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Mon. D13 6pm@ OZEmbassy: Australians in London Demand Release of Assange&Confront OZGovt. Complicity
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Sunday December 12, 2010 09:44 by Australians in London 4 Immediate Release of Julian Assange

6pm MONDAY DEC 13th.
*Australian Embassy, The Strand, London
If you can attend, RSVP your intention to attend on Monday
by phone/txt Ciaron at 079 392 905 76 ...this will help us organise the event
***if the response is large today/ Sunday...we may start the vigil earlier at 4.30 pm (formalities, spechs, music will be at 6 pm ither way) while the embassy is open.......check this Irish indymedia thread for updates..or make contact on the mobile number provided...
PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL AND POST ON THE INTERNET OR FACEBOOK ETC.
6pm MONDAY DEC 13th. *Australian Embassy London *"Australians Demanding the Release of Julian Assange"
If you can attend, RSVP your intention to attend on Monday
by phone/txt Ciaron at 079 392 905 76
this will help us organise the event
* If you know any Australians based in or around London, consider forwarding this email to them!
More information Ph./ Text Ciaron O'Reilly 079 392 905 76
From outside UK +44 79 392 905 76
Landline 0208 348 8212
Outside UK + 44 208 348 8212
YOUTUBE (2 ins 22 secs) from outside of Julian Assange's initial bail hearing last Tuesday
Dec 7th.
http://youtu.be/8Tw98tv0sso
Julian Assange/ Wikileaks comes from Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Julian remains in Wandsworth Prison/ London unjustly denied bail.
Julian has another bail hearing in London
TUESDAY 14 DECEMBER, 1.00PM
WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES COURT
70 HORSEFERRY ROAD, LONDON SW1 P2
***Non-Australians are welcome in a support role at this D13 Monday 6pm event at Australia House
***The 6 pm event will be preceeded, in 9-5 Embassy opening hours, by delivery of a letter to embassy officials demanding .....
- the immediate release of Julian Assange!
- the proactive involvement of the Australian Embassy to defend, and advocate for, the civil rights of Australian citizen Julian Assange, presently imprisoned in Britain.
- that the Australian government immediately ceases co-operation in the persecution Julain Assange and Wikileaks.
Present Signatories
"Australians in London Demanding the Release of Julian Assange"
- Peter Tatchell, (from Melbourne, Australia) London based, Human Rights Activist
http://www.petertatchell.net/
- Michael Dutton, (from Brisbane, Australia) Professor of Politics,
Goldsmiths University of London.
- Deborah Kessler, (from Brisbane, Australia) concerned citizen.
- Ciaron O'Reilly, (from Brisbane, Australian), London Catholic Worker/ Ploughshares.
http://www.londoncatholicworker.org/
- Eden Boucher, (from Adelaide, Australia) musician "Lovers Electric".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_Electric
- David Turley, (from Adelaide, Australia), musician "Lovers Electric".
- Sharon Turley, (from Adelaide, Australia) classical musician.
- Saul Newman, teaches Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
- John Hutnyk, (from Melbourne, Australia) Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths Univrsity of London.
- Peter Thomas (from Rockhampton, Queensland) teaches History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London.
- Maria Albrecht, (from Melbourne, Australia) Catholic Worker Farmhouse
http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/
Apologies and best wishes received from......
- John Pilger, film premier of his "The War You Don't See" on the same night!
http://www.johnpilger.com/
- Gerry Conlon, victim of historic British miscarriage of justice in the "Guilford 4" case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire...Seven
TIME - 6pm
DATE Monday Dec 13th.
LOCATION Australia House, Strand, London WC2B 4LA
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and wish to sign this letter. Make contact through.....releasejulianassange at gmail.com
**This letter will be hand delivered to the Australian Embassy, London, Monday December 13th. 2010.
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Australia House
Strand,
London WC2B 4LA
Dear Mr Dauth,
We Australians, here in London and from further afield, ask you to convey our urgent and emphatic request to the Gillard Government to do its utmost to defend Julian Assange’s human rights and the free and lawful operation of Wikileaks.
Australians around the world watch with grave concern as an Australian citizen is vilified by his own Prime Minister and Attorney-General, experienced lawyers whose words display a shocking disregard for the human right to the presumption of innocence, and risk prejudicing any legal proceedings Mr Assange may face.
We welcome the Government’s subsequent assurance that Mr Assange’s passport will not be cancelled and that your embassy will afford him “all appropriate consular assistance.”
We learn from an Australian Government website[1] that the High Commission has a duty to ensure Mr Assange “is treated no less favourably than local citizens detained for similar offences.” UK citizens, of course, enjoy the protection of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantee their right to freedom of expression, presumption of innocence and fair trial. That is, UK citizens enjoy a significantly higher degree of legal protection than do Australians, and the Australian High Commission must ensure Mr Assange’s treatment by UK authorities accords with those more stringent standards.
May we remind all consular staff and the Australian Government that Mr Assange “has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”[2] and to do so “without interference by public authority.”[3]
Further, Mr Assange has a human and legal right to be “presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law” and to be given a fair trial.[4]
As you must know well, it is unlawful under s104 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 for anyone intentionally or recklessly to cause death or serious harm[5] to an Australian citizen outside
Australia. And yet the Australian Government has voiced no objection to the death threats levelled against Mr Assange by high-profile US citizens and others.[7]
In light of the above, we, the undersigned:
1. Ask that Ms Gillard publicly and unequivocally withdraw her statement alleging illegal conduct on Mr Assange’s part, explain to the public why it was wrong for her to say that, and to apologise to Mr Assange.
2. Call on the Gillard Government to robustly defend Mr Assange both at home and abroad and to respect and defend his right to receive information and impart information freely, without interference by any public authority.
3. Ask the Attorney-General to initiate investigations into threats of violence against Mr Assange by persons in the United States and Canada, including Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, in violation of Australian law.
4. Urge the Gillard Government to oppose strenuously any application to have Mr Assange extradited to the United States, because it is unlikely he would receive a fair trial there.
We thank you for your attention to these matters of fundamental importance to a free and democratic society.
[1] ‘Consular services: Arrested, detained and jailed overseas’ (http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/faq.html)
[2] Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (emphasis added). The same is stated more fully in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Australia is a party, and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which also applies to Mr Assange.
[3] ECHR, Art. 10(1)
[4] ECHR, Art. 6 and elsewhere
[5] Including “harm to a person’s mental health (whether temporary or permanent) [including] psychological harm to the person;” and conduct that “endangers, or is likely to endanger, a person’s life” (s146)
[7] See http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/41914.html
Sincerely, your compatriots,
- John Pilger (from Sydney, Australia) http://www.johnpilger.com/
- Peter Tatchell, (from Melbourne, Australia) London based, Human Rights Activist
http://www.petertatchell.net/
- Michael Dutton, (from Brisbane, Australia) Professor of Politics,
Goldsmiths University of London.
- Deborah Kessler, (from Brisbane, Australia) concerned citizen.
- Ciaron O'Reilly, (from Brisbane, Australian), London Catholic Worker/ Ploughshares.
http://www.londoncatholicworker.org/
- Eden Boucher, (from Adelaide, Australia) musician "Lovers Electric".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovers_Electric
- David Turley, (from Adelaide, Australia), musician "Lovers Electric".
- Sharon Turley, (from Adelaide, Australia) classical musician.
- David Warburton (from Adelaid, Australia), Coffee Brewster
- Saul Newman, teaches Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
- John Hutnyk, (from Melbourne, Australia) Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths Univrsity of London.
- Peter Thomas (from Rockhampton, Queensland) teaches History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London.
- Maria Albrecht, (from Melbourne, Australia) Catholic Worker Farmhouse
http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/
Dr Linnell Secomb (from Melbourne, Australia) Head of Department of Social, Political and Cultural Studies, University of Greenwich
Errin Collins, (from Lithgow, Australia) Occupational Therapist
Olivia Ball (from Melbourne, Australia) Author
Eric Snowball (from Sydney, Australia) Social Worker.
Errol O'Neill (from Brisbane, Australia) Actor.
Mary Kelly (from Brisbane,Australia) Trade Unionist.
Dan O'Neill (from Brisbane, Australia) Scholar.