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To contrast UK prisons with the dystopian hellhole of the US, here's what the judge said about how relatively good Assange has it in Belmarsh. She may use this to keep him in. Either way, Americans should reflect on how barbaric US "super-max" prison system is. It's repulsive.pic.twitter.com/QMXiVjNZOm
This is one thing Americans should really reflect on. The British are as authoritarian as it gets in W. Europe, deeply subservient to the US. Yet this is the third time they're refused to extradite on the grounds that the US prison system is barbaric:pic.twitter.com/ZDqLT2McB7
By the way, the two people most responsible for the Trump DOJ's efforts to try to extradite and prosecute Assange -- after even the press-freedom-hating Obama DOJ considered but then refused to do so -- are Jeff Sessions and Mike Pompeo. Both are vile:https://theintercept.com/2017/04/14/trumps-cia-director-pompeo-targeting-wikileaks-explicitly-threatens-speech-and-press-freedoms/ …
At the request of Assange's lawyers - who want to build their best case for why his current prison conditions are oppressive and why they can offer guarantees that he won't abscond - the judge set the bail hearing for Wednesday to determine if Assange will be free pending appeal.
The amazing thing is that when you mention Assange, the only people who pop up to demand he be imprisoned and prosecuted are US liberals. They don't realize how isolated in the world they are: the only ones on the side of Pompeo, CIA & the DOJ. But that's 100% who they are.
Given the gravity of this case and the importance to press freedom, it is scandalous - yet revealing - how little attention US media paid to it, barely covering the proceedings.
Please follow & support the independent journalists who did: @richimedhurst, @kgosztola and others.
Statement of @FreedomofPress on Assange ruling:
"Today’s ruling is a huge sigh of relief for anyone who cares about press freedom...[It] means US Govt likely won’t be able to obtain any precedent that would criminalize common newsgathering practices."https://freedom.press/news/assange-extradition-rejected-huge-sigh-relief-press-freedom/ …
The @FreedomofPress statement also notes:
"Virtually all major press freedom and human rights groups have condemned the US government’s attempt to prosecute Assange as an existential threat to journalists’ rights."
It's Pompeo/CIA/neocons/US-liberals v. the world.
But Glen, it’s the freest nation in the world. How could we even have the highest prison population 
Maybe but it’s definitely not the issue at stake here. The issue is the right to inform and that right was not upheld today.
Norwegian supreme court turned down an extradition(murder) to the US because "the prison he will serve in doesn't meet basic human rights standards".
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Mohamed Elmaazi
