The outgoing US President has a chance to make history of the right sort by pardoning WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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Paul Gregoire writes that if the attorney general really cared about protecting whistleblowers, he would exercise his power and release Richard Boyle today.
Supporters of publisher Julian Assange organised rallies in the lead up to the British High Court’s decision on whether to grant him leave to appeal his extradition to the United States. Tasmania 4 Assange reports.
Binoy Kampmark writes the event was a salutatory reminder that the plight of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who remains in Belmarsh Prison in London, has become one of immediate concern.