Here, the state broadcaster, the BBC, blacked it out, as did the other mainstream channels. But Arbuthnots role in the Assange case is mired in controversy and conflicts of interest due to her familys connections to the British military and intelligence establishment, as, Arbuthnot directly ruled on the Assange case in 2018-19 and has never formally recused herself from it. The warrant related to Assange skipping bail to claim asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, where the Ecuadorian government agreed that he was at risk of political persecution in the United States. Declassified found that its current president is. This cookie is used for authentication and for secure log-in. The only picture we have of Judge Baraitser herself is of her bum getting on a bike after the day's proceedings. Issues at the extradition hearing included section 2, Article 3 (prison conditions concerning the conditions in Focsani prison) and Article 8. At the Old Bailey on Monday, the district judge Vanessa Baraitser will deliver her decision on whether he should be extradited to face the charges in the US, where his lawyers say he faces up to 175 years in jail if convicted. The son of Julian Assange's senior judge is linked to an anti-data leak company created by the UK intelligence establishment and staffed by officials recruited from US intelligence agencies. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. 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. for supporting and guiding the junior judges in her jurisdiction. She has refused to recuse herself despite an obvious conflict of interest stemming from her husband's former job as a Conservative Defence Minister and his work with the Henry Jackson . To optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites such as what pages have been loaded. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Arbuthnot is currently the chair of the advisory board of arms corporation Thales UK and board member of Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, whose president is former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. Brits, judges included, are still just lap dogs for America. on Assange was made in February 2018 while he was a political asylee in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Otherwise they would not have removed the bar in previous legislation. ", "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. 4 January 2021: Westminster Magistrates Court discharges (throws out) the US extradition request against Julian Assange. Next to no other information is available about her in the public domain. I suspect she shouts a lot on trains. The reason for her attending a meeting described by Lord Arbuthnot as bringing MPs, business people, academics and artists together to discuss topical issues is not clear. This article "Vanessa Baraitser" is from Wikipedia. Not, I hasten to add, taken by me. The case is sent back to the Magistrates Court with instruction to issue the extradition order. Home Secretary Priti Patel is then expected to make a final decision. Keep Consortium News going in the tradition of Bob Parry. [10][11][12], Baraitser has ruled that Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is to remain in prison when his jail term ends because of his "history of absconding". As Judge Vanessa Baraitser declared , "The detention conditions in which Mr. Assange is likely to be held are relevant to Mr . A court acts in public. This judge, Vanessa Baraitser - actually she isn't a judge at all; she's a magistrate - shocked all of us who were there. At the 2014 Tertulias attended by Truss and the Arbuthnots, a Spanish banker was awarded a CBE by the Queen on recommendation of the British government. Kathryn persuaded the judge otherwise and she discharged the entire EAW. Be the first to read it by signing up to our free First Thing newsletter. 20 April 2022:The Magistrate issues the extradition order, which is sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel for approval. by Lord Arbuthnot as bringing MPs, business people, academics and artists together to discuss topical issues is not clear. It is unclear what perception of bias Lady Arbuthnot accepts and on what basis she stepped aside from personally hearing the case. In October 2014, Liz Truss, who was then Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), attended the Tertulias meeting in Bilbao, alongside the Arbuthnots, Lidington and at least four other British MPs. Come for all or part of the week! At the time Lady Arbuthnot was deputy senior district judge. She started to resemble something worse than a Dalek, a particularly stupid local government officer of a very low grade. My friend in US who has a law degree was astounded at the fact that Baraitser agreed for journalists to publish his partners name (with small children). Some of her rulings have been criminal violations of the rule of law. Ms Gebhardt had since moved to Germany and is now sole carer for her 8-year-old daughter. When asked about the organisations funders or any personnel involved, including its current parliamentary chair, information was refused. The family were apartheid dissidents in South Africa, and her father is an eminent geneticist. is secret enough for even the department she oversaw as minister at the time DEFRA to have no information on it. On April 10, 2020 Declassifiedsent an identical information request to the MOJ asking for a case list for a different district judge, Justin Barron, who wasappointedon the same day as Baraitser in October 2011. How incompetent would you need to be to attempt to take a photo and fail to do so? On 27 February 2020, Craig Murray reported on day 3 (26 February 2020) of Julian Assange's extradition hearing at Woolwich Crown Court: "Vanessa Baraitser is under a clear instruction to mimic concern by asking, near the end of every session just before we break anyway, if Julian is feeling well and whether he would like a break. In this reprint of the February 1994 Notes from the Editors, former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. DM, Matt Kennard is head of investigations and Mark Curtis editor, of Declassified UK, a media organisation investigating UK foreign, military and intelligence policies. This argument has been made to the court in written form to which I do not have access. When he was grabbed from the Ecuadorian embassy by British police in April 2019, district judge Michael Snow. "Yes, she really did say that. Miralis can only assume that the New South Wales . "Julian's case is often compared with Dreyfus; but historically it's far more important. "He's the most amazing person.". You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. 17 June 2022:Home Secretary Priti Patel approves the extradition order to extradite Julian Assange to the United States. By contrast, Nick Boles MP. Vanessa Baraitser is a British district judge. Copyright 2023 . As prefigured yesterday by Magistrate Baraitser, the prosecution is arguing that Article 4.1 of the UK/US extradition treaty has no force in law. Mr Assange's case will now go back to District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, the original judge who. The High Court rejects the United States Governments arguments that the district judge erred in her findings. She said Assange would be kept in custody, ahead of an appeal from the US. Melzer has said: Mr Assanges continued exposure to severe mental and emotional suffering which, in light of the circumstances, clearly amounts to psychological torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Lady Arbuthnot dismissed the findings of the UN in her 2019 ruling. Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot is married to former Conservative MP James Arbuthnot, a key figure not only in the British military and intelligence establishment, but also in the pro-Israel Lobby in the UK. Assanges lawyers had applied to have his British arrest warrant withdrawn. UK MSM is corrupt; Last October, Europe minister Christopher Pincher attended the forum in Edinburgh and stated that the annual Tertulias dialogue illustrates the breadth and depth of the relationship between the United Kingdom and Spain. 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. Erdoan spoke at the meeting and reportedly called for the removal of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Being angry at the public at random must be very stressful for her. One of the three residential properties which have been recorded by MPs in the parliamentary register of interests as the location of the Tertulias organisation, which funded Lady Arbuthnots trip to Bilbao. 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. ;-) ). 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. This cookie is set by the provider AdRoll.This cookie is used to identify the visitor and to serve them with relevant ads by collecting user behaviour from multiple websites. This cookie is set by Segment.io to check the number of ew and returning visitors to the website. Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. I accept that Mr Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition proceedings but I do not find that Mr Assanges fears were reasonable, she said. 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. Lord Arbuthnot can be seen standing next to her, likely having just introduced his fellow Conservative MP. 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. "The UK and US Governments say that the court enforces domestic law, not international law, and therefore the treaty has no standing. Declassifiedclarified that it wanted the list to include the date, the defendant, the charge and the judges decision. Indeed, exiled off mainstreet, she is as are the Tories and the New Labour lot all enemies of the rule of law. I aways believed that UK stood for United Kingdom. Since the last ruling, overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that the United States prosecution against my husband is a criminal abuse. Kathryn Howarth succeeds in obtaining the discharge of a Romanian EAW before District Judge Baraitser. UK government is corrupt; The expenses were covered by an organisation called Tertulias, chaired by Lady Arbuthnots husband Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, a former Conservative defence minister with extensive links to the British military and intelligence community exposed by WikiLeaks. The appointment of Baraitser to preside over the Assange case remains controversial and the decision untransparent. Over 20 percent of inmates are held for murder. His predecessor Sir Alan Duncan attended the previous forum in Malaga. I do not find that Mr Assanges stay in the Embassy is inappropriate, unjust, unpredictable, unreasonable, unnecessary or disproportionate.. The extradition judge, Vanessa Baraitser, will take only written arguments on November 16. Assanges claims that Lady Arbuthnot was conflicted: His assertion that he has not had a fair hearing is laughable. This cookie is used to set a unique ID to the visitors, which allow third party advertisers to target the visitors with relevant advertisement up to 1 year. The cookie sets a unique anonymous ID for a website visitor. that the estate is owned by Sheikh Mohammed al-Makhtoum, the ruler of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. 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. Truss has accepted from third parties since becoming an MP in 2010. , a Spanish law professor who is also a board member of the Spanish Ministry of Defence. It is used integrate the sharing features of this social media. Julian Assange suffers a transient ischemic attack (TIA) on the first day. In a second ruling a week later, ArbuthnotdismissedAssanges fears of U.K. extradition. Lord Arbuthnots attendance at the forum. Tags: Belmarsh Prison Declassified UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser Julian Assange Lady Emma Arbuthnot Mark Curtis andMatt Kennard. A 'pure' political offence was defined as treason, espionage or sedition. The cookie is used to give a unique number to visitors, and collects data on user behaviour like what page have been visited. Securely by check, creditcard or on Patreon: Make your tax-deductible donation by clicking here. (Photo: Instagram). The appeal will challenge the 2021 decision of District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who said that Assange could be extradited to the US but barred it on mental health grounds, agreeing that he could self-harm if sent to face trial. Two years before, Truss who is now Trade Secretary and Lady Arbuthnot both attended an off-the-record two-day meeting in Bilbao, Spain. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". , There has been no bias demonstrated by the chief magistrate. Arbuthnot has personallyreceivedfinancial benefits from partner organisations of the UK Foreign Office, which in 2018calledAssange a miserable little worm. This cookie is provided by Tribalfusion. Mr Assange's case will now go back to District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, the original judge who assessed the American extradition request. This cookie is set by the Bidswitch. 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. The trip to Bilbao was one of only three Truss has accepted from third parties since becoming an MP in 2010. Holograms have more empathy. The extradition request and its surrounding circumstances constitute an abuse of process. The judge, Vanessa Baraitser, ruled against the U.S. extradition request, citing Assange's fragile mental health, according to the Associated Press. She added "In my view I have substantial ground for believing if I release you, you will abscond again".[13][14][15]. Heres another extradition case Baraitser discharged. Prince Andrew talks to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoan and other officials at the Foreign Office-linked off-the-record British-Turkish Tatlidil forum, 29 November 2014. Lord Arbuthnot can be seen standing next to her, likely having just introduced his fellow Conservative MP. [2][3][4] This French businessman is wanted by France over a series of allegations including active corruption of a foreign public official, conspiracy to misappropriate public funds and money-laundering. Vanessa Baraitser looked at this point very keen to lock someone up. Britains Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assanges extradition, reports Declassified UK. The Perfected Grounds of Appeal contain the arguments on which Julian Assange intends to challenge District Judge Vanessa Baraitsers decision of 4 January 2021, and introduces significant new evidence that has developed since that ruling. Julian Assange is being prosecuted and punished for his political opinions (s.81(a) of the Extradition Act); Julian Assange is being prosecuted for protected speech (Article 10). Sign up to receive Declassifieds monthly newsletterhere. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. The scale of obvious bribery to Arbuthnot, Baraitser, all officers in UK that did lap dog duty outside Embassy I can hardly fathom. From 2013-16, the address changed to a house in Higham, a small village with 140 people, also in Suffolk. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Excuse me. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Judge Vanessa Baraitser delivered the judgement at the central criminal court in London. The greater hope is that a judge or even judges in Britain's court of appeal, the High Court, will rediscover justice and set him free. Judge Vanessa Baraitser is evidently hostile to Mr. Julian Assange and this is witnessed from several individuals attending the hearings at Westminster Magistrate Court as well as during the. Since WikiLeaks disclosed material about Israel in the leak of United States diplomatic cables on 28 November 2010, pro-Israel propagandists in the UK and US have relentlessly attempted to smear Assange with alleged links to anti-Semitism. This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Lord Arbuthnot described the purpose of the visit as to promote and further bilateral relations between Britain and Turkey at a high level. Arbuthnot refused the request. The UK delegation to the 2014 meeting in Istanbul was led by Prince Andrew, who also hosted the Tatlidil in Edinburgh the previous year. Monthly Review Foundation134 W 29TH ST STE 706New York NY 10001-5304Tel: 212-691-2555, Verdict in Julian Assanges extradition case to be delivered on Monday. 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. This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. I hope I live long enough to see these evil people get their comeuppance. Lady Arbuthnot is also likely to have approved of Baraitsers appointment to hear the Assange case. Mr Assange, 50, married Stella Moris on Wednesday in Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since 2019. Having summarily dismissed Julian Assange's bail application, Baraitser ruled on 7 April 2020 that the names of Assanges partner and young children could be published in the interests of open justice. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, met with Assanges wife, Julian Assange receives Keys to Mexico City. Both children attended the ceremony on Wednesday, along with Mr Assange's father and brother. The learned lady can reject the extradition, or keep looking over her shoulder for the rest of her miserable life. I found the prosecutions appeal, which includes the crimes allegedly committed by the defendant. His bail violation of a crime that never was committed, nor was there even a charge laid on him has been over for months and months. . 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). This cookie is used by Cloudflare for load balancing. Lady Arbuthnots husband was parliamentary chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel (2005-2012). The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. A 'relative' political offence was an act which was normally criminal, like assault or vandalism, conducted with a political motive. These are long closed now. He is only being held on remand for US extradition. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel. . This cookie is set by Google and stored under the name dounleclick.com. 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.". There is no Justice in Britain since the Tories and New Labour destroyed not only the NHS but the state. Patel who isalsolinked to Arbuthnots husband, Lord Arbuthnot will sign off Assanges extradition to the U.S. if it is ordered by Baraitser. "Her face was a progression of sneers and imperious indifference; she addressed Julian with an arrogance that reminded me of a magistrate presiding over apartheid South Africa's Race Classification Board. The High Court judges will now decide whether Julian is given the opportunity to put the case against the United States before open court, and in full, at the appeal, said Julian Assanges wife Stella Assange. Lady Arbuthnot has refused to declare any conflicts of interest in the case. 27-28 October 2021:U.S. appeal hearing before the High Court Appeal. The funders of Tertulias and Tatlidil are not known. , an annual forum held for political and corporate leaders in the UK and Spain, is, by the UK Foreign Office as one of its partnerships. District judge Vanessa Baraitser rules that extradition is barred under the 2003 Extradition Act because it is "opressive" (s.91). The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. The cookies stores a unique ID for the purpose of the determining what adverts the users have seen if you have visited any of the advertisers website. The chief magistrate, however, is aware of the judicial conduct guidance that advises on avoiding the perception of bias and is not hearing the case. "Opening his argument, Edward Fitzgerald QC argued that the Extradition Act of 2003 alone is not enough to make an actual extradition. 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.. Liz Truss, Lady Arbuthnot, Lord Arbuthnot, and the Foreign Office, did not respond to requests for comment. The shameful behavior of The Mighty Wurlitzer exposes them as nothing more than shills for Empire duping the masses on a daily basis. 17 June 2022:Home Secretary Priti Patel approves the extradition order to extradite Julian Assange to the United States. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page. . 2023 BBC. 1. The High Court rejects the United States Governments arguments that the district judge erred in her findings. This cookie is set by twitter.com. All but one were espionage charges, and the computer misuse charge had been compared by the prosecution to breach of the official secrets act to meet the dual criminality test. The case is sent back to the Magistrates Court with instruction to issue the extradition order. Lord Arbuthnot records that he became the unpaid chair of Tertulias in 2012, at which time he was also chair of parliaments Defence Committee. After Patel was sacked, self-described passionate Zionist Johnson accelerated his own campaign of pro-Israel advocacy in the Foreign Office in 2018. 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. Removing advertising from your browsing experience is one of them - we don't just block ads, we redesign our pages to look smarter and load faster. Access denied, adjournment denied, exposition of defence evidence denied, removal of superseding indictment charges denied. It was a question of health and safety. Britains former ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley. Unprecedented. Standing to her right is Tertulias chairman, Lord Arbuthnot. had been managed by the same person living at the addresses given by parliamentarians. Declassified is now publishing a photo of Truss giving a speech at the 2014. forum in the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. The judge, Vanessa Baraitser, dismissed the defense's argument, allowing the new material to be used by U.S. government lawyers in making their case. "When he spoke truth and when his barrister spoke, Baraitser contrived boredom; when the prosecuting barrister spoke, she was attentive. It has been. George Galloway says it all. To accept the government's arguments, she will have to disregard weeks of expert testimony debunking the prosecution's legal theories, and she'll have to accept its misleading timeline of events. are secretive gatherings about which little is known and are not obviously connected but Declassified has discovered that the UK address of the two organisations has been the same. And yet, a large number of the UK population think everything is hunky dory ! These decisions includerefusingAssanges request for emergency bail during the Covid-19 pandemic and making him sitbehinda glass screen during the hearing, rather than with his lawyers. Not corrupt. Lord Arbuthnot recorded that the costs of his attending his first forum in 2000 were partly met by a grant from the Foreign Office. Read about our approach to external linking. On January 4th, 2021, Judge Vanessa Baraitser will issue her ruling on whether to approve Julian Assange's extradition. All the addresses are residential with no clear reason why they would be official addresses of high-level Foreign Office-linked fora. Yesterday, she said, a photo had been taken inside the courtroom. The data includes the number of visits, average duration of the visit on the website, pages visited, etc. The cookie is set by Segment.io and is used to analyze how you use the website. If the defence wanted him in the courtroom where he could hear proceedings better, they could only apply for bail and his release from custody in general. The purpose of the cookie is currently not identified. In a London courtroom Monday morning, UK judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that the US cannot extradite Assange to stand trial for criminal charges of hacking conspiracy and violations of the . The Biden Justice Department on Friday formally appealed a British judge's rejection of the U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange, confirming the new administration's intention to run with its predecessor's espionage charges against the WikiLeaks publisher despite warnings that the case endangers press freedoms around the world.

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