Wikileaks Founder Agrees To Extradition To US Under Certain Conditions

Assange is conditioning his willingness to go to the United States on having his rights under U.S. law guaranteed in any potential legal trial,

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears at the window before speaking on the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

(REPORT) --- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week offered to submit himself to extradition to the United States in return for clemency for whistleblower Chelsea Manning. After President Obama commuted Manning’s sentence yesterday, Assange’s status became the next obvious question. Assange, however, is also conditioning his willingness to

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As Obama Moves To Free Manning & Rivera, Others Still Hope For Clemency

President Obama commuted the sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar López Rivera on Tuesday as other political prisoners — many held for decades on charges related to black and Native American movements — make their final pushes for clemency under Obama.

Joe Catron
بواسطة Joe Catron
Marchers carry a large painting of American Indian Leonard Peltier during a "National Day of Mourning," Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

NEW YORK --- As supporters celebrated the White House’s announcement on Tuesday that President Barack Obama had commuted the sentence of Puerto Rican icon Oscar López Rivera, convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1981 for his role in the pro-independence Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, others sentenced on political charges decades ago are

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First Chance At Life: On Chelsea Manning’s Freedom

Very few people supported Manning when it became known that she was the person responsible for making disclosures to WikiLeaks. With President Obama’s action, millions celebrate her release.

Kevin Gosztola
بواسطة Kevin Gosztola
chelsea manning

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. A grassroots effort led by committed activists, which was bolstered by human rights campaigners and prominent individuals, pushed President Barack Obama’s administration to free Chelsea Manning. The United States Army whistleblower was sentenced to military prison for 35 years. She was convicted of

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DOJ Source Says Chelsea Manning On Obama’s “Short List” For Commutation

‘President Obama has nine days to do the right thing and commute her sentence.’

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
CHELSEAMANNING

(REPORT) --- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is on President Barack Obama's "short list" for a potential commutation, a Department of Justice source told NBC News, which adds that the president's decision could be announced as early as Wednesday. Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking evidence of military crimes, has faced solitary

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Petition To Reduce Manning’s Sentence Passes 100k Required For White House Reponse

Now the White House will have to respond to the petition in 60 days.

teleSUR
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Daniel Ellsberg

A formal White House petition calling for reducing the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier serving a 37-year prison sentence for leaking classified documents relating to U.S. war crimes in Iraq, surpassed 100,000 signatures which means the U.S. administration has to respond to the demand. "We did it! Thank you so much for your love and

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Chelsea Manning Supporters Launch Last-Ditch Call for Clemency

Friend and attorney Chase Strangio tells Obama, ‘Her life is in your hands.’

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
chelsea manning

With mere weeks left under an Obama presidency, advocates have launched what they describe as a last ditch effort to save national security whistleblower Chelsea Manningbefore Donald Trump and his team of pro-torture, anti-LGBTQ war hawks ascend to power. With a protest outside the White House on Saturday and a vigil outside Fort Leavenworth

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