping he will be deported from Britain to Sweden, where he is wanted by prosecutors for questioning concerning two controversial complaints of sexual assault, so that he can be then more easily extradited to the US. A British court has already approved his extradition to Sweden, but as he was awaiting his last appeal, Assange jumped bail and fled to the Ecuadoran Embassy, which granted him asylum and said he is welcome to come to Ecuador. Britain has vowed to arrest him if he leaves the safety of the embassy, however, leaving him at least temporarily stranded there.

Many observers believe that the long captivity, including torture, and the delayed military prosecution of Pvt. Manning, all widely condemned including by the United Nations reporteur on human rights, is aimed at trying to coerce him into fingering Assange as having lured or bribed him into revealing secret military documents -- something Assange denies, and which Manning has refused to do.

Word that the US government, or at least the Pentagon, is considering Assange and his organization to be “enemies” of the US would appear to make his fear of extradition to Sweden, as well as the British authorities’ zeal to arrest him and hand him over to Swedish authorities, all the more justified. Sweden has an easier procedure for extraditing people to other jurisdictions for prosecution than does Britain, and currently has a right-wing government that is very supportive of US military and war policies.

Significantly, offers by Assange and by Ecuador to allow him to be questioned freely by Swedish prosecutors about two incidents of alleged unwanted sex asserted by two Swedish women have been declined by Swedish authorities, again raising suspicions that the extradition is all about getting Assange out of Britain and into Sweden. He has not been charged there with any sex offenses, and is only sought for questioning.

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