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Democracy Now! 2024-02-23 Friday

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Democracy Now!

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for February 23, 2024; Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assange’s Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism; “Governments Are Trying to Frighten Journalists”: Fmr. Guardian Head Alan Rusbridger on Assange Case; Haitian Asylum Seekers Take Biden Admin to Court for Racial Discrimination, Rights Violations

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support. From New York, this is Demi.

0:15.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:26.0

This expedition request is for espionage, which is a political offense and that's prohibited

0:31.0

by the terms of the treaty.

0:32.0

So the very treaty that provides the basis for this expedition request prohibits the kind of

0:36.7

request that's been made for Julian.

0:38.5

A critical hearing at the British High Court in the extradition case of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

0:45.2

wraps up in London.

0:47.1

We'll speak with Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson and with Alan Rusperger, the former editor of the Guardian newspaper, which worked with WikiLeaks

0:56.6

to expose US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

1:00.8

Then Haitian asylum seekers go to court over abuse by federal agents of the US-Mexico border.

1:07.0

So the whole lawsuit is really in solidarity of the people who came and asked for safety.

1:15.2

The people that the administration have decided to disappear by expelling and

1:20.2

supporting them, by salencing their voices and their stories.

1:25.0

We'll speak with Gerlin Joseph, head of the Haitian Bridge Alliance,

1:29.0

so that in more coming up.

1:37.0

Welcome to Democracy Now.

1:40.0

Democracy Now. The War and Peace Report.

1:42.2

I'm Amy Goodman, the UN and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

1:43.2

The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA,

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