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Re:Assange Hearing Day 2 by einpoklum on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:15AM (#22423623)
A prominent journalist has been locked up in Belmarsh prison in harsh condition for months. Even if there was some coverage now, it's still massively undercovered. That should have been on the news just about every day or two - as a form of news media self-defense if nothing else. Politicians answer other questions should also have been asked why Assange is in custody.

Not to mention the under-coverage during his years in effective imprisonment by the UK in the Ecuadorian embassy.

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 2 by JoeSmithson on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:39AM (#22423911)
> Politicians answer other questions should also have been asked why Assange is in custody.

He's in custody because he's a flight risk. Are there people out there genuinely disputing this?

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 2 by einpoklum on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:48AM (#22424016)
1. I meant, why is the government pursuing any legal action against him, not why he's in custody vs house arrest.

2. Even the claim that he is a flight risk is disputed. Assange has not ran away or hid anywhere - neither while in Sweden nor in the UK. He asked for political asylum, which is not the same as flight. Not to mention the fact that Assange is in a poor condition, physically and mentally, after years of detention and months of harsh solitary confinement, and if anything, should be transferred to a civilian medical facility for treatment and recuperation.

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 2 by JoeSmithson on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:52AM (#22424048)
The UK government are pursuing legal action against him because he is wanted in the US and the US government submitted an extradition request under the US-UK extradition treaty, and Assange is appealing it
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Re:Assange Hearing Day 2 by einpoklum on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:14PM (#22424966)
... and journalists should be asking why is the UK government helping the US in trying to put a publisher like Assange on trial, rather than repealing the extradition request.
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