Assange to gaol, as Wikileaks reveals Burma’s nukes
Cables released by WikiLeaks Thursday showed Washington has suspected for years that Myanmar has a secret nuclear programme supported by North Korea, with witnesses reporting suspicious activity dating back to 2004.
WikiLeaks’ Assange moved to isolation in British jail, Google hosted news, By Guy Jackson (AFP) – 11 Dec 10, LONDON — Police moved WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to the segregation unit of a London jail for his safety, a lawyer said Friday as new cables showed the US suspects Myanmar has a secret nuclear programme……
Robinson complained that Assange “does not get any recreation” in the prison and “has difficulties getting phone calls out… he is on his own.”
The former computer hacker is not allowed to have a laptop in his cell, but his lawyers have requested one.
“We are trying to prepare a legal appeal and he has difficulties hand writing, so it would be much easier in order to assist us in the preparation if he had a laptop,” Robinson said, without explaining why he had difficulty writing.
Assange is in “very good” spirits but “frustrated” that he cannot answer the allegations that WikiLeaks was behind cyber attacks launched on credit card firms which have refused to do business with the website.
“He told me he is absolutely not involved and this is a deliberate attempt to conflate WikiLeaks, which is a publishing organisation, with hacking organisations which are not,” she said…………
Assange’s lawyer however denied reports that his legal team believe a US indictment over WikiLeaks is imminent.
But she added: “Our position is that any prosecution under the espionage act would be unconstitutional and call into question First Amendment protections for all media organisations.”
Assange’s mother said she was worried for her son because “massive forces” were ranged against him………….
Cables released by WikiLeaks Thursday showed Washington has suspected for years that Myanmar has a secret nuclear programme supported by North Korea, with witnesses reporting suspicious activity dating back to 2004.
One cable from the US embassy in Yangon quoted an unidentified source as saying he saw about 300 North Koreans working at an underground site……
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