3/10/23 Gabriel Shipton on his Brother Julian Assange’s Fight for Freedom

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Scott talks to Gabriel Shipton, the brother of Julian Assange, about the documentary he recently produced about his family’s fight for Assange’s freedom. Scott and Shipton discuss the film, what it portrays, who it features and why it’s called Ithaka. They then discuss some of the crimes Assange exposed, which would eventually land him in HMP Belmarsh as the world’s most famous political prisoner. Discussed on the show: Ithaka (IMDb) Ithaka, a poem read by Sean Connery “Alternative Facts: How the media failed Julian Assange” (Harper’s Magazine) The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer Philip Weiss is the long-time editor of Mondoweiss.net. Follow him on Twitter @PhilWeiss. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Welcome the show how are you doing? Yeah I'm great. Thanks for having me on. I'm very happy to have you here and listen last night I watched this new documentary that you guys are touring around the country screening. It's called Ithaca and it's the story of your brother's imprisonment
1:06.5	but also especially your fathers and I guess your effort to get him sprung from the Belmarch prison where he's in Britain right now,
1:16.0	I guess awaiting a ruling on an appeal over an American extradition request.
1:25.0	They want to prosecute your brother under the Espionage Act.
1:28.0	So I guess can we start with that?
1:31.3	Where exactly are we in the process?
1:35.4	Because the movie ends with a big win,
1:38.6	but it wasn't a big enough one.
1:41.6	Yeah, so Julian is coming up to his fourth year in Belmarsh
1:46.8	maximum security prison just outside of London that'll be four years on the
1:52.3	11th of April. He's there, he's not serving a sentence, he's not
1:57.6	convicted, he's what they call a remand prisoner. There are only one of there's two to remand prisoners in
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