David McBride court appeal set for March 2025. His laywers need to cover costs, please donate: Help free David McBride from prison - David vs Goliath
Richard Boyle criminal trial set for November 2025.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28020265
> We must fix the #PIDact. Government whistleblowers like David McBride, Richard Boyle are not protected by the current legislation and are gaoled instead. > > "As an ADF lawyer, McBride was a respected expert on the rules of engagement, and he also taught the PID Act to soldiers." > > Paul Gregoire explains the David McBride case in the below article, extensively quoting McBride's lawyer Eddie Lloyd > https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/mcbrides-appeal-is-in-jeopardy-as-the-respected-lawyer-needs-finances-to-fund-it/ >
Former military lawyer David McBride has won the right to appeal his conviction for blowing the whistle on Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Cathy Vogan reports from Canberra for Consortium News. https://youtu.be/YtjQlwzRxJ4 By Cathy Vogan in Canberra, Australia Special to Consortium News
David needs money for his appeal. Please donate to his legal fund if you can: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride
Former military lawyer David McBride has won the right to appeal his conviction for blowing the whistle on Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Cathy Vogan reports from Canberra for Consortium News. https://youtu.be/YtjQlwzRxJ4 By Cathy Vogan in Canberra, Australia Special to Consortium News
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/14413246
> Please support David's fight in court if you can: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride
Former military lawyer David McBride has won the right to appeal his conviction for blowing the whistle on Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Cathy Vogan reports from Canberra for Consortium News. https://youtu.be/YtjQlwzRxJ4 By Cathy Vogan in Canberra, Australia Special to Consortium News
Please support David's fight in court if you can: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride
Cracks in the wall are showing when reporters blow the whistle on bias in their own news room!
Why are we allowing biased newspaper editors to frame our thinking? They're anti-genocide marches.
Julian Assange is to take part in this hearing, organised by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg...
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/21795594
> When? > > Oct 1st, 8:30am CEST > --- > --- > > More info on the event: > > https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-to-attend-a-pace-hearing-in-strasbourg-on-his-detention-and-conviction-and-their-chilling-effect-on-human-rights > >
Except when it can't make any calls because antenna firmware not having the right updates or some bs like that. This industry is a hot mess and I'm about to tap out.
Yea. That's part of it. Keep reading.
Honestly, I'm sick of this industry and wasting my money on them. I'll make do with a new $100 phone from the post office in case I need to make an emergency call. 000 will still work even without a sim.
Over many years the providers & industry have been allowed to manufacture the problem and they now get the opportunity to sell customers the solution with new handsets, all whilst harming competition, increasing profits and cutting costs by shutting down the 3G network.
How is this legal?! So the likes of Telstra are blocking otherwise functional phones?
With Senator David Shoebridge & lawyer Eddie Lloyd.
David McBride, a military lawyer, was convicted and imprisoned for his disclosures to the ABC, Australia's national broadcaster, regarding serious misconduct by the country's Special Forces in Afghanistan.
On the very day McBride was sentenced, Australia's Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles, belatedly released an unclassified 3-year report from a body called 'The Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel'. He claimed that the release had been delayed, pending advice from the Office of Special Investigator, on whether the report “would, or could reasonably be expected to prejudice legal proceedings - specifically current and future war crimes prosecutions”.
The panel was to look into how cultural and professional reforms were being implemented in the Australian military, as had been the case for four years, and then in accordance with recommendations laid out in the 2020 Brereton Report, an inquiry into alleged crimes, including war crimes, committed by some Special Forces between 2005 and 2016. Brereton recommended that 19 soldiers be investigated by police for the "murder" of 39 Afghan prisoners and unarmed civilians, and the cruel treatment of two others. Besides McBride, only one soldier has been prosecuted to date, and oddly enough, McBride's case was neither cited as “current” by the Minister of Defence, nor by the Oversight Panel. Nor has its lengthy report had much attention from the media.
Oh, boo-hoo. His kids can inherit the home they grew up in and buy their own, by this time not over-priced, home once they've the income.
And this bill is going to ban doxing, right? Right??
Wasn't doxing illegal now?
It's really not appropriate for a politician, the police minister to boot, to be calling anyone an 'idiot' in the same breath as demanding respect for the police. It's the sort of language I'd accept from a truck driver, not from a top politician.
He is setting the tone of the discussion in an extremely problematic way by dehumanising/othering those desparately trying to stop lethal weapons sales used in crimes against humanity, while he normalises the gathering of war profiteers.
I'm extremely disappainted by this government's policing policy.
"There's nothing but disrespect being shown from some protesters who want to behave like idiots and police will deal with you," he said.
our police minister, everyone.
PSA: respect has to be earned. An industry that arms crimes against humanity and genocide does not deserve respect.
The vic govt is funding this arms expo.
A lot of anti-protest rhetoric from the goverment here. Protesting is a fundamental democratic right.
Good to here Max Chandler Mather out there again showing some solidarity.
agreed. Is Ferguson always like this? Max did well not getting pushed around.
Five years after the CIVICUS global rights monitor downgraded Australia from an open society to a civic space that has narrowed, it’s revealed no improvements under federal Labor.
Does this mean the articles will read less like a tabloid and more like news again?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24046152
> Today, the 22nd of August 2024, marks 100 days since army lawyer David McBride was imprisoned in Canberra for exposing war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan. > > David stood up for truth and integrity, yet now he endures death threats and solitary confinement, while those responsible remain free. > > This is not how we should treat our whistleblowers in Australia! ⚖️ > > Demand justice! 📢 Take Action: > > - Contact Mark Dreyfus or your local MP today to express your support for David. > > - Create and share a social media post or a short video using the hashtag #SpeakUp4McBride to spread the word. > > - Donate to support David’s legal appeal to help get him out of jail: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride > > - Hang the provided poster in a high-visibility location, take a photo, and share it online to encourage others to join the movement. > > - 👍 Like, 💬 comment, and ↪️ share this message! > > #FreeMcBride. #Justice4Afghanistan.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24046152
> Today, the 22nd of August 2024, marks 100 days since army lawyer David McBride was imprisoned in Canberra for exposing war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan. > > David stood up for truth and integrity, yet now he endures death threats and solitary confinement, while those responsible remain free. > > This is not how we should treat our whistleblowers in Australia! ⚖️ > > Demand justice! 📢 Take Action: > > - Contact Mark Dreyfus or your local MP today to express your support for David. > > - Create and share a social media post or a short video using the hashtag #SpeakUp4McBride to spread the word. > > - Donate to support David’s legal appeal to help get him out of jail: https://chuffed.org/project/davidmcbride > > - Hang the provided poster in a high-visibility location, take a photo, and share it online to encourage others to join the movement. > > - 👍 Like, 💬 comment, and ↪️ share this message! > > #FreeMcBride. #Justice4Afghanistan.
Ian should be replaced.
AFP child abusers. Who cares about the cost. This operation was harmful to the community and to the child, who has a right to/needed proper education around ethics & morals not this cloak & dagger manipulation.
> But while the Albanese government soaked up the plaudits for engineering Assange’s long overdue return, several of the signs on display that evening hinted that not everything was well on the home front. “Assange, McBride, Boyle”, offered one. Another particularly well-worn sign had the demand: “Fix the PID Act”. The WikiLeaks publisher may be free, but the Public Interest Disclosure Act – the whistleblower protection law for federal public servants in Australia – remains broken, as recent high-profile cases demonstrate all too well.
Gabriel Shipton on his brother’s last shot at freedom.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is at risk of suicide if the UK High Court next month rejects his final appeal against extradition to the US, his lawyer warns.
Some context:
https://michaelwest.com.au/whistleblower-david-mcbride-pleads-guilty/
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/the-leadership-rewarded-and-encouraged-dishonesty-20231106-p5ehuu
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/17/left-with-no-defense-mcbride-plea
Julian Assange's supporters say a date has been set for the WikiLeaks founder's final appeal against extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.
Julian Assange's supporters say a date has been set for the WikiLeaks founder's final appeal against extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.
Julian Assange's supporters say a date has been set for the WikiLeaks founder's final appeal against extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.
Julian Assange's supporters say a date has been set for the WikiLeaks founder's final appeal against extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.
Stefania Maurizi, John Goetz and Christian Mihr discussed in Georg Büchner Buchladen (bookshop) in Berlin about: “What is the Purpose of Journalism if War
Stefania Maurizi, John Goetz and Christian Mihr discussed in Georg Büchner Buchladen (bookshop) in Berlin about: “What is the Purpose of Journalism if War Crimes Are Not Allowed to be Published?”.
I think this is a good question for discussion. What do you think?
Previously classified papers detail how the US embassy in Canberra responded to WikiLeaks’ release of embassy cables in 2010 and ‘sensationalist’ local media
The United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a final appeal hearing that will be held on Feb. 20-21, 2024.
