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The Swedish prosecutor out to get Julian Assange, described as “overzealous” in the prestigious German weekly, Die Zeit, once advocated that men accused of mistreating women be locked up even without a conviction to give the accusing women time and space to think.

There is heated debate in Sweden whether the hard line taken against Assange by the state attorney is right, the paper says.

“Not an international conspiracy of secret services, but an overzealous state attorney is regarded as the main reason for (Assange’s) arrest.

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December 6, 2010

A leading churchman in West Papua has called on President Obama to withdraw US cooperation with Indonesia’s elite ‘Kopassus’ forces, after finding himself on a military ‘enemies’ list. Kopassus soldiers murdered a previous ‘enemy’, Papuan leader Theys Eluay, in 2001.

Reverend Benny Giay, an outspoken defender of human rights in West Papua, has found himself on a list of ‘enemies’, which appears to have been leaked by Indonesia’s Kopassus forces. US assistance to Kopassus was renewed in July this year.

The Australian and Melbourne Indymedia Collective stand in solidarity with Wikileaks and its spokesperson Julian Assange and condemn their unprecedented persecution. In making this statement we join other members of the IMC networks including IMC Brazil and IMC Sucre. Around the world and Australia people are joining the movement in support of Wikileaks. Australia wide protests have been called in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart. A new website has been site up too promote these rallies at www.rally4wikileaks.com Globally resistance is taking the form of over 500 websites mirroring Wikileaks and Operation Payback taking down a bank that froze Julian Assange’s defence fund. The Indymedia Network is hosting one of these Mirrors. As Assange has now been taken into custody and Wikileaks sustained ever more attacks on its ability to function, it is not overstating it to say the freedom of whole internet is now at stake. Will we allow Wikileaks and Julian Assange to be destroyed for daring to tell the world the truth about wars and the criminal deeds of governments around the world?

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The Cairns Post
 
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London and will face Court on unbelievable charges after he exposed rank lying by the US and many other governments about security, diplomacy, and our unending wars.
 
Wikileaks has nailed the Emporer’s new clothes.  Now it has been proven out of our leaders own mouths that current wars are based on lies, and future wars are being planned.  Julian Assange has done us all a favour.  He needs and deserves our protection.
 

A group of Internet activists calling themselves Operation Payback have taken credit for shutting down the website of a bank that earlier Monday froze funds belonging to WikiLeaks.

Announcing its successful hack on a Twitter account, the group declared, "We will fire at anyone that tries to censor WikiLeaks."

Earlier in the day, Swiss bank PostFinance issued a statement announcing that it had frozen 31,000 euro ($41,000 US) in an account set up as a legal defense fund for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Hi all, we - Indymedia Brazil - published a support statement to
Wikileaks and Julian Assange on our website, you can read the english
version here:
http://prod.midiaindependente.org/en/blue/2010/12/481965.shtml

IMC Sucre have done the same
http://sucre.indymedia.org/es/2010/12/46513.shtml

And other Indymedias are working on doing the same thing.

Would be great if more indymedias could do it and show support to
wikileaks. Julian Assange is on his way to meet UK police which has a
arrest warrant for him. There is a great possibility if he is arrest he

You may have heard the story in the media about the paper company Australian Paper attempting to force it's staff at it's Maryvale Mill to work on Christmas Day. And surprise, surprise the "Fair Work" Australia Commissioner (thankyou Gillard and Rudd for keeping Work Choices going, just renaming it) is ready to fine staff if they don't comply.

( For a more detailed explanation - http://www.theage.com.au/national/workers-must-volunteer-for-christmas-o...)

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