In Defense Of Julian Assange: Attorney Renata Avila; and The Prosecution of Julian Assange – CUNY School of Law and UCLA

In Defense Of Julian Assange: Attorney Renata Avila

We continue our ongoing coverage of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in confinement at Londons high-security Belmarsh prison. Julian is fighting extradition to the United States on 18 charges, including violating the Espionage Act and conspiring to hack government computers. As listeners will recall, the charges are in connection with Wikileaks release of thousands of secret cables in 2010.

Guest – Renata Avila, a member of the Julian Assangelegal team. Renata is an international Human Rights lawyer from Guatemala, specializing in preserving human rights during the next wave of tech challenges. She is a Board member for Creative Commons, the Common Action Forum and is a Global Trustee of the Think Tank Digital Future Society. She is also a member of the WEFs Global Future Council on Human Rights and Technology and a Steering Committee Member of the Information Society Advisory Council for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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The Prosecution of Julian Assange – CUNY School of Law and UCLA

We listen to two presentations from a panel discussion among leading journalists, attorneys and human rights defenders as the extradition trial in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to begin.

The first speaker is lead attorney Barry Pollack representing Julian Assange speaking at The Prosecution of Julian Assange forum at UCLA.

We then hear from Glen Fordspeaking at the CUNY School of Law, Glen is the Executive editor, Black Agenda Report. He’s a broadcast, print and web pioneer and founding member of the Washington chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.

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