172. Stella Assange: Wikileaks founder, journalist Julian Assange & his entrapment by the British state and continuing imprisonment at HMP Belmarsh

Stella Assange  is a lawyer and human rights defender. Throughout her career, she has been an international advocate for human rights, most prominently in the case of her husband. We are really pleased to welcome Stella to our podcast . Stella is a human rights lawyer who was born in South Africa and she's the wife of Julian Assange who's the founder of WikiLeaks and a prisoner at HMP Belmarsh and Stella and Julian have two children. Julian Assange is held in the high security Belmarsh prison with the expectation that he will be extradited to the USA on charges related to the publication of government lies relating to, among others, the Iraq war. Donate to Julian's legal costs here; https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/assangeappeal/ Donate to the UK campaign here; https://dontextraditeassange.com/donate/ Sign up here if ypu want to receive a text message on the upcoming hearing, when the date is known - https://dontextraditeassange.com/day-x/ Lobby your MP; https://dontextraditeassange.com/email-mp/ Other ways to help; http://www.freeassangeemergencytoolkit.com/

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