{"id":365072,"date":"2018-06-12T00:48:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/press-conference-to-be-held-in-sydney-ahead-of-rallies-in-defence-of-assange\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:48:18","slug":"press-conference-to-be-held-in-sydney-ahead-of-rallies-in-defence-of-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/press-conference-to-be-held-in-sydney-ahead-of-rallies-in-defence-of-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Press conference to be held in Sydney ahead of rallies in defence of Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Press conference to be held in Sydney ahead of rallies in defence of Assange<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>11 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><em>The following release has been issued by the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), notifying the media of a press conference in Sydney on Wednesday, June 13.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE: TURNBULL GOVERNMENT IS OBLIGATED TO PROTECT JOURNALIST AND AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN JULIAN ASSANGE<\/h4>\n<p>June 11, 2018<\/p>\n<p>The Turnbull government must act now to secure WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange\u2019s right to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London and return to Australia, with guaranteed protection from extradition to the US.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/05\/29\/assa-m29.html\">demonstration<\/a> will be held on Sunday, June 17 at 1:00 p.m. in Sydney Town Hall Square. Journalist John Pilger and Socialist Equality Party (SEP) national secretary James Cogan will demand that the Australian government meet its obligations to protect Assange, as it did for <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> journalist Peter Greste.<\/p>\n<p>James Cogan will be available at a press conference on Wednesday, June 13, at 11:00 a.m. in central Sydney, to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>On December 15, 2010, Australian media editors and journalists issued a statement condemning US threats to charge Assange and WikiLeaks as \u201ca serious threat to democracy,\u201d which \u201crelies on a free and fearless press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 23, 2012, the ABC\u2019s \u201cFour Corners\u201d broadcast a damning exposure of the politically motivated character of a Swedish investigation into allegations that Assange had committed sexual offences.<\/p>\n<p>Assange sought political asylum with Ecuador on June 19, 2012, under conditions where the Australian government failed to protect him.<\/p>\n<p>Assange now faces the greatest danger. His health has been deeply compromised after six years of what the UN has labelled \u201carbitrary detention.\u201d On March 28, his right to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/11\/pres-j11.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Press conference to be held in Sydney ahead of rallies in defence of Assange By our reporters 11 June 2018 The following release has been issued by the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), notifying the media of a press conference in Sydney on Wednesday, June 13. NOTICE OF PRESS CONFERENCE: TURNBULL GOVERNMENT IS OBLIGATED TO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}