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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by BLKNSLVR on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:37AM (#22137536)
I'm wondering at what point the Australian Government might actually stand up in the defense of one of it's citizens against potential (and maybe even actual) human rights violations.

Australian politicians very much like to talk about 'protecting Australians' when it comes to ISP data retention and laws against encryption, but they tend to go entirely missing in the kind of situations where they are actually needed on behalf of a citizen that, in this case, needs potentially life-saving protection.

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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by austhrow743 on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:13AM (#22137829)
When Assange starts shitting coal.
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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by threeseed on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:17AM (#22137856)
They have provided consular assistance and lobbied for his return. That's all they can do.

And far worse things have happened to Australian citizens abroad than solitary detention.

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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by fit2rule on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:41AM (#22137571)
Not going to happen. They will bow to the needs of the USA, as Brazil has now done in its prosecution of Greenwald.

Wikileaks is sitting on a ton of info about the ADF's war crimes as well, and the Australian government want nothing more than to prevent the intense scrutiny of its proud fighting force by the worlds' people that would result from such a leak. They are fighting tooth and nail to ensure that Wikileaks is invalidated completely in the minds of the Australian public, who generally have very little temerity when it comes to criticism of their armed forces actions.

EDIT: Besides which, there is Australia's heinous Sedition law, which is being floated as the means by which Assange would be silenced were he to land back in Australias territory.

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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by threeseed on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:20AM (#22137881)
Australian Federal Police is already investigating war crimes committed by the Defence Force:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/afp-travels-to-afghan...

The media has had plenty of information about alleged war crimes so I doubt Wikileaks is going to offer anything new.

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Re:US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amen... by fit2rule on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:12AM (#22139484)
.. and as we can see from this token investigation, the media in Australia is also under attack for its own investigations of ADF war crimes, a situation for which Australia has been lambasted by international journalistic organisations - who are strangely silent on Assange's treatment.

So .. There is more to come.

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