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10.11.2024 - 18:33 [ docs.google.com ]

Petition to the UN General Assembly: unseating Israel is the only way to preserve the integrity of the international legal system.

Israel systematically infringes its duties towards the UN repeatedly violating the protections afforded to UN bodies such as the UNRWA and UNIFIL. This includes causing the death of UN workers, and bombing UN facilities. Furthermore, it resolutely refuses to engage with UN Mechanisms by not allowing visits from the UN Secretary-General, UN Special Rapporteurs, and the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry, among others. Within the halls of the UN, Israel also repeatedly issues defamatory statements against the organisation. These actions reflect a complete disregard for UN systems and are in breach of international law.

Israel’s systematic denial of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and relentless appropriation of Palestinian land have led to a critical, historical juncture in which the Israeli state is pursuing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians with ruthless, unprecedented force and determination. The very existence of the Palestinian people hinges on ending Israeli impunity and, at long last, realizing their right to control their own political, social, and economic destiny. Additionally, the gravity of the illegalities caused by Israel has raised serious questions about the legitimacy of the international legal system as a whole, threatening its continued integrity.

The General Assembly and its Member States can and must take meaningful action on both fronts —the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the integrity of the international legal system—without delay by unseating the Israeli government from the Assembly, in accordance with the Assembly’s authority to approve the credentials of Member State delegations.

Unseating a state government’s delegation is an exceptional action, but , in this case, it is grounded in precedent—specifically, the unseating of South Africa’s apartheid government from the General Assembly in 1974—and in law. Fifty years ago, the General Assembly exercised its authority under the credentialing rules to unseat South Africa’s delegation, concluding that the government was unrepresentative and therefore illegitimate due to its failure to provide representation to its indigenous Black population. Even though South Africa’s apartheid practices were central to this decision, the removal of the South African delegation was also implicitly grounded in the right of self-determination, which was denied to the country’s Black population by the very nature of apartheid.

As demonstrated by the ICJ’s July 19, 2024 advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s policies and practices in the OPT, the case for unseating Israel’s government for lack of representativeness is just as strong as it was in the case of South Africa, if not stronger.

10.11.2024 - 18:25 [ Middle East Eye ]

Why more than 500 scholars think Israel should be unseated from UN

)November 8, 2024)

More than 500 scholars and practitioners of international law, international relations, conflict studies, politics, and genocide studies have called on the UN General Assembly and its member states to unseat Israel from the assembly.

23.10.2024 - 10:55 [ Zeteo.com ]

EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Lawyers Press Merrick Garland to Investigate Israel’s Killing of American Citizens

The attorneys highlight three categories of potential US code violations the DOJ could investigate:

– The killing of US citizens by Israeli citizens and soldiers in recent years (including Ayşenur Eygi, Kamel Ahmad Jawad, Jacob Flickinger, Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Omar Assad, and Shireen Abu Akleh).

– Israel’s illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, assisted by US citizens and organizations.

– Evidence that Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and engaged in torture – including killing thousands of civilians, forcibly displacement and starvation, unlawful confinement, torture and inhumane treatment of detainees, and mass destruction of civilian property and infrastructure.

“Of‬‭ course,” the attorneys note,‬‭ “U.S.‬‭ courts‬‭ have‬‭ jurisdiction‬‭ over‬‭ the‬‭ more‬‭ than‬‭ 23,000‬‭ U.S.‬‭ citizens‬‭ currently‬‭ serving‬‭ in‬‭ Israel’s‬‭ armed‬‭ forces,‬‭ along‬‭ with‬‭ IDF‬‭ members‬‭ or‬‭ other‬‭ Israeli‬ officials‬‭ that‬‭ travel‬‭ to‬‭ the‬‭ United‬‭ States.

24.04.2024 - 04:40 [ New York Post ]

12 suspended Columbia students reinstated just days after anti-Israel protest, as lawyer vows to take ‘fascist’ school to NY Supreme Court

“Speech, no matter how unpopular it may be, is the essence of academia. Protest against Zionism in Israel is pure protected speech. … If Jewish students are made uncomfortable by it, f— them!” Cohen, who was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, told the Village Sun.

“Speech is supposed to make you uncomfortable. This is not lighting candles and kumbaya. … All speech is protected unless the imminent intent is to commit violence — like shouting ‘Fire!’ in a crowded movie theater,” he added. (…)

“I got f—ing suspended from Columbia 50 years ago. I got thrown out of Columbia after a week for anti-war protesting,” he lamented.

“Columbia is fascist,” he said.

08.04.2024 - 18:04 [ International Court of Justice / Internationaler Gerichtshof ]

Public sitting held on Monday 8 April 2024, at 10 a.m., at the Peace Palace, President Salam presiding, in the case concerning Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany)

The Government of the Republic of Nicaragua is represented by:

HE Mr Carlos José Argüello Gómez, Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Nicaragua to the international organizations based in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, member of the International Law Commission,

as Agent and Counsel;

Mr Alain Pellet, Emeritus Professor of the University Paris Nanterre, former Chairperson of the International Law Commission, member and former President of the Institut de droit international,

Mr Daniel Müller, Founding Partner of FAR Avocats, member of the Paris Bar,

as Counsel and Advocates;

Ms Claudia Loza Obregon, Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua,
Mr Ysam Soualhi, PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Angers,

as Assistant Counsel;

Ms Sherly Noguera de Argüello, Consul General of the Republic of Nicaragua,

as Administrator;

Ms Kassandra Gómez Pineda, First Secretary, Permanent Representation of the Republic of
Nicaragua to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,

Mr Pedro Hernández Balladarez, Financial Administrative Officer, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Nicaragua to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,

HE Mr Ammar Hijazi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates for Multilateral Affairs of the State of Palestine,

HE Mr Omar Awadallah, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates for the United Nations and Specialized Agencies of the State of Palestine,

Mr Federico Argüello Noguera,

as Members of the Delegation.

The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is represented by:

Ms Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, Legal Adviser and Director-General for Legal Affairs, Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany,

as Agent;

Ms Wiebke Rückert, Director for Public International Law, Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany,

30.03.2024 - 19:08 [ Telesur ]

South Africa to Sue US and UK as Complicit in Gaza Genocide

(January 15, 2024)

The United States must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed,‘ says Van Rensburg, who is leading the 47-lawyers team.

“We intend to bring legal proceedings against the U.S. Government based on overwhelming evidence that the U.S. Government has, and is, aiding, abetting and supporting, encouraging or providing material assistance and means to Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces. This conduct by the U.S. Government has enabled and continues to enable Israel to engage in international crimes against the Palestinian people,” the South African lawyers said in a letter sent to US President Joe Biden on January 2.

20.03.2024 - 23:22 [ Yahoo.com ]

Assange team sees no sign of resolving US charges after reported plea deal talks

The Journal reported that the U.S. Justice Department is considering whether to allow Assange to plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information. The newspaper cited people familiar with the matter.

A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment on the report.

15.03.2024 - 16:07 [ International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ]

How US lawyers and bankers aided powerful Haitian tycoons now sanctioned over corruption by Canada

(07.02.2023)

In the early 1990s, the U.S. government sanctioned Bigio, his wife, son and others for their support of a military coup that ousted Haiti’s first democratically elected president. Years later, a member of a Haitian militia ‒ or private army ‒ accused Bigio and another businessman of paying for the 1993 assassination of a prominent democracy activist, according to Jeb Sprauge, author and University of California Riverside research associate. Authorities in Haiti did not charge Bigio with or accuse him of wrongdoing.

25.02.2024 - 07:10 [ Law for Palestine ]

Accountability Now: Palestinians Sue German Government officials for Enabling the Genocide in Gaza

Berlin – 23 February 2024

Today, a group of German lawyers – representing families of two Gazans – is filing a criminal complaint against German Government officials[1], for the crime of aiding and abetting genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza by providing Israel with weapons and issuing related export permissions. They are supported by civil society organisations ELSC (European Legal Support Center), PIPD (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy) and Law for Palestine under the Justice and Accountability for Palestine Initiative. The charges are being filed at the Office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe (‘Generalbundesanwaltschaft’).

In a historic ruling on 26 January 2024 in the case filed by South Africa against Israel for the crime of Genocide, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered provisional measures against the “serious risk” of genocide and stated that the latter is “plausibly taking place”.

25.02.2024 - 07:00 [ NewArab.com ]

German lawyers file genocide complicity case against German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

German lawyers representing Gaza Palestinian families have filed a criminal complaint against German officials – including Chancellor Olaf Scholz – for supplying Israel with weapons that they say aid and abet Israel‘s ongoing genocide in their homeland.

Prosecutors from the Federal Prosecutor‘s office in Karlsruhe will examine the case, and if it goes ahead will open an investigation and question government officials including Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, and Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock, Minister of Finance Christian Lindner, and members of the Bundessicherheitsrat, the government body that authorizes Germany‘s arms export licenses.

20.02.2024 - 10:30 [ International Court of Justice ]

Public sitting held on Monday 19 February 2024, at 10 a.m., at the Peace Palace

33. The only State besides Fiji to defend Israel is the United States. This is not surprising. Whatever offences against international law Israel commits, the United States comes forward to shield it from accountability. Here, the United States attempts to defend Israel, not by arguing that the occupation is lawful, but that it is neither lawful nor unlawful. To reach this conclusion, the United States argues that belligerent occupation is governed exclusively by international humanitarian law and not by the United Nations Charter or general international law. In its own words: “Although international humanitarian law imposes obligations on belligerents in their conduct of an occupation, it does not provide for the legal status of an occupation to be lawful or unlawful.“

20.02.2024 - 10:25 [ Molly Quell, International law for @CourthouseNews / Twitter ]

Reichler says that only Fiji and the US have argued in favour of the occupation.

WHICH WE COULD KNOW FOR OURSELVES IF WE HAD THE WRITTEN STATEMENTS.

13.02.2024 - 17:14 [ Heidi Bachram / Twitter ]

The women who put images of paragliders on themselves during pro-Palestinian protests were defended in court by an ex-Guardian journalist. Apparently they were just cultural references to freedom. How stupid do they think we are?

20.01.2024 - 05:22 [ Dearbhla Minogue, Lawyer @GLAN_LAW / Twitter ]

Palestinian human rights organisation @alhaq_org has forced the gov’t to answer a legal challenge and tell the Court why it has kept granting weapons licences to Israel. The response shows why it was necessary. We @GLAN_LAW are proud to represent them – the pressure is building.

12.01.2024 - 12:50 [ News Live SA / Twitter ]

“South Africa has presented a confusing & a partial recital of the facts. The truth is that if there has been any genocidal activity in this situation it was the events of 7th of October” Prof Malcolm Shaw representing Israel at the International Court of Justice in Netherlands #SouthAfricavsIsrael

11.01.2024 - 16:51 [ Saul Staniforth / Twitter ]

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh „I share with you 2 photos. The first is of a whiteboard.. with a handwritten message by a MSF doctor ‚We did what we could. Remember us‘. The second photo is of the same whiteboard after an Israeli strike on the hospital that killed the author of the message“

11.01.2024 - 16:38 [ Saul Staniforth / Twitter ]

At the ICJ at the Hague Blinne Ni Ghralaigh quotes the words of a pastor delivering a sermon in Bethlehem on Christmas day: „I want you to look in the mirror and ask, where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide“

04.01.2024 - 22:21 [ Naks Bilal / Twitter ]

Israel has selected Malcolm Shaw KC of Essex Court Chambers for representation at the ICJ next week. Appointed KC 22 years ago, is professor of international law at Leicester Uni, and, like virtually all lawyers who act on behalf of Israel, does not believe Palestine’s a state.

04.01.2024 - 22:09 [ Dónal Hassett / Twitter ]

Among South Africa‘s legal team for its case against Israel at the ICJ, Irish lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh. She has, among many other achievements, successfully represented the Colston Four and served as a legal observer at Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

04.01.2024 - 21:52 [ Franny Rabkin / Twitter ]

SA’s legal team for its case to the International Court of Justice against Israel: John Dugard SC, Max du Plessis SC, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC Adila Hassim SC

(31.12.2023)

Juniors: Sarah Pudifin-Jones, Lerato Zikalala, Tshidiso Ramogale

External: Vaughan Lowe KC
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC

17.10.2023 - 14:40 [ Yesh-Din.org ]

Yesh Din: About Us

Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights is an Israeli organization registered as a non-profit in Israel. Yesh Din is subject to Israeli law and is served by a volunteer corps and by a professional staff, lawyers and human rights experts. Yesh Din was established in 2005 and has since worked to protect the human rights of Palestinians living under Israeli armed forces’ occupation. We view the occupation as a main source of the violation of the human rights and therefore seek to end it.

Yesh Din documents, collects and disseminates reliable and updated information regarding systematic human rights violations in the OPT.

17.10.2023 - 14:22 [ Haqel - In Defense of Human Rights ]

Haqel‘s Activities

Haqel‘s legal team is engaged in holistic legal intervention to defend and protect the proprietary rights of Palestinian landowners in the occupied Palestinian territories, working within the framework of Israeli law and defending the rule of law according to International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law. Haqel‘s lawyers works on behalf of hundreds of landowners and tens of communities to arrange safe, sustained access to lands critical to continued land ownership and reversing land encroachment and takeover of privately-owned lands.

17.10.2023 - 11:22 [ Itach Ma`aki - Women Lawyers for Social Justice ]

Itach Ma`aki – Women Lawyers for Social Justice: About Us

Itach Ma’aki – Women Lawyers for Social Justice was established in 2001 to give voice to women subject to social, geographic, national, ethnic and economic discrimination in Israeli society.

The Association’s vision is that Israeli law will reflect the unique perspectives of women from all social groups and ensure that they are able to fully exercise their rights.

12.09.2023 - 14:44 [ Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي / Twitter ]

Private attorney Ilan Bombach, on behalf of the government, attacks the Israeli Declaration of Independence. „37 people unelected people will handcuff the hands of all others? The Declaration of Independence is a very important founding text but has no legal status.“

18.06.2023 - 13:46 [ Haaretz ]

Israelis Rally for Democracy for 24th Week in a Row Amid Judicial Overhaul Talks Blowup

Lapid made an appearance at the Tel Aviv protest on Saturday night. At Kaplan Street, a demonstrator yelled at him, „No negotiations!“ To which he responded, „We‘re not there.“ Although he and Gantz have agreed to delay the negotiations with the coalition, protesters are demanding that they shelve them completely.

Former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni also gave a speech at that rally, saying that the government is „already advancing fascist decisions and legislation that will change the face of Israel forever. Decisions and legislation that erase democracy, bring about religious supremacy over secular people, Jewish supremacy over Arabs and messianic supremacy over judges.“

12.05.2023 - 00:21 [ Ihtisham Ul Haq / Nitter ]

Imran Khan’s lawyers.

(May 9, 2023)

29.01.2023 - 20:32 [ Bert Walther / Nitter ]

Schlapphüte offen für neue Technologien…

19.12.2022 - 02:48 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Palestinian Lawyer Salah Hamouri is to be Deported to France on Sunday

(01.12.2022)

Hamouri, a lawyer and a field researcher with the Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, spent more than eight years in Israeli prisons, starting when he was abducted in 2001 and was sentenced to five months in prison. In 2004 he spent four months under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges, then was abducted again in the year 2005 and was imprisoned for seven years, and then in the year 2017, he was abducted yet another time and spent 13 months under Administrative Detention orders, and upon his release, he received an order barring him from entering the rest of the West Bank for two years.

On June 6, 2022, Salah received another three-month Administrative Detention order just hours before his scheduled release after being imprisoned for three months under a similar order. The decision to revoke his residency was made in October of last year, 2021, after accusing him of “breeching loyalty to the state” for his human rights and legal work in defending Palestinian political prisoners.

Hamouri was born to a Palestinian father from Jerusalem where he grew up and lived, and his mother is a French national. Several years earlier, Israel deported his French wife, Elsa Lefort, to her country after detaining her at the airport in Tel Aviv for three days when she returned to Jerusalem. The lawyer and his wife have two children.

Palestinians born in occupied Jerusalem are only granted “residency status” and not citizenship of Israel despite Israel’s constant claims of “unified Jerusalem as its capital.”

19.12.2022 - 02:41 [ Haaretz ]

France Condemns Israel’s Deportation of Palestinian Jerusalemite Lawyer to France

France condemned Israel’s decision to deport Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri, who holds French citizenship, on Sunday morning by order of Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, following a years-long effort by Israeli authorities to revoke his residency status.

“Today, we condemn the illegal decision of the Israeli authorities to deport Mr. Salah Hammouri to France,” the statement read.

03.12.2022 - 17:23 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Palestinian Lawyer Salah Hamouri is to be Deported to France on Sunday

Hamouri, a lawyer and a field researcher with the Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, spent more than eight years in Israeli prisons, starting when he was abducted in 2001 and was sentenced to five months in prison. In 2004 he spent four months under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges, then was abducted again in the year 2005 and was imprisoned for seven years, and then in the year 2017, he was abducted yet another time and spent 13 months under Administrative Detention orders, and upon his release, he received an order barring him from entering the rest of the West Bank for two years.

On June 6, 2022, Salah received another three-month Administrative Detention order just hours before his scheduled release after being imprisoned for three months under a similar order. The decision to revoke his residency was made in October of last year, 2021, after accusing him of “breeching loyalty to the state” for his human rights and legal work in defending Palestinian political prisoners.

Hamouri was born to a Palestinian father from Jerusalem where he grew up and lived, and his mother is a French national. Several years earlier, Israel deported his French wife, Elsa Lefort, to her country after detaining her at the airport in Tel Aviv for three days when she returned to Jerusalem. The lawyer and his wife have two children.

Palestinians born in occupied Jerusalem are only granted “residency status” and not citizenship of Israel despite Israel’s constant claims of “unified Jerusalem as its capital.”

08.10.2022 - 07:32 [ ORF.at ]

Nach Amoklauf: Gesamte Polizei im Schulbezirk Uvalde beurlaubt

„Der Bezirk hat die Entscheidung getroffen, alle Aktivitäten der für den Schulbezirk Uvalde zuständigen Polizei für eine gewisse Zeit auszusetzen. Die derzeit beschäftigten Beamten werden andere Aufgaben im Bezirk übernehmen“, hieß es in einer vom Schulbezirk veröffentlichten Mitteilung. Ende August war der umstrittene Polizeichef des Schulbezirks entlassen worden.

08.10.2022 - 07:12 [ CNN ]

Uvalde school district suspends its police force, 2 school officials placed on administrative leave after CNN report

“Our children have been taken from us. We will not stop fighting until we have answers and we ensure the safety of the children in our community is the top priority,” said a statement from representatives for families of district students.

19.08.2022 - 22:30 [ Axios.com ]

CIA sued over alleged spying on journalists, lawyers over Assange visit

Why it matters: The suit argues the agency violated their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.

The big picture: The four plaintiffs, all U.S. citizens, are comprised of two journalists, Charles Glass and John Goetz, and two lawyers, Margaret Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, who used to represent Assange, according to Reuters.

19.08.2022 - 08:41 [ Bastian Barucker / Nitter ]

Beide Impfpflicht-Entscheidungen sowie die „Bundesnotbremse“-Entscheidungen signalisieren letztlich: freie Fahrt für den immer paternalistischer werdenden Staat. …es zeichnet sich ab, dass der Staat schalten und walten kann, wie er möchte.“@jeha2019

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-verantwortung/interview-juristin-jessica-hamed-impfpflicht-karlsruhe-laesst-dem-staat-voellig-freie-hand-li.257961

02.08.2022 - 15:35 [ DefenseOne.com ]

House’s ‘Irregular Warfare’ Provision Risks Unintended War

Under both 127e and 1202, the use of proxy forces must support “authorized” U.S. military operations. The Defense Department has cited two sources of authority for engaging in combat through and with 127e proxies: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF—the authority for the United States’s endless “war on terror”—and the president’s constitutional prerogative to engage in “self-defense,” defined expansively by executive branch lawyers.

The Defense Department could cite similar authorities for the use of 1202 proxies. Although no AUMF was designed to counter Iran, North Korea, Russia, or China, the executive branch believes it has the authority to engage these countries militarily.

14.07.2022 - 18:05 [ Multipolar Magazin ]

„Heute gilt nur die gesichtslose Konformität“

Christ: Vor allem stört mich, dass die Gerichte ihre ureigenste Aufgabe, einen Sachverhalt vollständig und detailgetreu zu ermitteln und darauf aufbauend die Voraussetzungen einer Sachlage zu überprüfen, nicht mehr erfüllt haben. Sie haben fast durchweg nur noch wiedergegeben, was ihnen die Politik zuvor mundgerecht vorgelegt hatte. Das RKI wurde zitiert, und gleichzeitig wurden alle hiervor abweichenden Meinungen ignoriert. Dem RKI wurde ein geradezu allmächtiger Status zugewiesen. Was von dort kam, galt – und gilt – als gesetzt, niemand darf das anzweifeln.

10.07.2022 - 17:54 [ NewsFirst.lk ]

What happens after the President resigns? BASL explains process to elect new President

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka convening a special press conference on Sunday (10) afternoon elaborated on the process that should be followed by the President, and the Prime Minister in vacating their posts.

BASL President Saliya Pieris, PC told reporters that in terms of the constitution, the President must address to speaker a letter signed by him of his decision to step down, and when the position is vacant the Prime Minister would take over as acting President.

12.06.2022 - 06:09 [ DoughtyStreet.co.uk ]

Journalists’ Associations and Palestinian Rights Group to submit new complaint to International Criminal Court regarding killing of Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and shooting of Ali Samoudi

(26.05.2022)

The Group’s April 2022 complaint details the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists on behalf of four named victims – Ahmed Abu Hussein, Yaser Murtaja, Muath Amarneh and Nedal Eshtayeh – who were also killed or maimed by Israeli snipers while covering demonstrations in Gaza. All were wearing clearly marked PRESS vests at the time they were shot. The complaint also details the targeting of media infrastructure including the bombing of the Al-Shorouk and Al-Jawhara Towers in Gaza City in May 2021.

The full Press Release is available here.

Jennifer Robinson and Tatyana Eatwell act as Legal Counsel for the group.

12.06.2022 - 05:33 [ Jen Robinson / Nitter.net ]

In 2016, I took legal action against the UK with @privacyint over surveillance & information sharing with the US – given my work as lawyer for #Assange & @wikileaks UK admits violation of Art 8 & Art 10 (confidential journalistic material)

(09.06.2022)

Robinson v UK

12.06.2022 - 05:29 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Julian Assange‘s Australian lawyer who counts Amal Clooney and Amber Heard as friends says she has reached settlement with government ‚over breach of her human rights after it admitted she was likely put under covert surveillance‘

She said: ‚The UK Government has now admitted that its surveillance and information-sharing arrangements with the US violated my rights. That includes in relation to the protection of confidential journalistic material.

‚This follows a pattern of unlawful spying on Julian Assange and his legal team, and it raises grave concerns about government interference with journalistic material and privilege.

‚It also raises serious questions about what information the UK and US governments have been sharing about Mr Assange‘s case against extradition to the US.‘