The video interview with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange -
made by Berenice Galli (CNGNN), edited and published by
Pandora TV directed by Giulietto Chiesa - constitutes a
document of great importance for the defense of the
democracy, increasingly under attack by a system
political-media that uses repression and mystification for
silence the truth. To better understand
the interview, we summarize below the events they have
led to the dramatic situation in which it finds itself today
Julian Assange. We invite you to spread this as much as possible
Information, thus contributing to the campaign
international for the release of Julian Assange.
Julian Assange was born in 1971 a Townsville in Australia, Gives
an artist, Christine Assange, He is an architect, John Shipton.
At sixteen, can already write computer programs. Towards the
in the late 1980s he became a member of a group of
hacker noto come International Subversives.
in 1991 broke into his Melbourne home from
part of the Australian Federal Police, with the accusation of having
infiltrated the Pentagon's computer system. in 1992 The
twenty-four counts are filed for crimes of
“Hacking”. Assange is doomed, but later
is released for good behavior, after paying a big one
more.
from 2006 is among the promoters of the WikiLeaks website,
of which he becomes editor in chief. WikiLeaks over the years
publishes documents from anonymous sources and secret information
about corrupt politicians, political assassins, repression and wars. The
material published between 2006 and the 2009 attracts
sporadic media attention, but it is the Chelsea case
Manning leading WikiLeaks, in 2010. to the center
of international interest.
Chelsea Manning, US activist, is accused of having
provided WikiLeaks with thousands of confidential documents of which it was
learned from working as an intelligence analyst
of the US Army during the Iraq war. He comes for this
sentenced to 37 years of imprisonment in a rough prison
safety. Released later 7 years of hard prison, SARA
re-incarcerated in 2019 for refusing to
testify against Assange.
in 2010 WikiLeaks makes it public as well 250.000
US documents, many of which are labeled as
“confidential” The “secrets”. Among these several videos on
massacres of civilians carried out by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.
WikiLeaks is under investigation in Australia and Julian
Assange risks arrest again.
In the same year, while Assange is in Britain, The
Swedish court in Stockholm issues a
arrest warrant in absentia, with the accusation of having had
unprotected sexual intercourse, albeit consenting, with two
women. Assange, spontaneously presented himself in the offices of
Scotland Yard, is arrested under a warrant of
European capture. Assange is released on bail, ma la
Sweden asks for his extradition from Great Britain, col
clear intent to extradite him to the United States where he awaits him
a trial for espionage involving life imprisonment or a sentence
of death.
in 2012 the British Supreme Court decrees his
extradition to Sweden. Assange takes refuge, in London,
in the Embassy of Ecuador which guarantees him the right to
asylum. Here he remains confined for seven years, despite that too
a United Nations Commission denounces the fact that Assange is arbitrarily and illegally detained in Great Britain.
Meanwhile WikiLeaks continues its activity. in 2016
publish over 30.000 emails and documents sent and received between
The 2010 and the 2014 da Hillary Clinton, State Secretary
of the Obama administration. Among these, an email from 2
April 2011, which reveals the true purpose of the war
USA / NATO to Libya pursued in particular by the USA and
France: prevent Gaddafi from using the gold reserves of the
Libya to create a pan-African currency alternative to the
dollar and the CFA franc, the currency imposed by France a 14
former colonies.
The growing international pressure, exercised on Ecuador
especially from the United States, Great Britain and Sweden, reaches
its purpose. Deprived by Ecuador of the right to asylum, Julian
Assange is arrested in April 2019 by police
britannica, with the charge of having evaded the mandate
issued by the Supreme Court in 2012.
The UN Head of Torture, Nils Melzer, After
visiting him in the British rough jail
safety, declares: “Julian Assange is being held in a prison
of maximum security, under surveillance conditions e
extreme and unjustified isolation, shows all symptoms
typical of prolonged exposure to psychological torture. E
it is necessary for the British government to release him immediately
to protect his health and dignity. It is also from
exclude his extradition to the US”.
The life of Julian Assange, in fact kidnapped and detained in
inhuman conditions (he is even forbidden to see i
sons), is increasingly in danger, both for the long years of
sufferings that have deteriorated his health, both for the
dangerous situation in which he would find himself if he were extradited
In the USA. Here it would be in the hands of those who have everything
the interest in not getting it to a process that, mostly
if it allowed the accused to defend himself, would be
extremely embarrassing for the political establishment-
military.
