Sadly this was a foregone conclusion for anyone that knows a bit about the history of the UK Supreme Court 😓
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Well the thing is in this case there was clealry a point of law that is of general interest, and that concerns other people as well:
Can a state (the US) give "diplomatic assurances" (that they will not torture Assange, unless... ) after a decision of justice was taken, in order to invalidate it? In a context where the defendant couldn't have access to these insurances to be able to properly invalidate them with the use of expert witnesses in first instance?
By claiming that this was NOT a point of law justifying a supreme court appeal, the court implicitly allows the US (and other countries) to "keep their cards to their chest" and not disclose their arguments in first instance extradition procedures to bypass the contradictory procedure, waiting to eventually lose the case to disclose diplomatic assurances...
This is a major blow for whoever still believed in the UK court system, and maybe in "justice" at large in the UK. As they say there: "disgraceful!"... :(
context pls?
I don't doubt that uk supreme court is a shitty organisation, just curious for some prior examples 🤔
I am not British, but I was told the Supreme Court was especially created around the Falkland War and staffed with political appointees to overrule a politically inopportune decision by what had been the highest court in the UK until that time for decades.
And it has been used as such a political tool ever since.
Neo-liberalism is a feudal system disguised as democracy, since it puts the particular interests of an elite before the real sovereignty of a population, the essence of a real democracy.
It's unclear to me how the man could ever have broken any US law. Apparently he's never stepped foot on US soil and is not a US citizen. These two things together make it extremely challenging to engage in espionage against the US.
Did he, or did he not infiltrate some computer system owned by the US government/military? Best I've heard is someone "sent him files". That's not illegal. He had no legal obligation to be loyal to the United States, so anything treason-like is out of the question.
"If you tell the truth you need a damn fast horse"
that's fucking awful, but sadly not unexpected based on experiencing reality lol
i can only hope that if he does end up being "authorized" to be extradicted that the the good british ppl will physically block the convey or smth
UK: Refusal by Supreme Court to grant Assange right to appeal is “a blow for justice”
Responding to a UK Supreme Court decision refusing to grant Julian Assange permission to appeal against the previous High Court ruling permitting his extradition, Amnesty International’s Deputy Research Director for Europe Julia Hall, said:
“Today’s decision is a blow to Julian Assange and to justice. The Supreme Court has missed an opportunity to clarify the UK’s acceptance of deeply flawed diplomatic assurances against torture. Such assurances are inherently unreliable and leave people at risk of severe abuse upon extradition or other transfer.
UK: RSF calls on Home Office to block Assange extradition following Supreme Court refusal to consider appeal
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply disappointed by the refusal of the UK Supreme Court to consider the appeal in the extradition case against Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange. More than two years after extradition proceedings began, the case will now be sent back to the Home Office to take a political decision. RSF urges the Home Office to act in the interest of journalism and press freedom by refusing extradition and immediately releasing Assange from prison.
Western hegemonic dictatorship has:
- laws like Hague Invasion Act
- victims like Assange, Snowden, Hale, Manning, Winner and countless others
- war crimes on half the earth
- hundreds of trillions of dollars looted via colonisation and economic imperialism
- genocides in dozens of countries
- foreign interventions in half the countries on earth
- poverty and systematic discrimination
- Big Tech that is somehow private yet is publicly traded, and not accountable for free speech, and is controlled by Western governments
Who is protecting Snowden from assassination right now? Or for that matter various victims of Western imperialism?
The eastern autocratic dictatorship that is guilty of all your points as well? Is that who you mean?
Tell us more, o wise orientalist, of the crimes of the barbaric asiatic hordes.
They live on one drug - copium. Soon the supplies will dry out. What they have started feeling right now, they will feel every bit of pain from the rockbottom falls, as the effect of the drug ceases, just like capitalism.
Does the UK supreme court function similarly to the USA one?