The US “assurances” are not worth the paper they are written on. Tranter notes that following a redacted section, the document continues: “However, the UK High Court’s judgment does note that the US has provided an assurance that they will consent to Mr Assange being transferred to Australia to serve any custodial sentence on him if he is convicted.” With this hanging over his head, the document suggests that perhaps Assange will feel compelled to plead guilty to the “crime” of journalism, revealing the illegal killings of civilians, torture and other violations of international law. The hearings would proceed in secret and Assange’s detention regime would be one of total isolation. He would be hauled before a kangaroo court in the Eastern District of Virginia, with a jury likely stacked by the very same CIA officers and their relatives.
In other words, Assange is to be extradited to the US, where the former Trump administration and the CIA plotted to kidnap or assassinate him from London in 2017, before settling on a pseudo-legal criminal indictment. “If surrendered, convicted and sentenced in the US, Assange could apply under the ITP scheme to serve his sentence in Australia ” “International prisoner transfers to Australia are initiated by an application from a prisoner after the prisoner has been convicted and sentenced “Prisoner transfers cannot be agreed between governments in advance of a person being a prisoner (after a criminal trial, conviction and sentencing) in a particular country, and require the consent of the prisoner It is entitled: “Julian Assange – International Transfer of Prisoners process – talking points and background.” Its heading indicates the central preoccupation of the document, which states: The first are internal “talking points” prepared for Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus on June 2. What is present, however, gives a sufficient picture of Labor’s acquiescence to Assange’s extradition, and the cynical, duplicitous character of the ambiguous public statements its leading representatives have made. Those released by Declassified Australia are the first she has published since the Labor government was installed after the May 21 federal election. Tranter, a longstanding legal advisor to Assange, has for many years filed freedom of information requests aimed at acquiring official documents revealing the role of Australian governments in the persecution of Assange. A successful extradition would also set a sweeping precedent for attacks on journalists and political dissidents globally.Īssange faces 17 charges under the Espionage Act, and 175 years imprisonment, for publishing true information exposing massive US-led war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. They show that Labor is willing to let Assange be sent to the US, despite doctors and his family warning that it would be a death sentence. The material gives the lie to the claims of Labor supporters that the newly-elected government may be seeking to secure Assange’s freedom through backroom diplomacy, despite the refusal of Labor ministers to condemn the attempted US extradition and prosecution.
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