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<\/a><\/p>\nThe first week of the Julian Assange extradition trial has concluded<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, to be resumed on May 18th. If you haven\u2019t been following the proceedings closely, let me sum up what you missed:<\/span><\/p>\n The prosecution is working to extradite Assange to the US under a US-UK extradition treaty, a treaty whose contents the prosecution now says we should ignore because they explicitly forbid political extraditions. The prosecution says it doesn\u2019t matter anyway because Assange is not a political actor, yet in 2010 the US government that\u2019s trying to extradite him labeled him a political actor in those exact words. Assange\u2019s trial is taking place in a maximum security prison for dangerous violent offenders because that\u2019s where he\u2019s being jailed for no stated reason and despite having no history of violence, which means he\u2019s kept separate from the courtroom in a sound-resistant safety enclosure where he can\u2019t hear or participate in his own trial. The magistrate judging the case says he can\u2019t be allowed out of the enclosure since he\u2019s considered dangerous, because he\u2019s been arbitrarily placed in a prison for dangerous violent offenders. The magistrate keeps telling Assange to stop speaking up during his trial and to speak through his lawyers, yet he\u2019s being actively prevented from communicating with his lawyers.<\/span><\/p>\n Make sense?<\/span><\/p>\n No?<\/span><\/p>\n Not even a tiny bit?<\/span><\/p>\n Oh. Okay. Let me explain.<\/span><\/p>\n A British human rights and law reform organisation found that keeping a defendant locked in a sound-resistant glass cage apart from the courtroom, as they're doing to Assange currently, necessarily breaches their right to a fair trial. https:\/\/t.co\/FG61rIu1ur<\/a><\/p>\n — Caitlin Johnstone \u23f3 (@caitoz) February 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n