Hi All,
Watch an exclusive report featuring this petitions actions via TRT London. I am featured as the Petitioner in this investigative report.
We have passed 300,000 Signatories. keep Resharing petition link http://chng.it/JhcyKbg44x
We are now starting to secure significant favourability with the mainstream media. Thankyou to TRT London for running this program from the inclusive perspective of the grass roots of Citizens of the world.
Our pressure for Ministerial intervention has just hit overdrive and will be impossible for both the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to ignore. Much much more is coming, from Alan Jones as well after our swamping of the online Facebook poll that was pulled by te media outlet after we pasted 75% approval. Alan Jones (influential Australian media personality) is now 100% on side and will take this matter to the Foreign Minister. I will try to keep you posted.
See below script copy from a copy and paste of James Ricketson's letter to the Foreign Minister of Australia. James Ricketson is in London and outside Belmarsh right now. James Ricketson is an Australian Filmmaker and Publisher who was formerly Jailed under Espionage charges in Cambodia. and was feed after direct intervention by the former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and former Foreign Minster Julie Bishop.
++++below is the copy and paste of the script. My apologies for the formatting mix up as it is a product of the incompatible format on uploading into the Change Update platform. But I am sure you will get the idea
James Ricketson
Woolwich Crown Court Plumstead,United Kingdom
Marise Payne
Foreign Minister
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 27th Feb 2020
Dear Foreign Minister
I am writing to you in relation to “Our Ratbag”, Julian Assange.
Is there a representative of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) present in Woolwich crown court this week observing the extradition legal proceedings. If not, why not?
If DFAT is monitoring this case, is the DFAT representative satisfied that Julian Assange’s legal and human rights, as an Australian citizen, are being adequately protected?
Given that the court is connected to Belmarsh prison by a secure tunnel, does the Australian government believe that it is necessary for Mr Assange to be strip searched on his way to and from court? To be handcuffed 11 times in one day? To be shifted into and out of 5 different holding cells?
Do you, Minister, as a lawyer yourself, believe that it is necessary for this Australian citizen, found guilty of no crime and with no record at all of physical violence, to be sequestered in a glass cage that makes it difficult for him to hear what is said in court?
Do you believe that justice is being served by the Magistrate not allowing Mr Assange to sit with his legal team? By his not being able to talk with them face to face? To discuss legal strategy?
Is it a matter of concern to you, and to Attorney General Christian Porter, (also a lawyer) that Mr Assange’s legal documents are confiscated from him at the end of a day’s legal proceedings, thus making it impossible for him to review these? Surely, the prevention of communication between a defendant and his lawyers is an abuse of due process?
Is it a matter of concern to the Australian government that what we are seeing unfold in Woolwich court is an indication of the kind of treatment Julian Assange can expect in the US if he is extradited?
I look forward to your replies, Minister, as do the ever-increasing number of Australians who wonder why the Australian government is sitting on its hands in relation to Assange and want, as does Alan Jones, for “Our Ratbag” to be safely returned to his family in the country of his birth, Australia.
Yours sincerely
James Ricketson
cc Australian media and others concerned by the ramifications for freedom of speech, freedom of the press and democracy itself of Julian Assange's extradition to the US.
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Till Next Time.Love and Great health to all of us, People Power Right Here Right Now. Free Julian Assange Save our Democracy
Phillip Adams
The Petitioner