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The Australian ABC is broken. This week we in #Australia got blanket coverage of who came second at Eurovision. Yet the national broadcaster is maintaining an eerie vow of silence about this particular screening Cannes. A movie about the world's most high profile Australian is seemingly of zero interest to Australians. 🙃

The French global network can report on it - in English - but the ABC? *crickets

france24.com/en/live-news/2025

FRANCE 24 · 'Recovered' Assange promotes Cannes documentaryBy France 24

The movie "The Six Billion Dollar Man" will premiere on May 21 in Cannes.

The film tells the story of the multi-country policial and legal persecution of Julian Assange.

It was previously set to world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, however, it was pulled from the lineup due to "significant and unexpected developments".

deadline.com/2024/12/julian-as

#CraigMurray | The Curious Case of #MahmoudKhalil

"But it has not been much discussed that the central legal issue in the case – whether non-US citizens have First Amendment rights or whether free speech only applies to US citizens – is not an innovation by the Trump administration.

That non-US citizens are not protected by the First Amendment was the key issue pursued by Biden’s Justice Department in the extradition hearings of Julian Assange."

"I was told by Resistance-linked contacts in Lebanon that not only was Khalil not viewed as pro-Resistance to Israel while there, he was believed to be involved in UK government attempts to undermine the Assad regime by promotion of jihadist groups."

craigmurray.org.uk/archives/20

Craig Murray · The Curious Case of Mahmoud Khalil - Craig MurrayTwo key points the discussion has mostly missed: 1) It has been a bipartisan Justice Department policy for years to attempt to establish that the First Amendment does not apply to non-US citizens 2) Why has the Trump administration chosen Mahmoud Khalil out of thousands of potential victims; about as problematic a test case as […]

Former Spanish military man who spied on Assange for the CIA is investigated for falsifying evidence.

Since his arrest in September 2019, David Morales has denied any involvement in the wiretaps against Assange.

Months later, he reversed his statements and told the first judge to oversee the case at the National Court that it was the former Ecuadorian ambassador to London who had ordered him to record the conversations.

mediafaro.org/article/20250313

El País · Former Spanish military man who spied on Assange for the CIA is investigated for falsifying evidence.By José María Irujo
#Spain#Assange#UK