The Assange case is tantamount to the UK and US rule of law killing itself in a thousand tiny cuts. The only known photograph of district judge Vanessa Baraitser who will rule on Julian Assanges extradition to the U.K. in the public domain. Did this happen in the home of the Magna Carta? 4 January 2021: Westminster Magistrates Court discharges (throws out) the US extradition request against Julian Assange. I aways believed that UK stood for United Kingdom. [bauaw] Bay Area United Against War Newsletter, March 2, 2023. "Her knee in the groin was to announce that the next court hearing would be at remote Woolwich, which adjoins Belmarsh Prison and has few seats for the public. Can Nigeria's election result be overturned? By clicking Accept All, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. The sparse information available on the meeting, which largely comes from social media, suggests that Lady Arbuthnot may not have attended the discussions since there was a separate spouses/partners, Declassified has discovered that the addresses given by Lord Arbuthnot and other parliamentarians for. The U.S. government plans to appeal the decision within the next two weeks. Lord Arbuthnot records that he became the unpaid chair of Tertulias in 2012, at which time he was also chair of parliaments Defence Committee. Although having attended the annual event regularly since 2000, this was the first time Lord Arbuthnot recorded in his parliamentary register of interests the attendance of his wife. Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser had just made a ruling that the names of Julian Assange's partner and young children could be published, which she stated was in the interests of "open justice." ", "The judge#VanessaBaraitser cycles home after court! Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. This cookie is set by the Bidswitch. She added "In my view I have substantial ground for believing if I release you, you will abscond again".[13][14][15]. This cookie is set by Addthis. Anonymisation by Declassified. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The Foreign Office has long taken a strong anti-Assange position, rejecting UN findings in his favour, refusing to recognise the political asylum given to him by Ecuador, and even labelling Assange a miserable little worm. This district judge has a record of nodding through extradition cases, including several that have recently been overturned on appeal by a higher court. This cookie tracks the advertisement report which helps us to improve the marketing activity. Ms Gebhardt had since moved to Germany and is now sole carer for her 8-year-old daughter. that the Arbuthnots son is linked to an anti-data leak company created by the UK intelligence establishment and staffed by officials recruited from US intelligence agencies behind that countrys prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder. In a Jan. 4 ruling, the judge, Vanessa Baraitser, said, "I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America.". The High Court rejects the United States Governments arguments that the district judge erred in her findings. ;-) ). UK government is corrupt; This argument has been made to the court in written form to which I do not have access. The Treaty was the very basis of the request. Lady Arbuthnot personally presided over Assanges case as judge from late 2017 until mid-2019, delivering two controversial rulings. She had nothing to do; it was demonstrably preordained. According to a statement given toPrivate Eye, she stepped asidebecauseof a perception of bias, but it was not elucidated what this related to. But from discussion in court it was plain that the prosecution argue that the Extradition Act of 2003, under which the court is operating, makes no exception for political offences. Matt Kennard is head of investigations, and Mark Curtis is editor, at Declassified UK. The extradition judge, Vanessa Baraitser, will take only written arguments on November 16. Vanessa Baraitser is a British district judge. Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, 1 March 2019. It. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who gave Assange a court victory earlier this week by rejecting the U.S. extradition request ruled that Assange must be held in custody while the U.S.. Baraitser wasappointeda district judge in October 2011 based at the Chief Magistrates Office in London, after being admitted as a solicitor in 1994. The cookie is set by Segment.io and is used to analyze how you use the website. Britains former ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley. "Fitzgerald pointed out that while the Extradition Act of 2003 did not contain a bar on extraditions for political offences, it did not state there could not be such a bar in extradition treaties. Yesterday he replied at some length he could not hear properly in his glass box and could not communicate with his lawyers (at some point yesterday they had started preventing him passing notes to his counsel, which I learn was the background to the aggressive prevention of his shaking Baltasar Garzn's hand goodbye). Whats the rate of other judges? is independent but works closely with the Foreign Office. When asked about the organisations funders or any personnel involved, including its current parliamentary chair, information was refused. She then peered at both barristers in the hope this would have sat them down, but both were still on their feet. Lord Arbuthnot can be seen standing next to her, likely having just introduced his fellow Conservative MP. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. The mass incarceration system in the United States is cruel and inhumane, and as a result, the U.S. government had their extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied by a British district judge. Apparently not, as anyone can see that Julian Assange has had his rights taken away and the curious legal system would prefer to have him offd by the United States. Here, the state broadcaster, the BBC, blacked it out, as did the other mainstream channels. All of the information is exempt from disclosure under section 32 of the FOIA because it is held in a court record., It added that: Section 32 is an absolute exemption and there is no duty to consider the public interest in disclosure.. A request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was sent by, A British barrister, who wished to remain anonymous, but who is not involved with the Assange case, told. And if no photo was taken, how do they prove you were attempting to take one, as opposed to texting your mum? PS: why the Arbuthnots are so exceptionally ugly? Used by sites written in JSP. This cookie is used to collect statistical data related to the user website visit such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would . 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It is unclear what perception of bias Lady Arbuthnot accepts and on what basis she stepped aside from personally hearing the case. From 2013-16, the address changed to a house in Higham, a small village with 140 people, also in Suffolk. Baraitser is a District Judge in Magistrates' Court. Jan 4, 2021 (RT) Jubilant scenes have greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser's decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London's Old Bailey courthouse. If convicted on all charges, Assange would have faced a maximum of 175 years in prison, according to The New York Times. Lady and Lord Arbuthnot attend the Queens garden party at Buckingham Palace in May 2017. Julian was a gentle, intellectual man and not a terrorist. ", "Assange case judge Vanessa Baraitser has been discovered singing in this old high school musical", "Your Man in the Public Gallery The Assange Hearing Day 3", https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Vanessa_Baraitser&oldid=185729, Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows, If the authorities now refuse to allow him out on bail during the, Nobody cultivates her own anonymity more than Magistrate, I think there is a corner of the mind of this. A request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was sent byDeclassifiedto the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) on February 28, 2020 requesting a list of all the cases on which Baraitser has ruled since she was appointed in 2011. I hope I live long enough to see these evil people get their comeuppance. There are many great benefits to being a Maverick Insider. They tweet at @DCKennard and @markcurtis30. Trusss visit to Tertulias is secret enough for even the department she oversaw as minister at the time DEFRA to have no information on it. This cookie is used for advertising purposes. Liz Truss, Lady Arbuthnot, Lord Arbuthnot, and the Foreign Office, did not respond to requests for comment. If we had a REAL main stream press all of this would have been exposed to the public long ago, and Julian would be a free man. A BELIEF that a (FOIA) request would exceed an amount is sufficient to deny a request is a Fuccillo (HUGE) size loophole to deny revealing and biased nature of a corrupt system. This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. The 2014 event in Bilbao was, by David Lidington, the Minister for Europe, while the Foreign Office has in the past. Duncan, who has now left office, personally insulted Julian Assange in parliament in 2018 before adding: It is of great regret that Julian Assange remains in the Ecuador embassy, where he had been given political asylum by the Ecuadorian government. She then denied Julian's lawyers any more time to prepare their case - even though their client was prevented in prison from receiving legal documents and other tools with which to defend himself. Mr Assange's case will now go back to District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, the original judge who. Assanges lawyers had applied to have his British arrest warrant withdrawn. Mr Assange, 50, married Stella Moris on Wednesday in Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since 2019. A 'relative' political offence was an act which was normally criminal, like assault or vandalism, conducted with a political motive. It has been reported that the estate is owned by Sheikh Mohammed al-Makhtoum, the ruler of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. UK MSM is corrupt; The Foreign Office has long taken a strong anti-Assange position, the political asylum given to him by Ecuador, and even, financially from another trip with her husband in 2014, this time to Istanbul for the British-Turkish. This cookie also helps to understand which sale has been generated by as a result of the advertisement served by third party. Someone on Twitter directed me to this draft Wikipedi a page, which was written concerning Baraitser back in October 2019 and rejected as a full article to be published on their page. "Once there were spaces, gaps, boltholes, in mainstream journalism in which mavericks, who are the best journalists, could work. Her previous rulings on Assange cannot be revisited by the defence when she fails to declare a conflict of interest. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition". (Photo: Instagram). It allows the online transaction without storing the credit card information.This service is provided by Stripe.com. His predecessor Sir Alan Duncan, Duncan, who has now left office, personally. Tertulias, an annual forum held for political and corporate leaders in the UK and Spain, is regarded by the UK Foreign Office as one of its partnerships. Miralis can only assume that the New South Wales . was openly set up by the UK government, but, is also closely linked to the Foreign Office, which. That is an appeal court and would follow appeals to the British High Court and Supreme Court should Assange lose. In a Monday decision published online, judge Vanessa Baraitser said that while she has "no reason to doubt" that he would receive a fair trial, "it would be oppressive to extradite him" to the U.S . It was a question of health and safety. 2. An internal review into the rejection ofDeclassifiedsfreedom of information (FOI) request upheld the rejection. The reason for her attending a meeting. for supporting and guiding the junior judges in her jurisdiction. In 2017, the address for Tertulias changed again to a house which is divided into three flats in Battersea, south London. I give little weight to the views of the Working Group, she added, referring to the United Nations body which termed Assanges condition one of arbitrary detention. The US government says the sentence is likely to be between four and six years. This cookie is set by Google. Theres surely something you could help with, right? The cookie sets a unique anonymous ID for a website visitor. She also joined a group of Conservative MPs on a trip to Berlin in 2011 and attended in 2019 the annual forum of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a highly secretive meeting organised by the most influential neoconservative think tank in Washington populated by senior US military and intelligence officials. This cookie is native to PHP applications. Vanessa Baraitser is a British district judge. I mean Baraitser, not Arbuthnot. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. The. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. Lord Arbuthnot described the purpose of the visit as to promote and further bilateral relations between Britain and Turkey at a high level. It is not known if Lady Arbuthnot was present. We need to know that to properly assess Baraitser. "Baraitser concluded the matter by stating that the Defence should submit written arguments by 10am tomorrow on this point, and she would then hold a separate hearing into the question of Julians position in the court. The war profiteers (and judge Emmas pet Baraitser) can not wait to see Assange dead, and they have no sympathy for Ms. Morris and her two small children fathered by Assange. Justice has to be seen to be done.. Despite the rejection by the MOJ,Declassified has found 24 extradition cases that Baraitser ruled on from November 2015 to May 2019, discovered using the media archive Factiva and Westlaw. Declassified UK has discovered that Julian Assanges judge, Vanessa Baraitser, has ordered extradition in 96 percent of the cases she has presided over for which information is publicly available. 10:30 am EDT: Judge Vanessa Baraitser has rejected the defense's application for an adjournment of the hearing until January to give it time to gather new evidence to defend against the prosecution's superseding indictment. Julian Assange in parliament in 2018 before adding: It is of great regret that Julian Assange remains in the Ecuador embassy, where he had been given political asylum by the Ecuadorian government. But, dont put a finger in the eye of the rest of the planet and expect to be applauded for your virtuous rigor on the world stage. in the British military and intelligence establishment a highly controversial issue given that Lady Arbuthnot has made rulings in the Assange case and continues to oversee it as chief magistrate. to a house in Higham, a small village with 140 people, also in Suffolk. This cookie is setup by doubleclick.net. Just another license to kill. Declassified has discovered that the addresses given by Lord Arbuthnot and other parliamentarians for Tertulias and Tatlidil have been the same despite no obvious connection between the two organisations other than the UK Foreign Office. The District Judge found that extradition would be a disproportionate interference with Ms Gebhardts and her daughters family rights, hXXps://www.5sah.co.uk/news-and-events/news/2016-01-22/extradition-case-discharged. The MOJ officer stated: I can confirm that the MOJ holds the information that you have requested. A judiciary spokesman has. The information officer also noted that it holds all the information you have requested rather than some in the case of Baraitser. Arbuthnot hears many of the most sensitive or complex cases in the magistrates courts and in particular extradition and special jurisdiction cases. Profound support for Asssange has come from 60 mins in Australia and it is starting to surface with the ABC too. This cookie is set by twitter.com. But, in January 2020,Declassifiedhad requested the same information for the period when Sajid Javid was home secretary, April 2018 July 2019. , Until This DayHistorical Perspectives on the News. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, met with Assanges wife, Julian Assange receives Keys to Mexico City. The U.S. has 14 days to appeal the ruling, which has come after weeks of hearings at London's Old Bailey . Declassified UK. I found the prosecutions appeal, which includes the crimes allegedly committed by the defendant. In the High Court prisoners frequently sat with their lawyers in extradition hearings, in extreme cases of violent criminals handcuffed to a security officer. Declassified found that its current president is Jose de Areilza, a Spanish law professor who is also a board member of the Spanish Ministry of Defence. To optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites such as what pages have been loaded. overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that the United States prosecution against my husband is a . Sitting in London, Lord Justice Holroyde said he believed it was arguable that Judge Vanessa Baraitser had attached too much weight to the evidence of Prof Michael Kopelman when deciding not to . The purpose of the cookie is not known yet. Interesting to note date of appointment is in 2011. Britain has always been ruled by fascholes, with a lot of window dressing. Lady Arbuthnots first ruling on Assange was made in February 2018 while he was a political asylee in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. On May 15, 2020, Declassifiedsent a further FOI request, this time to the Home Office, asking for information on any phone calls or emails made or received by the current Home Secretary Priti Patel concerning the Assange case. "Yes, she really did say that. Both children attended the ceremony on Wednesday, along with Mr Assange's father and brother. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The UK delegation to the 2014 meeting in Istanbul was, in Edinburgh the previous year. Court releases police video of hammer . Indeed the average proprietor of a rural car wash has left more evidence of their existence and life history on the internet than Vanessa Baraitser. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is "opressive" (s.91). Then foreign minister Tobias Ellwood spoke at the forum while former foreign secretary Jack Straw, who is a co-chair of Tatlidil, presided over one of the discussions. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Fitzgerald declined to agree, saying the Act did not say extradition for political offences could not be banned by the treaty enabling extradition. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". At the time Lady Arbuthnot was deputy senior district judge. It is unclear why the HM Courts and Tribunals Service would hold only partial information on Baraitser, but not on Barron. Speak the truth, tell others. Liz Truss, then minister for DEFRA, speaks in the Guggenheim museum at the secretive Tertulias meeting in Bilbao, Spain, 18 October 2014. 17 June 2022:Home Secretary Priti Patel approves the extradition order to extradite Julian Assange to the United States. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who is still overseen by Lady Arbuthnot will rule on the extradition proceedings which begin on 25 February. The data collected is used for analysis. The cookie is used for recognizing the browser or device when users return to their site or one of their partner's site. ;-). These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Whats the overall average rate? This cookie is set by Segment.io. Tatlidil, which means sweet talk in Turkish, was established in 2011 by then prime minister David Cameron and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoan. Tatlidil was openly set up by the UK government, but Tertulias is also closely linked to the Foreign Office, which describes Tertulias as one of its partnerships and in 2013 referred to the forum as our Tertulias. Lord Arbuthnot recorded that the costs of his attending his first forum in 2000 were partly met by a grant from the Foreign Office. No political extradition was in the European Convention on Extradition, the Model United Nations Extradition Treaty and the Interpol Convention on Extradition. Mr Assange's case will now go back to District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, the original judge who assessed the American extradition request. This collected information is used to sort out the users based on demographics and geographical locations inorder to serve them with relevant online advertising. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has married his long-term partner at a high-security prison in London. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser Related content Download USA-v-Assange-judgment-040121.pdf file USA-v-Assange-judgment-040121.pdf 1.46 mb Mr Assange faces an 18-count indictment from the US government, which accuses him of conspiring to hack into military databases to acquire sensitive information relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. On this occasion, the request was not blocked. Lady Arbuthnot also benefited financially from another trip with her husband in 2014, this time to Istanbul for the British-Turkish Tatlidil, a forum established by the UK and Turkish governments for high level individuals involved in politics and business. Yes, but who knew? Julian Assange supporters demonstrate outside the Westminster Magistrates Court during his bail hearing at the court, where Judger Vanessa Baraitser denied bail in London, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. I suppose attempting to take a photo is a crime that could catch somebody arriving with a large SLR, tripod and several mounted lighting boxes, but none of those appeared to have made it into the public gallery. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. Baraitser wrote in her judgment at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court: "They are alleged to have been committed in circumstances connected with the political campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. DM, Matt Kennard is head of investigations and Mark Curtis editor, of Declassified UK, a media organisation investigating UK foreign, military and intelligence policies. Declassifiedclarified that it wanted the list to include the date, the defendant, the charge and the judges decision. WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, will not be extradited to the US, after a UK court deemed him at risk of suicide and self-harm. "[5][6][7][8][9] Baraitser said "I am satisfied that there is no or insufficient evidence that the French authorities have manipulated or used procedures to oppress or unfairly prejudice Mr Djouhri." The UK delegation to the 2014 meeting in Istanbul was led by Prince Andrew, who also hosted the Tatlidil in Edinburgh the previous year. The United States Government appeals. . "He's the most amazing person.". In a keyjudgmentin February 2018, Arbuthnot rejected the findings of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention a body composed of international legal experts that Assange was beingarbitrarily detained, characterised Assanges stay in the embassy as voluntary and concluded Assanges health and mental state was of minor importance. Lady Arbuthnot is also likely to have approved of Baraitsers appointment to hear the Assange case. This page was last edited on 2 January 2022, at 14:25. Despite daily lists of the cases heard at Woolwich being freely available, Matt Kennard is head of investigations, and Mark Curtis is editor, at, UK Refuses to Release Information on Assange Judge Who Has 96 Percent Approval Rate in Extradition Cases, Make your tax-deductible donation by clicking, COVID-19: Poverty Weaponized By Elite as US Eviction Crisis Looms, UPRISING: Militias Warning of Excessive Federal Power Comes True But Where Are They? All the addresses are residential with no clear reason why they would be official addresses of high-level Foreign Office-linked fora. have been the same despite no obvious connection between the two organisations other than the UK Foreign Office. This judge, Vanessa Baraitser - actually she isn't a judge at all; she's a magistrate - shocked all of us who were there. on Assange in June 2019. They tweet at @DCKennard and @markcurtis30. Yes, the UK justice system has been maliciously subverted to serve the interests of the likes of Patel and the Arbuthnots. Following these meetings Patel lobbied for UK involvement in Israeli operations in the Golan Heights and called for Britain to begin sending military aid to Israel. UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser on Monday blocked the US . These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites. The learned lady can reject the extradition, or keep looking over her shoulder for the rest of her miserable life. But the request was rejected since the officer claimed it was not consistent with the Constitutional Reform Act. We have not put it behind a paywall because the truth should not be a luxury. Video, Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims, US-made cheese can be called 'gruyere' - court, AOC under investigation for Met Gala dress, The children left behind in Cuba's exodus, Nelson's 97th-minute stunner gives Arsenal victory, Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore dies at 61, Alex Murdaugh's legal troubles are far from over, Walkie Talkie architect Rafael Violy dies aged 78. This request, sent on March 31, 2020, was again rejected. In the latest entries, the organisations address is listed only as private. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is "opressive" (s.91). Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. The officer added that the information requested would in any event be exempt from disclosure because it contains personal data about the cases ruled on by an individual judge, and that personal data can only be released if to do so would not contravene any of the data protection principles in the Data Protection Act. Judge Vanessa Baraitser delivered the judgement at the central criminal court in London. One thing fails me: with so many alleged violations, why is the defence team not submitting the case to the European Court of Human Rights? Declassified also revealed that the Arbuthnots son is linked to an anti-data leak company created by the UK intelligence establishment and staffed by officials recruited from US intelligence agencies behind that countrys prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder. It can further be revealed that Lady Emma Arbuthnot was appointed Chief Magistrate in Westminster on the advice of a Conservative government minister with whom she had attended a secretive meeting organised by one of these Foreign Office partner organisations two years before. Erdoan spoke at the meeting and reportedly. Lord Arbuthnot can be seen standing next to her, likely having just introduced his fellow Conservative MP. This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags. There were reasons, however, to be suspicious of what Baraitser was really up to even as she made her ruling in Assange's favor. In addition to certain standard Google cookies, reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. dead judges, to endorse their point of view, and thus repeating the same points continually with little value from exegesis of the innumerable quotes. Liz Truss was in Bilbao for three days and accrued expenses of 1,235.48 paid by Tertulias. Which is no crime on her part, but I suspect the expunging is not achieved without considerable effort.

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