{"id":115,"date":"2020-08-15T08:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T06:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monika-karbowska-liberte-pour-julian-assange.ovh\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-10-02T01:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:48:40","slug":"hearing-of-julian-assange-on-14-august-westminster-court-turns-into-kindergarten-nursery-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monika-karbowska-liberte-pour-julian-assange.ovh\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Hearing of Julian Assange on 14 August – Westminster Court turns into \u00ab\u00a0Kindergarten\u00a0\u00bb (nursery school)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monika Karbowska<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Translation with Deepl. translator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I travelled across the\nChannel to attend Julian Assange’s Final administrative hearing at the\nWestminster Magistrate Court on Thursday 13 August, the day after the\nannouncement of the launch of Sputnik 5, Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, full of\nhope that this step could help people out of the terrible crisis we have been\nin for the past five months. My ticket had been ready for several weeks and I\nkept hope that we could win this struggle, the one for HIS freedom and for OUR\nfreedom, since the crisis is a permanent war, a war of leaders against their\npeople and a \u00ab\u00a0west against east\u00a0\u00bb war since the American military\nstate and its Baltic and Polish henchmen openly attack Belarus by sending\nfascist militants to foment riots there. During the trip I remained mobilized,\nspreading on social networks the truth about the so-called \u00ab\u00a0Polish\njournalists arrested by Lukashenko\u00a0\u00bb supported by the European Federation\nof Journalists, when in reality they are two dangerous neo-Nazi activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Westminster Magistrate Court and the Church Army building old Queens Charlotte Maternity Hostpital <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I did not learn the news\nof the quarantine imposed on the French by Great Britain until the evening of\nmy arrival in London. This news surprised me: until now the government of Boris\nJohnson was involved in the global storytelling about the coronavirus, but in\nreality it does not terrorize the British as the macronist mafia does the\nFrench people. In fact, I had prepared in advance the certificate theoretically\nnecessary for entry into the British territory, with address of residence and\ncontact details of a third party in case I gave the coronavirus to someone and\nrefused to answer my own phone… And here in Calais, the English border police\ndoes not ask for the certificate! The bus driver confirmed to me that for 10\ndays of daily travel this \u00ab\u00a0covidian\u00a0\u00bb attestation has never been\nrequired. He was very kind to us and went to great lengths to get us to open\nthe toilets at the stops and hand out bottles of water on the Eurotunnel train.\nIndeed, the coronavirus was used as a good excuse to close the toilets and the\nair conditioning in the transport, which at 45 degrees outside generates stress\nand discomfort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather in London is\nsuperb and cool. The Paddington district close to Westminster Court is slowly\ncoming alive since the hotels have almost all reopened since August 1st and the\ntourists, first of all English-speaking, are coming back. Business obliges, the\nmanagers are all very friendly and the prices very affordable. The masks are\nalmost non-existent and as I walk under the big trees in the neighborhood I\nfeel liberated from the intense collective psychosis in which we are so\nimmersed in France that we no longer realize it. It is only at the restaurant\nthat the corona reminds me of it in the form of a large register kept by the\nwaitress where her name and telephone number must be written down – but the\nBritish have more confidence in their government than we have in ours and they\nare not afraid of being found by the authorities, accused of having\n\u00ab\u00a0infected\u00a0\u00bb someone or exterminated in a hospital. Similarly, in\nanother pub, a signposted route imposed on the consumer so that they do not mix\nwith others also reminds me that absurdity also exists on this side of the\nChannel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Prudential Building rented to the Westminster Magistrate and to the Probation Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The announcement of the\nquarantine irritates me because it jeopardises our ability to come to Julian\nAssange’s trial on 7 September. The measure is clearly a pressure on the French\neconomy, with English tourists bringing in a significant amount of money to the\neconomies of many regions. Like everything else in this crisis where decision-makers\nare so concerned about human health, all decisions taken in the name of health\nhave real political reasons. In other words, since Putin called Macron\nimmediately the very same day to offer him his vaccine and to incite him to put\nan end to the Covidian hysteria, are the British putting pressure on France in\nthese negotiations from which the people are excluded, even though their place\nin the Western world has been at stake since they got rid of the European\nCommission’s tutelage? I remain hopeful that these negotiations will lead to a\ncompromise and that the border can be opened to us again by 7 September. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arrive in front of the\nWestminster Court early in the morning so I’m the first one at the door.\nShortly after arrives an Australian activist with a large banner of support for\nJulian Assange. We talk at length about the health terror that is being perpetuated\nin our countries by governments more concerned with privatizing health systems\nthan with caring for the sick. She tells me about the latest liberticidal\ndiscoveries of a West in full fascist temptation: the New Zealand law allowing\nthe confinement in special camps of those \u00ab\u00a0infected\u00a0\u00bb by the\ncoronavirus, the Australian law allowing the police in Melbourne to enter homes\nwithout a court order for \u00ab\u00a0sanitary\u00a0\u00bb inspections and especially the\nEnglish law that provides for the immediate removal from parents of children\nwho, duly tested, would have fever at school! She is all the more horrified as\nan environmental activist because it is the left-wing government of the State\nof Victoria that proudly imposes tyrannical measures against terrified\ncitizens. But she also assures me that a certain revolt is rising in this very\nfragmented British society and that the demonstration against the compulsory\nmask had finally joined the activists who on the same day organised an action\nin support of Julian Assange in front of 10 Downing Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 7 a.m. a French\nactivist whom I know arrived, then a German activist with whom I sympathized.\nWe discuss the situation in France and Europe, and in particular the way out of\nthe crisis that the Russian vaccine maneuver represents. The queue forms around\n8 a.m. with a dozen of the usual activists, we all know each other. Since the\ndesire of some to make lists and decide who comes in and who doesn’t has faded,\nthe atmosphere is much more friendly and cordial. Among the public personalities\nI see Fidel Narvaez but nobody else. However, rumours are circulating that the\n\u00ab\u00a0social distancing\u00a0\u00bb has been hardened to leave only 5 places for the\npublic. The fight will take place again, this time with the Court… We go back\nhome at 9 o’clock, the building is completely deserted except for the security\nguards. A ghost courtyard. We don’t know if it’s because of the corona-crisis,\nsince the British government had already tended to push justice to exist only\nby video and telephone, or is it because in reality, apart from the extradition\nof Julian Assange and the Eastern Europeans, this court only deals with minor\ncannabis use offences or neighbourhood disputes. This building, built in 2011,\nis therefore permanently empty and would therefore never really have been used\nfor justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are the hearings of\nextradited Eastern Europeans taking place \u00ab\u00a0online\u00a0\u00bb as announced by\nthe poster on the door on 27 July? This announcement has disappeared, in the\nqueue, the lawyers of the other cases are few. The secretariat of the court\nseems to be closed and as on July 27th there will be no more list of names\nposted on the doors of the rooms. However in the entrance hall several lists of\njudges are present. The name of Julian Assange appears on a small sheet of paper\npinned on the list of cases judged in room 3. Opposite his name is a schedule:\n3:30 pm. Ouch, if we have to wait that long, I’m not happy about it. But as we\nknow that nothing is done here according to the rules, we have to stay. Three\nof us activists rush to the secretarial desk where only one employee has taken\noff her cumbersome mask behind her glass wall: she tells us to stay, there will\nbe changes. We stand in front of the door in single file and talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water flows from a neon\nlight on the ceiling. Security guards have installed a rubalise and are trying\nto control the leak in the middle of the waiting room. They call in two\ncleaning workers, Eastern Europeans, who have to mop up the water with a cloth\nat the end of a long pole, without any safety equipment, even though they can\nelectrocute themselves… Here, I notice that one of the security guards we\nknow is wearing a blue badge instead of Mitye’s orange badges. He confirms:\nyes, Mitie did lose the court deal<\/strong>, he was lucky enough to be taken over\nby the new company, OSE, and he is happy to keep a job close to his home. It is\ntrue that Mitye had committed some abuses here in front of us and against us\nand maybe even against Julian Assange, whom we saw terrorized while they were\nin charge of his custody. We are still waiting until 10 o’clock. Little by\nlittle the situation is becoming clearer: the Eastern Europeans are gathering\nin front of Room 1 and Room 3 will be entirely devoted to Julian Assange.\nFlorence Iveson, the new lawyer who replaced Hamilton Fitzgerald, is busy with\nAlistar Lyon and Gareth Peirce’s assistant between the consultation room, the\nsecretariat and the still closed courtroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After 10 o’clock, the\nhearing still hasn’t started, and a certain nervousness sets in. The\njournalists who have arrived for Julian, Juan Passerelli, Mohamed El Maazi, a\nwoman and two men I don’t know are sitting on the waiting room armchairs\nconfident that they will be able to go home. That’s not our case, we’re worried\nabout having to stand here all day. Shortly after the court clerk, a woman I’ve\nseen several times, still immersed in her computer, comes out of the courtroom\nwith a deeply annoyed face of someone who is being assigned a task that is not\nhers. Finding myself nearby, I hear Florence Iveson asking for a delay because\nBelmarsh is not responding to the lawyers’ requests.  The clerk finally responds that perhaps they\ncan talk to him in the room once the video connection is established. But the\nlawyers have to manage to get their clients to appear, and the court makes no\neffort to do its job… Yet another galling indication that all these\nmalfunctions show a world of false pretenses. Finally at 10:30 am we are still\nstanding in front of the door, while Iveson and the two collaborators of Peirce\nand Birnberg lock themselves in the room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then John Shipton and\nStella Morris enter the waiting room. John Shipton greets us kindly and then\nexchanges with the journalists. It is a question of who is going to give him\nhis precious place, which I cannot do given the efforts I am making to be here.\nBut I have a feeling that, like the Woolwich Court, it won’t be necessary.\nNevertheless, when the clerk comes out at 10.45 a.m. and announces that because\nof the \u00ab\u00a0social distancing\u00a0\u00bb only journalists will be allowed in and no\none else, the emotion is high. Someone still says that we have been here since\n6 a.m. She brings in the journalists, who are five in all. That’s when John\nShipton walks towards her, Stella Morris behind him. He says, \u00ab\u00a0I’m Julian\nAssange’s father and she’s his partner\u00a0\u00bb. And I, who’s always at the front\nof the line, say \u00ab\u00a0and I represent a human rights association\u00a0\u00bb. The\nwoman looks at me with hostility and shouts \u00ab\u00a0I’m not talking to\nyou\u00a0\u00bb!<\/strong> I’m taken aback because I didn’t say anything aggressive. We\ncould have announced that we are Julian Assange’s \u00ab\u00a0French family\u00a0\u00bb,\nthe one John Shipton spoke about on April 18, 2020, but it is not our style to\nlie. What could be more natural in a democratic country than the presence of a\nhuman rights association to monitor respect for rights! We do not need to\njustify being there! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the clerk tells me to\nstep back to respect the \u00ab\u00a0social distancing\u00a0\u00bb. I do this with\ndifficulty because the line is pushing me behind my back and the activists are\nas upset as I am. I point out to her that at least I am wearing a mask, a\nutensil that visibly gives me more legitimacy today than the evocation of Human\nRights… The clerk remarks \u00ab\u00a0I have to manage this situation\u00a0\u00bb which\nis not easy objectively. We wait silently. Finally, she brings in John Shipton\nand Stella Morris. I can enter in my turn and I quickly push the door of the\npublic box without turning around. Three other activists can enter, one French,\none German and one British – the whole of (Western) Europe is there to at least\nsymbolically support Julian Assange. I’m sitting in the last seat in the front\nrow. With two of the three chairs condemned, John Shipton is on my right,\nStella Morris at the back of the row, the other activists behind. I find myself\nin a good position to see Julian Assange on the two video screens on either\nside of the room and I’m sitting right in line opposite Vanessa Baraister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vanessa Baraitser, real judge or employee of the Prudential owner? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Baraitser is already\nthere and staring at us. And above all, Julian Assange is also there in the\nvideo.<\/strong> He’s sitting in this box with dark blue walls on red seats that look\nlike a waiting room. The room is different from the one on July 27th and\ndifferently filmed. Whereas on July 27th the camera was filming him up close\nacross the street, cutting him at the waist, here it is located on top of a\nwall, which is reminiscent of a surveillance camera, and you can see it in its\nentirety. The set is the one of the productions of last December and January.\nThere is a door on the right, a small window overlooking the corridor and an\nindecipherable sign above her head. Julian Assange is sitting with his hands\nclasped in his lap, his right leg crossed over his left leg. He is wearing the\nsame beige sweater and white shirt as last time, slightly too short grey\ntrousers and white socks. He has short hair and no beard, or a very short\nbeard, no glasses and a sad and resigned look that I saw especially last\nNovember and December. As then he looks bad, prostrate. He doesn’t move and\ndoesn’t change position for an hour and a quarter. Sometimes he leans to the side\nas if he were the victim of a malaise and keeps his eyes down. He does not\nparticipate in the show, either because he is unwell or because he refuses to\nbail. He frequently has a dry cough, which resembles asthma, and then brings\nhis hands to his face. I am concerned and saddened to see him like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He looks cold in this\nsweater, while the guards are all in white short-sleeved shirts and black\npants. And guards there are! The prison video suddenly pulsates, even if these\nuniforms are rather reminiscent of those of private security guards and not the\nblack uniforms already seen in such circumstances. First there are two men, one\nwhite and one black, looking at Assange as they stand in the doorway. Then there\nare women joining them. It goes down the hallway, and the hubbub is audible all\nthe way down here. Julian Assange remains impassive but the pressure on him is\nvisible. On July 27th the staff of \u00ab\u00a0Belmarsh\u00a0\u00bb were dressed as nurses\nin blue and green scrubs. Apparently Julian Assange has changed location again,\nbut we still don’t know exactly where he is. We still don’t know if he receives\nour mail and if not why and why he can’t answer it . <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the room chaos floats\nin the air. Vanessa Baraitser has her nose in a file, silent. Lawyer Florence\nIveson is in and out, for some reason. Julian Assange is absent, prostrate. The\nnoise gets louder: the guards are talking, and every time someone enters or\nleaves the famous conference call a metallic voice \u00ab\u00a0left the\nconference\u00a0\u00bb is heard. It REALLY doesn’t sound serious<\/strong>. Really\n\u00ab\u00a0Kindergarten\u00a0\u00bb,<\/strong> as I confide to my German colleague. Like a\nkindergarten, a nusery, when the life of a man in prison is at stake. You pinch\nyourself to believe it. At one point Baraitser raises his head, asks\n\u00ab\u00a0Officer, Wandsworth\u00a0\u00bb, and then catches up with \u00ab\u00a0Belmarsh\u00a0\u00bb,\nand asks him to be quiet because we can’t hear anything in our room! A guard\narrives and sits down in front of Julian, we see him clearly crossing the box\nand then disappearing from our field of vision. Permanent surveillance, how Assange\ncould freely express himself in court with such pressure on him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, at 10:55 am\nJulian Assange coughs, then nods his head and bites his cheeks, seems older.\nBaraister then decides to open the trial and asks him to present his name\n\u00ab\u00a0formally identified\u00a0\u00bb. I can hear his voice through the loudspeaker.\nIt is hesitant, stumbling over every syllable, every word is interspersed with\nsilence, like in December 2019 when he was at his worst. Is he under\npsychological pressure, physical torture, medication? His date of birth,\n\u00ab\u00a03 July 71\u00a0\u00bb he pronounces it as if he doesn’t believe in this\nidentity as uncertain as his voice is here. The chaos continues: Baraitser\ngives the floor to Claire Dobbin through the \u00ab\u00a0conference call\u00a0\u00bb. We\nhear the beginning of a sentence uttered by Dobbin, then nothing more.\nBaraitser then gives the floor to Florence Iveson, who forces the tone so that\nDobbin can hear through the machine. For once I can hear correctly what the\ndefence is saying. Florence Iveson seems uncomfortable and after 15 minutes her\ncheeks are red, she turns around frequently to consult Alistar Lyon sitting\nbehind her. Julian Assange is coughing more and more, his shoulders are tucked\nin, sometimes he just moves his fingers. The guard who controls him also moves\nand then you can see him on the screen. Baraitser tries to get Dobbin to repeat\nhis sentence, then throws in the towel and calls a technician to repair the\nequipment. A young man arrives and we wait another fifteen minutes without\nmoving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This example clearly\nshows that telephone justice, like telephone medicine, cannot work<\/strong>.\nThere is no prosecutor, how can a hearing take place? The conditions not being\nmet for a fair trial, in a normal country the judge would have immediately sent\neveryone home and set another date that was binding for everyone without trying\nto reconcile agendas! But the question has been asking itself for some time\nnow: Is Vanessa Baraitser really a judge? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 11:15 Claire Dobbin\ncan finally talk on her phone. She says she didn’t know that the hearing was\nset for 10 o’clock. Baraister preaches to her like a little girl on the subject\nthat she had actually set the date on July 27th. It’s so surreal that it feels\neven more like a theatre rehearsal in a kindergarten with people playing a\nrole. A certain Smith stands behind Dobbin and tries to justify himself by the\nlists announcing 3.30 pm. I can hear Clair Dobbin because the sound is very\nloud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florence Iveson begins\nher speech with the new accusation whose documents would have arrived the same\nday. She points out that the defense did not have time to read the 43 pages and\nthat it is \u00ab\u00a0astonishing\u00a0\u00bb that a new \u00ab\u00a0request\u00a0\u00bb has been made\nbecause it considerably expands the first one. According to her, Krombach did\nnot send the document in time and argues that the sheer size of the file makes\nit impossible to meet the September 7 trial date with a \u00ab\u00a0pragmatic\napproach\u00a0\u00bb. She also argues that the notion of \u00ab\u00a0narrative\nbackground\u00a0\u00bb should not be excluded from the file. The new file should have\nbeen presented at an \u00ab\u00a0early stage\u00a0\u00bb. \nI don’t quite understand where she is going with this, what is the\n\u00ab\u00a0narrative background\u00a0\u00bb – (the political history?) that would not be\nhighlighted? Nor do I understand why Prosecutor Gordon Krombach should have\nhanded over the file when he is only one of the seven \u00ab\u00a0assistant United\nState Attorneys\u00a0\u00bb listed at the bottom of the indictment signed by G.\nZachary Terwilliger, Unit States Attorney, on June 24 (1). It will be necessary\nto look into the complicated functioning of the American institutions and their\nlinks with the 2003 bilateral extradition treaty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am perplexed by the\ndate of 21 December, which I hear without understanding the precise context.\nWhat I understand is that it is asking for additional time to process these\ndocuments and because this request initiates a new process (\u00ab\u00a0new\nconduct\u00a0\u00bb). It would even seem to us that a new charge should give rise to\nanother separate procedure that should be separate from this one and should\nfirst go through the diplomatic channel before becoming official. Baraitser\nthen asks her to illustrate her words with \u00ab\u00a0new conduct\u00a0\u00bb. I do not\nunderstand her answer, which is very brief. Julian Assange is even more\nimmobile and prostrate. Then Ms. Dobbin has the floor. She cites Krombach and\nparagraph 9 of the Grand Jury’s decision that the United States is continuing\nits \u00ab\u00a0criminal investigation\u00a0\u00bb against Mr Assange and that the\nprosecutor is continuing his \u00ab\u00a0criminal\u00a0\u00bb investigation. She repeats\nthat it is certainly not for this \u00ab\u00a0substitute\u00a0\u00bb charge that he has\nbeen \u00ab\u00a0charged\u00a0\u00bb  that is not\nimportant since in any case the procedure will be \u00ab\u00a0enlarged\u00a0\u00bb.\nAccording to the procedure, Mr. Assange is a hacker and this is the real\nbackground of the extradition request. While she is talking, the guards move\nfrom their seats, a woman opens the door of the box, there is noise and I can\nno longer hear the details of what is being said. I have the impression that\nJulian Assange hears nothing and doesn’t understand it either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florence Iveson replied\nthat according to paragraph 9, the ongoing investigation, the evidence given\nrelates only to the charges for 2010 and not to the \u00ab\u00a0superseding\ncharges\u00a0\u00bb. These are the Jabber Messenger conversations between Chelsea\nManning and Julian Assange, which the prosecution has always made a big deal of\nin these documents, but never, in my view, was in a position to produce them\npublicly. Yet at the February trial, Room 2 of the Woolwich Court was equipped\nwith a gigantic screen on which it was possible to show the famous Jabber\nmessaging protocols proving the Manning-Assange conversations. I attended all 4\ndays of the trial and saw nothing like it. It should also be remembered that\nthe Jabber messaging system was developed by the German Wau Holland Foundation,\nthe same foundation that from 2009 to 2014 produced and directed the Wikileaks\nproject 04 \u00ab\u00a0Defending Freedom of Information\u00a0\u00bb and for which Assange\nwas project manager (Projektleiter) in 2011 and 2012, according to the\nfoundation’s public activity reports (2). Jabber was supposed to be a\ntamper-proof encrypted e-mail… Julian Assange trusted the Germans twice as\nmuch as he did, as director of their \u00ab\u00a0Wikileaks\u00a0\u00bb project and as a\nuser of their Jabber product… and that was fatal to him. In the room, the\nmanagers of Wau Holland, including \u00ab\u00a0friend\u00a0\u00bb Andy M\u00fcller Maguhn, are\nconspicuous by their absence…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once Florence Iveson has\nrepeated her request for more time, Baraitser sums up her position like a\nteacher facing her pupil: the old request is not cancelled by the new one. The\ndefence needs more time. The \u00ab\u00a0narrative background\u00a0\u00bb has been ignored\nand the \u00ab\u00a0case management hearing\u00a0\u00bb cannot decide which evidence is\nadmissible. She announced that she was in favour of giving the defence more\ntime to work on its arguments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julian Assange on video in a kind of waiting room of hospital (?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I look at her closely and\nthen something happens. I see this woman’s face like it lights up and gets\nrounder. She is right in front of me, not far away after all. She looks rejuvenated.\nMy eyes are exactly in line with hers, which then take on a beautiful light\ngreen hue. She keeps talking, then looks down at her text. She reads her text\nclearly, more and more mechanically, as if it had been written in advance, or\nby someone else, like a script for a role. She reads more and more visibly. I\nhave in front of me a woman who behaves like Svietlana Tichanouska, the\nhousewife who was the \u00ab\u00a0first opponent\u00a0\u00bb of President Lukashenko when\nshe fled her country to pro-American Lithuania last Monday after pushing\nmilitants to commit riots. She then published a video in which she read a text,\nso visibly that one cannot help thinking that she is hostage to her new\nAmerican ‘friends’ and that she wants to show it indirectly (3). I turn to my\nGerman colleague and disconcertedly ask her \u00ab\u00a0is this woman an actress?\n(Schauspielerin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Baraitser’s biography\nand the reasons for her responsibility in this case have been a mystery until\nnow<\/strong>.\nHer career as a judge seems quite mysterious as there is almost no public\ninformation about her. Her father Michael Baraitser is a white South African\nneurogeneticist of Jewish origin who came to Great Britain in the early 1970s\nand is well established in British scientific institutes (4). One of her\nsisters, Lisa Baraitser has an impressive CV as a psychologist, researcher and\nspecialist in maternity, gender, feminism and queer theories (5)! The second\nsister, Paula Baraitser has a comfortable position as a researcher in sexology\nat Kings College London, another prestigious institution (6). With such\nextensive family expertise in psychology and human sexuality, one wonders how\nVanessa Baraitser could not see that the propaganda campaign slandering Assange\nas a rapist was based on a complete vacuum, which I and some of my feminist friends\nimmediately perceived once we read  the\npublished Swedish documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is it that Vanessa\nBaraitser, from such a family, versed in psychology and armed with prestigious\ndiplomas, as a district judge, a simple prudential court judge, participates in\nsuch a shameful manipulative sketch? The key question would be \u00ab\u00a0what’s her\ninterest\u00a0\u00bb?<\/strong> Moreover, the seriousness of his activity as a judge is\ncalled into question. Indeed, we have not been able to find other traces than a\nfew cases of harassment, voyeurism and alcoholism on the public highway (!) (7)and\nin the chapter on extraditions, the curious French case of the flight of Alexandre\nDjouhri,<\/strong> bearer of Nicolas Sarkozy’s financial suitcase in 2012, which she\nreleased in February 2019 (8). A \u00ab\u00a0magistrate\u00a0\u00bb court judge may have\nbeen a lawyer, but here again there is no trace of any activity. I myself did\nnot see Baraitser judge other extradited persons before the bizarre case of a\nLatvian member of the KGB on July 27. In September and October 2019 I saw in\nthree hearings Emma Arbuthnot judge Poles locked up in the prisons of\nWandsworth or Belmarsh and decide whether or not to extradite them. I saw other\njudges trying these routine cases. Vanessa Baraitser, on the other hand,\nseems to have only the Assange case as her job and that is strange<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of her\nreading, Baraitser said to Iveson: \u00ab\u00a0You need more time. When you’re ready,\ninform the court\u00a0\u00bb.  Julian Assange’s\nlawyer then seems to panic. She turns, with a red face, to Alistar Lyon and his\ncolleague and talks about \u00ab\u00a0instructions\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0communication\ndifficulties\u00a0\u00bb. However, it does not occur to her to ask her client what he\nthinks about it, when he is right there in front of her, and normally a lawyer\nis not forbidden to address his client during the trial (I checked with the\nlawyers of the Poles). Apparently everything is done so that Julian Assange can\nNEVER speak freely in person in the presence of anyone from outside the circle.\nBaraitser helps him by setting a date, next Friday or Wednesday. Then she\naddresses Julian Assange \u00ab\u00a0the date of September 7 will be effective<\/strong>.\nYou have not been arrested on the new charges\u00a0\u00bb (of course, he is still\npresumed innocent, yes!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julian Assange raises his\nhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Baraitser asks\nIveson and Dobbin if they agree. For her, in February it was a general\nagreement, and now there is a new procedure, a new request. Does everyone\nagree? Dobbin and Iveson agree. We’re not asking Assange’s opinion. Baraitser’s\nlooking forward to getting it over with. She starts a layus on the \u00ab\u00a0global\npandemic\u00a0\u00bb (our beloved Covidian religion), proposes a \u00ab\u00a0cloud video\nplatform\u00a0\u00bb for witness depositions and gives the deadline of August 21 for\nthe list of witnesses who will come personally. The prospect of a cloud\nplatform trial is worrying. It is 11:40 a.m. Julian Assange is still coughing,\nwe activists, we feel our nervousness and our emotion rising. Baraitser, Dobbin\nand Mr. Smith are discussing whether the secretariat is available. Dobbin goes\non about the \u00ab\u00a0mental expertise, psychological report\u00a0\u00bb requested by\nprosecutor Krombach. Iveson agrees with her, but not us! Indeed, the long militant\nexperience shows that a political prisoner should never accept psychiatric\nexpertise to save his skin, because the credibility of his action will be\npermanently damaged and this will inevitably harm him. A fortiori such an\nexpertise is useless in extradition proceedings! Finally, Iveson declares that\nhe will be able to present the \u00ab\u00a0evidence\u00a0\u00bb by August 24. Dobbin also\nsummoned him to respond to Mr. Krombach’s \u00ab\u00a025 statements\u00a0\u00bb. One enters\ninto secretarial debates, who can who cannot. There is talk of a \u00ab\u00a0pre-hearing\u00a0\u00bb\nand then of a video conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Frontline Club, the place of staying of Julian Assange in 2010 – owned by the Frontline Club Charity Trust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Baraitser raises his\nvoice, I understand that the hearing of August 24 has been cancelled. She\nannounces that today was the last administrative hearing and that the physical\nappearance of \u00ab\u00a0Mr. Assange\u00a0\u00bb at the Old Bailey on September 7 at 10\na.m. is maintained. She tells him that he remains in custody and asks for an\nunderstanding. A weary, choppy voice is heard: \u00ab\u00a0I have heard some of\nyour words,\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong> says Julian Assange (I am having this sentence confirmed\nby the real English speakers to make sure I understood). In fact, he hasn’t\nheard everything that’s going on and may not be in a position to understand.\nVanessa Baraitser doesn’t care, she’s done her performance, she’s in a hurry to\nleave. The whole room respects the ceremony and stands up. Then almost everyone\nin the room has their backs turned and puts their things away. But I realize\nthat Julian Assange is still here and I’m staying, as always, until his final\ndeparture. I want to see his gait so that our doctor can assess his state of\nhealth. When the audience doesn’t really pay attention to him anymore, Julian\nAssange raises his fist! So I raise my arm and my fist too! I look at him!  Some activists will tell me, \u00ab\u00a0But he\ncan’t see you. I say, \u00ab\u00a0Maybe someone will tell him we’re here. He saw us\nin January and February. He knows we’re here… \u00bb. And then Julian Assange\nleaps up and leaves the room with a quick step<\/strong> like a man who is just\nwaiting for this opportunity to run away! I am reassured – his walk is alive\nand well, not doddering or uncertain like in winter. He wants to live and run\naway from there… When he disappears from the box, I agree to leave my seat\nand leave the room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christophe Deloire, general secretary of Reporters without Borders, 24 February 2020 in the front of the Woolwich Court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As always, I am stunned\nby what I have seen and experienced. It takes me a little time to come to my\nsenses as the activists give a voice to the door of the building. I talk to\nJohn Shipton about the political quarantine that prevents us from coming to act\nfor Julian from France. We talk about Julian’s health and conditions of\ndetention \u00ab\u00a0for 11 years\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong> and the impossibility of talking to him\nat the moment. I have to leave quickly because because because of the\nquarantine I cannot afford to lose my return ticket on the Flixbus. I have work\nto do because I am immersed in reading an important book: \u00ab\u00a0Sexus\nPoliticus\u00a0\u00bb by Christophe Deloire, General Secretary of Reporter sans\nFronti\u00e8res since 2012, who was present at the trial of Julian d’Assange on 24\nFebruary. It is really important to understand how the network of political\nelites that decides our most intimate lives works, if we want to regain power\nover ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Imperial College of London St Marys Medical School, the origin of the Covidian panic ideology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[1]\nhttps:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1289641\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. http:\/\/www.wauland.de\/media\/2009_Jahresbericht.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.wauland.de\/media\/2011_Transparenzbericht-Projekt04_de.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/tutby\/status\/1293099290349404160<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. https:\/\/therealslog.com\/2020\/03\/03\/extradition-showtrial-julian-assange-is-a-curates-egg-but-magistrate-vanessa-baraitser-is-a-rotten-apple-from-central-barrel-casting\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/author\/michael-baraitser\/57524<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/psychosocial\/our-staff\/academic\/lisa-baraitser<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/fellow\/paula-baraitser<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6516565\/London-barrister-Aisha-Bijlani-court-allegedly-harrassing-city-lawyer-colleague.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6607417\/Ministry-Justice-adviser-52-punched-paramedic-road-spared-jail.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-guilty-of-upskirting-photos-spared-jail-after-losing-job-and-having-mental-health-issues-11713948<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-london-48716898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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