Assange Hearing Day 19

This is the supermax prison the US government wants to lock Assange up in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence. Take a look at the other high-profile inmates: terrorists, actual spies, organized crime bosses. The prison was established to house "those prisoners most capable of violence toward staff or other inmates."

They want to throw Assange in there for the rest of his life for the crime of publishing the US' dirty secrets. The worst thing they have on him is basically saying "I'll look into it" when Manning sent him (or someone else at Wikileaks - we don't even know) a hash.

The NY Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and other newspapers have issued statements about the danger of this prosecution, but beyond that, they've barely reported on it. They're the ones that benefited from the leaks - they got to publish and report on the cables. The Guardian itself made Assange's situation even worse, by publishing the decryption key to the unredacted cables (The Guardian's journalists apparently did not understand that publishing the encryption key was equivalent to publishing the cables themselves). These newspapers should be raising a much bigger ruckus about this case.

Just a quick comment to say that I would enjoy reading more about this hearing from other perspectives, but am unable to find many other sources.

I'm Australian and view the extradition as an important question - regardless of anyone's views of Assange as an individual. The media here only really covered that Assange interrupted the proceedings, and when the hearing was interrupted by the COVID19 testing.