The Australian Greens are calling upon the Australian Government to take action to ensure WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange's legal and consular rights are upheld.
On December 5, Mr Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden was temporarily upheld. The Supreme Court will decide whether to take the matter further on December 19, and on the basis of that decision Mr Assange could find himself on his way to a holding cell in Gothenberg as early as Boxing Day. Thereafter, there is the potential for him to be transferred to the United States.
Click here for Senator Ludlam's update from London on December 10 or here for audio of an interview from London.
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From London: 10 December 2011
No-one was celebrating when it became apparent that the dense hour of argument and counter argument in the vaulted courtroom number 4 in London had resulted in a further stay of extradition for WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange.The arguments turned on obscure but important skirmishes over the controversial use of European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) to transfer people from one country to another.
To get the technicalities out of the way, leave has been given for Mr Assange's legal team to apply to the Supreme Court to have an argument heard that a politically appointed prosecutor in Sweden doesn't qualify as a ‘Judicial Authority' under mutual assistance agreements between Sweden and the UK.
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Senator Scott Ludlam spent a few days with anti-nuclear campaigners on an epic walk from Wiluna - the proposed site of WA's first uranium mine - to Perth.
In this speech he shares reflections on that journey and pays tribute to the walkers.
