Dear friends we had the amazing pleasure this week to participate in solidarity with Whistleblower Chelsea Manning and Publisher Julian Assange during a time of celebration.
Celebrate #ChelseaManning's release (& more) at this:
"Remembering; Celebrating; Solidarity"
event in #Dublin Sun 21 May. All welcome. pic.twitter.com/05Vxpzozgj— WISE Up Wales (@WISEUpWales) May 11, 2017
Chelsea Manning was released on Wednesday 17th of May 2017, International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and Julian Assange’s saw the case against him dropped by the Swedish Prosecutors paving the way for an end to his Arbitrary Detention by Sweden and the UK. Both individuals have suffered in the hands of states for the last seven years. Chelsea Manning with treatment tantamount to torture, an unjust legal process, with imprisonment and life threatening lack of medical care within the military penitentiary system. Julian Assange with an all out assault to prevent him carrying on his WikiLeaks’ work. He faced and extrajudicial processes to cut off financial resources, robbing him of the right to earn his living and operate his organisation, curtailing him from being able to finance his legal defence. He faced a political conspiracy in Sweden were an initiative by two occasional sexual partners to re-assure themselves over their sexual health was turned by Swedish institutions into a witch-hunt for misconduct and crime that led to his Arbitrary Detention, defamation, psychological torture and separation from his family and young children.
Free Julian! ❤️was epic to be there when he spoke today! Feeling so happy pic.twitter.com/ri0yg33qCP
— Wendy Hijazi (@wendysone1) May 19, 2017
Victory4Assange :-) Counting down to Freedom we keep going with our solidarity work in support of #WikiLeaks founder Julian #Assange pic.twitter.com/XabrOfV1Q7
— Emmy Butlin (@greekemmy) May 19, 2017
Sky interview on Assange win with @PeterTatchellhttps://t.co/wHk5tizn0W
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 20, 2017
@greekemmy My Sky News interview opposing US bid to prosecute Julian #Assange for exposing US war crimes & cover ups https://t.co/fRBSym8ZF3
— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) May 22, 2017
By popular demand: My report from Stockholm (in English) Sweden Drops Case Against @JulianAssange of @wikileaks https://t.co/JkpzxgJZoh
— Peter Kofod (@peterkofod) May 21, 2017