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3 Important new developments in cases involving the US government spying on Assange and his lawyers
There have been important updates in the cases involving the spying on Julian Assange and his lawyers.
- Spanish Court summons former US Secretary of State and CIA director Mike Pompeo to explain CIA plot to assassinate Julian Assange
'Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State under President Donald Trump, has been summoned by a Spanish court to explain an alleged US government plot to assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to ABC Spain.
The alleged plot was first revealed by Yahoo News in September, which reported that senior CIA and Trump administration officials made concrete plans to kidnap and assassinate Assange after being angered by Wikileaks’ publication of CIA documents describing CIA hacking tools.
Read the full article here: https://www.businessinsider.com/spain-pompeo-summoned-by-court-over-alleged-assange-assassination-plot-2022-6
2. UK admits violation of Article 8 & Article 10 (confidential journalistic material) of the European Convention of Human Rights.
In 2016, Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson took legal action against the UK Government with help from Privacy International over illegal surveillance & information sharing with the US Government for her work for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
She has now reached settlement with the UK government ‘over breach of her human rights after it admitted she was likely put under covert surveillance’. It follows BigBrotherWatch case that established GCHQ violations of Art 8 (includes legal privilege) through spying and information sharing arrangements with US Government.
Read the new Daily Mail article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10901023/Julian-Assanges-lawyer-reached-settlement-government-breach-human-rights.html
- In a separate case, El Pais reports that The British authorities have obstructing an investigation into US spying on Julian Assange’s defence.
Spain’s High Court has issued an order requesting UK assistance to depose British lawyers spied on at the embassy, some of whom are acting for Assange in the US extradition, but British authorities are obstructing the request for lawyers’ testimony.
Proving that the US secret services learned about Assange’s defence strategy by spying on his lawyers could annul the extradition request.
Read the new El Pais Article: https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-06-09/julian-assange-spying-case-judge-suggests-cia-may-have-received-illicitly-recorded-conversations.html