Julian Assange's wife, Stella Assange, visited Australia's Parliament House to thank lawmakers after the WikiLeaks founder landed in Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is back in Australia as a free man, having resolved through a plea deal a U.S. Justice Department case charging him with obtaining and publishing government secrets on his secret-spilling website. It was a stunning resolution to a polarizing drama that landed at the intersection of press freedom and national security, spanned three presidential administrations and played out across multiple continents. The plea deal was the culmination of a lengthy negotiation process that accelerated in recent months and featured numerous proposals and counterproposals.
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In a pointed dissent, Justice Amy Coney Barrett skewered her fellow justices over their decision to narrow an obstruction charge used to prosecute scores of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Friday to side with Joseph Fischer, a former police officer accused of partaking in the…
STORY: “Activists around me have been attacked physically.”This is Tamar Jakeli, the director of Tbilisi Pride in Georgia, where the country’s parliament gave its initial approval on Thursday to a set of bills that amounts to a sweeping suppression of rights for LGBTQ+ people.“Unfortunately, it's been almost every day that someone got physically beaten." "Yeah, it feels quite scary.”The bills could outlaw Pride events and public displays of Pride flags and includes bans on the, quote, “propaganda” of same-sex relationships and gender-affirming surgeries.The package was proposed by the ruling Georgian Dream party and approved by a majority of deputies.It must pass two more readings before becoming law.Parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili has said the bills are necessary to control “LGBT propaganda” which he said was, quote, “altering traditional relations.”The legislation would also ban non-heterosexual people from adopting children.The constitution in deeply religious Georgia, where the country's Orthodox Church enjoys wide public respect, already bans same-sex marriage.But despite a decade of social gains made by LGBTQ+ activists, Jakeli says the government’s regressive turn is having a chilling effect."So, for example, over the last couple of years, we were removed completely from the national human rights strategy and action plan." "So far, I have been physically safe, but my Mom has been getting calls in the middle of the night, she's been getting calls and sometimes she's afraid for my life, my security.”Earlier this month, the Parliamentary speaker said that lawmakers would only vote on the bills’ second and third readings during the autumn session.The proposed measures are likely to fuel EU and U.S. concerns about Georgia’s political direction.Following their criticism of a law on “foreign agents” that critics see as Russian-inspired and which sparked a series of huge protests.Opposition parties, most of which have been boycotting parliament, have described the latest bills as an attempt by Georgian Dream to appeal to conservative-minded voters ahead of the autumn vote.
The Scottish First Minister also said it is ‘really important’ to ensure female-only spaces are protected for women and girls.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that an obstruction law used to charge scores of Jan. 6 rioters and former President Trump was improperly applied, spelling trouble for the Justice Department’s far-reaching prosecution of the Capitol attack. The justices sided 6-3, not along ideological lines, for Joseph Fischer, a former police officer accused of storming the…
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