<story><title>Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-four/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>This is the article Day 4. For a bit of context, from the article Day 1:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;in the courtroom itself, &lt;i&gt;Julian Assange is confined at the back of the court behind a bulletproof glass screen&lt;/i&gt;. He made the point several times during proceedings that this makes it very difficult for him to see and hear the proceedings. The magistrate, Vanessa Baraitser, chose to interpret this with studied dishonesty as a problem caused by the very faint noise of demonstrators outside, as opposed to a problem caused by Assange being locked away from the court in a massive bulletproof glass box.&lt;p&gt;Now &lt;i&gt;there is no reason at all for Assange to be in that box, designed to restrain extremely physically violent terrorists.&lt;/i&gt; He could sit, as a defendant at a hearing normally would, in the body of the court with his lawyers. But the cowardly and vicious Baraitser has refused repeated and persistent requests from the defence for Assange to be allowed to sit with his lawyers.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-four/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>The conclusion seems foregone, all that is left is to let them create a record of how the process itself was the punishment. British justice appears to have become fickle, cynical, partisan, and self dealing. These are of course the views of only one person who is also a supporter of the accused, but the behaviour of the magistrate as described is of someone without accountability.</text></comment>