Follow Declassified on twitter at @DeclassifiedUK. That struck me, too, though I wondered whether it was a deliberate obfuscation. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. The Assange case is tantamount to the UK and US rule of law killing itself in a thousand tiny cuts. This cookie tracks the advertisement report which helps us to improve the marketing activity. Since the last ruling, overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that the United States prosecution against my husband is a criminal abuse. Despite daily lists of the cases heard at Woolwich being freely availableonline, including names of defendants, an internal review conducted atDeclassifieds request reached the same conclusion. The extradition request and its surrounding circumstances constitute an abuse of process. 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Read about our approach to external linking. But, dont put a finger in the eye of the rest of the planet and expect to be applauded for your virtuous rigor on the world stage. Address for Lady Emma Arbuthnot Sr. Chief Magistrates Office 181 Marylebone Road London NW 1 5BR DX 13551, Marylebone 9. the chair of the advisory board of arms corporation Thales UK and board member of Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, whose president is former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. This cookie is set by Segment.io. The reason for her attending a meeting described by Lord Arbuthnot as bringing MPs, business people, academics and artists together to discuss topical issues is not clear. Mr Assange faces an 18-count indictment from the US government, which accuses him of conspiring to hack into military databases to acquire sensitive information relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The Biden Justice Department on Friday formally appealed a British judge's rejection of the U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange, confirming the new administration's intention to run with its predecessor's espionage charges against the WikiLeaks publisher despite warnings that the case endangers press freedoms around the world. The land registry states that the Higham address is part of the Dalham Estate in Newmarket, and is owned by, , a vehicle incorporated in Guernsey with a PO Box address. Amnesty is on board and mainstream media is showing signs of deep instability regarding Assange. The cookie stores a unique ID to identify a returning user for the purpose of targeted advertising. WINNER OF THE 2017 MARTHA GELLHORN PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM. The Ministry of Justice blocked our FOI request for a list of cases on which she's ruled since being appointed a DJ in 2011. This cookie is used by Google to make advertising more engaging to users and are stored under doubleclick.net. I suspect it is. The information is used for determining when and how often users will see a certain banner. Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot is married to former Conservative MP James Arbuthnot, a key figure not only in the British military and intelligence establishment, but also in the pro-Israel Lobby in the UK. The United States Government appeals. Vanessa Baraitser is a British district judge. Follow Declassified onTwitter,FacebookandYouTube. The judge, Vanessa Baraitser, ruled against the U.S. extradition request, citing Assange's fragile mental health, according to the Associated Press. Be the first to read it by signing up to our free First Thing newsletter. This cookie is set by CloudFlare. They threw confetti and shouted "congratulations" and "free Julian Assange". Which is no crime on her part, but I suspect the expunging is not achieved without considerable effort. He is wanted over the publication of thousands of classified documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. A request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was sent byDeclassifiedto the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) on February 28, 2020 requesting a list of all the cases on which Baraitser has ruled since she was appointed in 2011. Supporting a victim of BWS, battered wife syndrome, also called domestic abuse, spousal abuse. VideoRussian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims, The children left behind in Cuba's mass exodus, Snow, Fire and Lights: Photos of the Week. All of the information is exempt from disclosure under section 32 of the FOIA because it is held in a court record., It added that: Section 32 is an absolute exemption and there is no duty to consider the public interest in disclosure.. Having summarily dismissed Julian Assange's bail application, Baraitser ruled on 7 April 2020 that the names of Assanges partner and young children could be published in the interests of open justice. This cookie is used to measure the number and behavior of the visitors to the website anonymously. The screen of chief . It is unclear what perception of bias Lady Arbuthnot accepts and on what basis she stepped aside from personally hearing the case. "[5][6][7][8][9] Baraitser said "I am satisfied that there is no or insufficient evidence that the French authorities have manipulated or used procedures to oppress or unfairly prejudice Mr Djouhri." If convicted in the U.S., Assange, 50, faces a possible penalty of up to 175 years in jail, his lawyers have said. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. to the register of interests, the address is given by MPs as simply private. Baraitser had controversially moved Assanges hearing to Woolwich which is oftenusedfor terrorism cases before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. It registers the log-in information. Despite the rejection by the MOJ,Declassified has found 24 extradition cases that Baraitser ruled on from November 2015 to May 2019, discovered using the media archive Factiva and Westlaw. And his behaviour is that of a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests, Snow told the court. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser who is still overseen by Lady Arbuthnot will rule on the extradition proceedings which begin on 25 February. This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. It is not known if Lady Arbuthnot was present. At the time Lady Arbuthnot was deputy senior district judge. Yesterday he replied at some length he could not hear properly in his glass box and could not communicate with his lawyers (at some point yesterday they had started preventing him passing notes to his counsel, which I learn was the background to the aggressive prevention of his shaking Baltasar Garzn's hand goodbye). Matt Kennard is head of investigations, and Mark Curtis is editor, at Declassified UK. She also joined a group of Conservative MPs on a trip to Berlin in 2011 and attended in 2019 the annual forum of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a highly secretive meeting organised by the most influential neoconservative think tank in Washington populated by senior US military and intelligence officials. It would have to be up to Group 4 to decide if this was possible. He was arbitrarily detained (which they referred to as arrested) after being dragged out of Embassy over a year ago in violation of so many international laws and treaties and countrys own laws. Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. Jan 4, 2021 (RT) Jubilant scenes have greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser's decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London's Old Bailey courthouse. Speak the truth, tell others. ;-) ). The cookie is set by Krux Digital under the domain krxd.net. Justice has to be seen to be done.. I accept that Mr Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition proceedings but I do not find that Mr Assanges fears were reasonable, she said. Arbuthnot was then also a member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy and chair of Conservative Friends of Israel. Ms Moris, a 38-year-old lawyer, was greeted by a crowd of supporters as she left the ceremony in south-east London. The warrant related to Assange skipping bail to claim asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, where the Ecuadorian government agreed that he was at risk of political persecution in the United States. "On return, Edward Fitzgerald made a formal application for Julian to be allowed to sit beside his lawyers in the court. The information officer also noted that it holds all the information you have requested rather than some in the case of Baraitser. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. Tertulias annual meetings between the UK and Spain have been held since 1989 but the organisation has no public presence and provides no record of events. The UK delegation to the 2014 meeting in Istanbul was, in Edinburgh the previous year. 17 June 2022:Home Secretary Priti Patel approves the extradition order to extradite Julian Assange to the United States. I just got back from the Lincoln County courthouse. This page was last edited on 2 January 2022, at 14:25. When he was grabbed from the Ecuadorian embassy by British police in April 2019, district judge Michael Snow. by Lord Arbuthnot as bringing MPs, business people, academics and artists together to discuss topical issues is not clear. It does not store any personal data. LONDON -- A British judge on Monday rejected the United States' request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges over the publication of secret U.S. documents a. James Arbuthnot and his wife Emma Louise (nee Broadbent) are well-documented war profiteers. He denies any wrongdoing. "The UK and US Governments say that the court enforces domestic law, not international law, and therefore the treaty has no standing. It contains an encrypted unique ID. Lady Arbuthnot also benefited financially from another trip with her husband in 2014, this time to Istanbul for the British-Turkish Tatlidil, a forum established by the UK and Turkish governments for high level individuals involved in politics and business.